Not enough disk space to update a game

[🍻 [T]rAmADOL_ 🍷]

(update is 42 GB , but I have 170 GB)

i tried to clean download cache and verify r6siege files . please help

[Darren]

Some games require significantly more space to update because they have to unpack and patch a lot of compressed game files. It should to less space for a clean reinstall (since that'll just download the latest compressed files) albeit more bandwidth.

[🍻 [T]rAmADOL_ 🍷]

Originally posted by Darren:

Some games require significantly more space to update because they have to unpack and patch a lot of compressed game files. It should to less space for a clean reinstall (since that'll just download the latest compressed files) albeit more bandwidth.

(update is 42 GB , but I have 270 GB)

[Darren]

Originally posted by 🍻 F0rest 🍷:

Originally posted by Darren:

Some games require significantly more space to update because they have to unpack and patch a lot of compressed game files. It should to less space for a clean reinstall (since that'll just download the latest compressed files) albeit more bandwidth.

(update is 42 GB , but I have 270 GB)

The download for the update is 42 GB. And how big is the game itself? 100GB? How much is it when you uncompress all of the compressed archive files? 300GB? 500GB?

At which point you'd need potentially up to 542GB of space to hold the uncompressed files plus the 42 GB of updates. Now obviously not every update is going to need to uncompress every file, and there are ways to reduce the amount of extra diskspace it's going to use. Whether R6S does any of those things no idea. But I can see it's definitely possible for it to use more than 270GB of diskspace for an update.

Now this could also be a bug (where the patcher is failing to read the free space correctly) no idea I don't play the game and so don't know the specifics.

[Iceira]

Multi harddisk.
or multi steam lib and default is full, and that mean "Not enough disk space to update a game"

[🍻 [T]rAmADOL_ 🍷]

Originally posted by Iceira:

Multi harddisk.
or multi steam lib and default is full, and that mean "Not enough disk space to update a game"

yes bro i have two hard disk and steam is on my main hdd and the game on second hdd

what should i do ?!

[Karien]

All you can do is make space by deleting stuff in the main disk or uninstall and reinstall which may or may not work.

[🍻 [T]rAmADOL_ 🍷]

Originally posted by Karien:

All you can do is make space by deleting stuff in the main disk or uninstall and reinstall which may or may not work.

I MAKE 600GB free space right now
my internet is poor and i cant uninstall and reinstall it bro

[Iceira]

make steam lib default to the right disk that actual has the free room.

ps.
aslong default point at disk with no free space then steam keep say "Not enough disk space to update a game" and it dont make it better if that the disk with the game you might want to move or free up if you still want that disk to current game.

see option with right click a game with propertise, the local files then move other game or current.

ps.
just made Multi disk to test this.
then 2 harddisk, option under Local files is there, move installed folder to other disk.
this option is not there if you dont have steam multi lib ( and if you still want to keep other disk as default )

[Xiumeng]

I seem to have the same issue. Have you solved the problem?

Originally posted by 🍻 TrAmADOL_ 🍷:

(update is 42 GB , but I have 170 GB)

i tried to clean download cache and verify r6siege files . please help

[76561199001520340]

I've tried everything that steam recommended and plenty more the only solution ive got was deleteing the game and re downloading it ive had to do it 3 times and it seems everytime there is an update quite annoying dont know if anyone else has had the problem but if you have a different solution please share

[Iceira]

Originally posted by dboy60118:

I've tried everything that steam recommended and plenty more the only solution ive got was deleteing the game and re downloading it ive had to do it 3 times and it seems everytime there is an update quite annoying dont know if anyone else has had the problem but if you have a different solution please share

Things have change sense 2020, new release games today is 150gb game installation, this means even more spare free space is required then needed.

you also needf free space after game installation if patch is released.

and it still being seen as have 200gb free space s games do not have update issue. ( depend on game game size on 100gb. and lesser

[Stephanie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.