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DeadJericho Feb 19, 2022 @ 11:42am
Games are downloading/archiving to the wrong drive
right now ive got a very big update for a game on a nvme being trashed out on a mechanical storage drive.

my game is installed on C:
steam folders has C: as the default drive

why is the game updating files in downloading/archives on D: ?
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Jaunitta 🌸 Feb 19, 2022 @ 4:00pm 
Steam>settings>downloads> downloads manager>set C using gear> as default and then a star added to C?
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crunchyfrog Feb 19, 2022 @ 4:06pm 
After you've done as Juanitta points out, if it still persists make sure you have MORE than adequate space on your intended drive.

Because many people fall foul of this issue.

Steam doesn't like anything more tahn 90% of a drive being used, as it starts to slowdown downloads and behave wonkily. Also to make this worse many people overlook that downloads are encrypted and compressed. What this means in this case, is that you need to allow up to THREE times for any game to download.

So for example, if you have a 1TB drive and you've used 80% (800GB) you're fine and have 100GB left to play with comfortably.

However, if you then go to download a game that is 80GB, then you won't have enough space, as you need to allow up to thtree times that.

So make sure you're not doing this as that's the sort of thing that happens.
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DeadJericho Feb 19, 2022 @ 8:38pm 
there is a star next to C drive in those settings.

it might be the space??
patch was 10gb for cyberpunk 2077
drive has 76.1GB of 930GB left on it.
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MagicMight Feb 20, 2022 @ 1:01am 
If it is a delta-patch then a part of the installed game will need to be unpacked for the patch to be applied. In theory if your Cyberpunk files eat up 100 GB and the patch is 10 GB, you'd need 110 GB free space at the worst case, depending on their file structure.

Steam calculates this and if the free space is insufficient it makes use of another drive as download cache. Though after the whole operation is completed you will be given the space back and the game will still be installed on the intended drive.
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crunchyfrog Feb 24, 2022 @ 10:38pm 
Originally posted by DeadJericho:
there is a star next to C drive in those settings.

it might be the space??
patch was 10gb for cyberpunk 2077
drive has 76.1GB of 930GB left on it.
76 left out of 930GB is above that 90% so you should fix that.
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