"Not Enough Disk Space" Error

[FishyFR]

So there's a lot to unpack here.

I already have the game installed on my SSD, with the appmanifest file, but Steam refuses to acknowledge it. Every time I try to download the game, it simply says there's not enough space. I deleted the PATCH files to make room on my SSD. There's only 100GB free on my SSD, and with GTA V being a 90GB game I can't have both the PATCH files and the files for my already installed copy of GTA V. And no, I can't free up anymore space. I've tried.

My main question is can I work around that storage error or am I just SOL?

[deathors]

So look, the steam ussually need 2 or 3 Times more space on disk, becausr update. . If you want to install GTA 5, buy 1 HDD with etc. 500gb. IT is not to much expensive.

[FishyFR]

Originally posted by 死者:

So look, the steam ussually need 2 or 3 Times more space on disk, becausr update. . If you want to install GTA 5, buy 1 HDD with etc. 500gb. IT is not to much expensive.

Yeah, I have a separate hard drive, but that doesn't help me. I want to put the game on my solid state drive, NOT my hard drive. There's absolutely no way the game needs another 90GB just to update, they're not releasing a new map or something.

[PurdooSix]

Some games require a lot of room to update. I often have 30-50 GB free on my SSD, where also most of my heavier games are at. And mostly it's still fine, I think F76 is my biggest game with about 64GB, it used to be a lot bigger few months ago. Though Im not using it via Steam. It all depends on the game and how exaclty it does the update.

But spesifically, you say you are both trying to download and install a game, and update some patch. Do you have Steam recognizing your installed game? It doesn't sound like it. You need to point Steam to it, not download the game again. 100 GB free is a lot for any update/patch. I mean so a lot, that nearly nothing should require so much.

Or if you have fast enough net, can you just delete the game and do actual full install, instead of update.

[FishyFR]

Originally posted by PurdooSix:

Some games require a lot of room to update. I often have 30-50 GB free on my SSD, where also most of my heavier games are at. And mostly it's still fine, I think F76 is my biggest game with about 64GB, it used to be a lot bigger few months ago. Though Im not using it via Steam. It all depends on the game and how exaclty it does the update.

But spesifically, you say you are both trying to download and install a game, and update some patch. Do you have Steam recognizing your installed game? It doesn't sound like it. You need to point Steam to it, not download the game again. 100 GB free is a lot for any update/patch. I mean so a lot, that nearly nothing should require so much.

Or if you have fast enough net, can you just delete the game and do actual full install, instead of update.

That's the main issue; my download speed is 3.5Mbps. Not megabytes, megabits. So downloading it again can't really be done for me.

Steam refuses to acknowledge the game's core files at all. It just simply says "NOT ENOUGH FREE DISK SPACE". I'm assuming it's saying that because I deleted the .patch files in order to put the game on my ssd. I could be wrong, but that's not the point anyways.

I've tried pointing Steam towards the game, but it won't recognize no matter what I do.

There isn't enough space for both the .patch files and the game files on the SSD at the same time.

If I "uninstall" the game, according to steam, then it downloads .patch files to reserve the space.
If I delete the .patch files to make space for the game files, then when I try to resume to download it gives me the full storage error.

I should also mention that I've tried validating the files, and it doesn't work. It says that 158 files need to be acquired, then downloads 100MB of Steam Common Redistributables which don't fix anything. That's as far as it'll go.

TL;DR I can't install GTA 5 cause I have to delete the .patch files to make room on my tiny SSD. Steam don't like that apparently.

[FishyFR]

For more info, the game will validate and run if I install it on my secondary hard drive

[Crazy Tiger]

Generally speaking you need twice the size available, otherwise it'll do what you mentioned.

There is no way around it, you must have enough space.