allocating disk space eats all of my disk space

[how]

i was trying to download dragon ball xenoverse 2 but the allocating disk space took all of my space and i couldnt download it. is there any way to disable it?

[Cathulhu]

No. Steam only allocates what it actually needs to download and install the game.
The temporary space needed can be about twice as big as the actual game due to downloads being compressed and requiring to be decompressed after downloading.

Free some space to accomodate the needs of the download.
If you are that tight that you can't spare a few gigabytes, you really should clean up your drive(s).

[Iceira]

Steam dont take space game dont ask for, and its not steam faulth for you dont have free space.

its like stream user lack pc skill and it get worse with next gen, or should i say more user maybe now then backthen.

[how]

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

Steam dont take space game dont ask for, and its not steam faulth for you dont have free space.

its like stream user lack pc skill and it get worse with next gen, or should i say more user maybe now then backthen.

i had 25 GB of free space and the game needed only 18GB the download stopped at 50% because i ran out of space

[Iceira]

disk is red. in windows system information that a warning signal in lost performance and free space issue. ( old windows advice )

what will you do if a game update require full update, then you are in trouble. size matters and % free is dead 130gb SSD and 4TB disk you cant say 10% fix all , new disk has 20TB

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by AaronxDSwag:

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

Steam dont take space game dont ask for, and its not steam faulth for you dont have free space.

its like stream user lack pc skill and it get worse with next gen, or should i say more user maybe now then backthen.

i had 25 GB of free space and the game needed only 18GB the download stopped at 50% because i ran out of space

Yup, that is to be expected. For pretty much every single gamer in this world (including you), internet bandwidth is way more limited, than disk bandwidth. And for many of us (well, not me, but there's others less fortunate), internet traffic is limited!

So compressing downloads is a neccessity. So to download a game of 18GB, you need 18GB+the space needed for the compressed files. A factor of 2 is a good rule of thumb. Since downloads are compressed, you generally need less than twice the space, but that's why I said "rule of thumb" and not "strict requirement".

Either way, make space.

[how]

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

disk is red. in windows system information that a warning signal in lost performance and free space issue. ( old windows advice )

what will you do if a game update require full update, then you are in trouble. size matters and % free is dead 130gb SSD and 4TB disk you cant say 10% fix all , new disk has 20TB

the allocating disk space took all of the 18 GB but it also had to download another 18 because of the game and i know this because in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\downloading" it said 18GB and the game wasnt even downloaded yet

[how]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

No. Steam only allocates what it actually needs to download and install the game.
The temporary space needed can be about twice as big as the actual game due to downloads being compressed and requiring to be decompressed after downloading.

Free some space to accomodate the needs of the download.
If you are that tight that you can't spare a few gigabytes, you really should clean up your drive(s).

well i only have a 56 GB drive and i only can use 24 GB so steam should add an option to toggle off or on the disk space allocation or something like that

[Iceira]

maybe other option , buy bigger disk or external if its a laptop with usb3.0 or faster with 3.0+ port on pc today,

so many post with cheap disk , and rule is dont forget its turn on before steam startup.

[Zekiran]

Yes that is how disk space WORKS.

You need to clear up a LOT of space on that drive.

Don't install games on it. There is not enough space left. Even if it was PHYSICALLY able to load the rest of that download on it, it *wouldn't* be able to run well enough because there's no space left for the drive to function properly.

Keep around the same amount of your drive completely clear as you have RAM. If you're that close to filling it already, *stop* filling it. Get a bigger drive, get a second or third drive.

[Zekiran]

How do you "only have a 56 gig drive"?

Is this a computer that you share with other people? Drives *do not come that small*. Are you trying to run a game on a flash / usb drive?!

[how]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

How do you "only have a 56 gig drive"?

Is this a computer that you share with other people? Drives *do not come that small*. Are you trying to run a game on a flash / usb drive?!

here where i live the computers dont have that much disk space

[how]

also i dont know where is the other 30 GB at

[Zekiran]

Where exactly do you live, that drives somehow exist that are completely different than the rest of the world's?

[how]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Where exactly do you live, that drives somehow exist that are completely different than the rest of the world's?

Mexico, Navojoa Sonora. also not everyone has money for a computer with like 1 TB

[Iceira]

Originally posted by AaronxDSwag:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

No. Steam only allocates what it actually needs to download and install the game.
The temporary space needed can be about twice as big as the actual game due to downloads being compressed and requiring to be decompressed after downloading.

Free some space to accomodate the needs of the download.
If you are that tight that you can't spare a few gigabytes, you really should clean up your drive(s).

well i only have a 56 GB drive and i only can use 24 GB so steam should add an option to toggle off or on the disk space allocation or something like that

Never gonna happend, its debat to death. steam will never change it to many steam user keep forget disk free space. ( nothing is free. ) there are kids that dont know anything and they just click install because they can.