Storage - How to calculate total space (GB) required for all the games in my steam library?

[TheMaster1]

Title. Any fast way to do this or do I have to do it manually?

[nullable]

No, and you'd had a hard time doing it manually as well as the sizes of games change over time with updates and patches. Everything is a pretty rough estimate until the game is actually installed on disk.

[Cathulhu]

And it only gets harder when DLC is involved.

[TheMaster1]

Damn, thanks for responses.

(I'm gonna have to go the safe way and get 50 petabytes of storage then :'D Nah I think 3 TB might do. Ark, GTA and skyrim alone are like 500gb tho, ouch)

[khalil]

seems like someone is preparing for an apocalypse :o Also if you happen to be a millionaire, I'd recommend getting it on SSD

[rawWwRrr]

If you select all of your uninstalled games in your Steam library and try to install them all at once, Steam will calculate the necessary disk space that will be required for them. Add that to the total disk space reported by Windows on the library folder and that should give you a rough idea of how large a hard drive you will need, assuming this was what you originally intended to do.

[nullable]

Publicado originalmente por TheMaster1:

Damn, thanks for responses.

(I'm gonna have to go the safe way and get 50 petabytes of storage then :'D Nah I think 3 TB might do. Ark, GTA and skyrim alone are like 500gb tho, ouch)

Is your goal to install every game in your library? I mean the heart wants what the heart wants, but it's not a necessity or requirement to do that, and no real tangible benefits that I can perceive.

[tacoshy]

Publicado originalmente por DetErSværtAtHoldeØjneneÅbne:

seems like someone is preparing for an apocalypse :o Also if you happen to be a millionaire, I'd recommend getting it on SSD

for most games a SSD makes no sense compared to cheaper performance HDD like the WD Gold. In many games the difference in loading times is less then 1 second and it others doesnt matter as you still have to wait for others until a round starts.

You dont have to be a millionair to get all games on a SSD. A 2TB Samsung 860 Evo cost around 250$.
But makes no sense unless you're an enthusiast (I got a 4TB SSD + a 2nd as external)


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You also got to leave enough space for updates etc.

[TheMaster1]

Publicado originalmente por DetErSværtAtHoldeØjneneÅbne:

seems like someone is preparing for an apocalypse :o Also if you happen to be a millionaire, I'd recommend getting it on SSD

Obviously an SSD is a must. Sadly I'm not a millionaire but I have my (gaming) priorities for money-spending above all else :D I'm getting the 970 samsung evo (6th best in market), which is an overkill but ♥♥♥♥ it :D

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Publicado originalmente por Brockenstein:

Is your goal to install every game in your library? I mean the heart wants what the heart wants, but it's not a necessity or requirement to do that, and no real tangible benefits that I can perceive.

I know I know, but the heart does desire that haha. I'm gonna be spending quite a ton of cash on a new computer for the first time ever and one thing i always wanted to do for years now is that if i want to play something, i can just double click and play. No installing no nothing because that always puts me off.

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Publicado originalmente por rawWwRrr:

If you select all of your uninstalled games in your Steam library and try to install them all at once, Steam will calculate the necessary disk space that will be required for them. Add that to the total disk space reported by Windows on the library folder and that should give you a rough idea of how large a hard drive you will need, assuming this was what you originally intended to do.

MVP, thanks!


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Publicado originalmente por tacoshy:

for most games a SSD makes no sense compared to cheaper performance HDD

Well one game I play is Rome Total War 2 and that game NEEDS an SSD because currently loading times and end-turn times (altho the latter depends more on CPU) are insane.

I have games of every type so its bound to be very, very handy.

[TheMaster1]

In case anyone was wondering. I did calculate how much I need thanks to rawWwRrr.

I'll need ~2.1TB (without counting DLC, mods, etc. of uninstalled games). So yea rounded up to 3TB as my initial prediction. FML and my wallet :D #pcmasterrace