Disk Space and Strange Game Updates

[Sven2006]

Since a few days the Updates for games are a bit strange as i only need to download a little bit (10-500mb) but around 40 GB need to be installed(the thing the Hard drive does). This has never happened before and now 60GB of my previously free Hard Drive Space have magicallly disappeared (from 90GB free to 30GB free) in a day. My friend has the exact same problem.
Why is that and what can i do to fix that?

[Iceira]

Could be Pre-shader cache to all them games you have installed. and sense you dont explan how big disk is and how many games there is.

And in the end steam client and game devs update will happend, and anything lesser then 200gb free on 2TB disk is seen as very little space.

Just so you get it many here dont even see a 4TB disk as big anymore, it also depend who you ask ofc.


sense games is now 100gb as common, things dont added up with 2TB disk even, you run out of space fast.

thats the problem here, you talk about things under 100gb, im not so sure other will even reply or help with to little room, and its soon seen as user own problem.


and dont be angry at me, to many missing informtion to even know if you have multi disk, there is alot of issue with steam post like this.

[Sven2006]

My disk is 1TB games made up about 500GB of that, Most games about 20-30GB, 2 at 70GB.
Also i never had problems with disk space. I was looking through my files 3 days ago 90GB free; 30 minutes ago its 30GB. I installed nothing in that time.

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Sven2006:

My disk is 1TB games made up about 500GB of that, Most games about 20-30GB, 2 at 70GB.
Also i never had problems with disk space. I was looking through my files 3 days ago 90GB free; 30 minutes ago its 30GB. I installed nothing in that time.

yeap and it dont matter, steam client and game updates is part of service. make more room, or you could be in more trouble if another patch get release, ask any helper here they can tell you dont run out of free work space.

and its here 10% of 1TB drive can fail then game is 100gb, and if they made a full DL as patch. + os require work space.

any IT tech person should know this, win7 from the past did RED color bar at disk. there was a reason for this.

[Sven2006]

ok disk space question sorted, but those update issues, is that a universal problem or is it just my pc, because they also dont install right now and get stuck halfway through

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Sven2006:

ok disk space question sorted, but those update issues, is that a universal problem or is it just my pc, because they also dont install right now and get stuck halfway through

as i said could be pre-shader cache, that part of vulkan driver, and optimized per game, its new graphic takeover, and afaik know you will loose the argument already its so well test even on old game title that run more smooth FPS, as i said its a hopeless to even turn it off, then gpu card will work even harder, im not so sure, any will recommend to even turn it off anymore. you need a game bug with it. and thats more to proof its vulkan that fail here, untill they fix it.

see steam setting

ps.
and i will not recommend to turn it off, your gpu card will have to deal with old outdate ways then.

[Sven2006]

im not trying to argument anything, i just wanted to know what was going on and if it was a bug thats going to be fixed

[Iceira]

You can try steam support, could be interesting in how they will reply on such. dont rube it in here with steam reply of this , see it more a help to other steam user that stuggle with the many updates and size in the end, and maybe it will be they are not in controll over GPU and game devs update.

maybe its this you seek as information.

[Nx Machina]

Use Treesize free to see exactly what is installed on your hdd. There may be files leftover in the download folder of Steam.

Secondly small updates not related to an actual updates for games is Shader cache for Vulkan and OpenGL. Turn it off if you do not want to use it. Steam > Settings > Shader Pre-Cache.

(Note: Previously they were hidden).

And finally developers use Delta patching which means only necessary files are downloaded, then unpacked and replaced in the actual game install.

If you mouseover while an actual game update is happening it will show the size of the update on the left and the amount of the game being patched on the right. For example if a game is 40gb installed, it will show how much of the game is actually being patched.