Dealing with limited space?

[Tyrion]

How do you guys manage your space when you ahve more games than hard drive space, and not enough money to get a new drive at the moment?

[upcoast]

You just install what you're playing now and have the rest on another pc , where ever there's space.

Tbh, hdd space is cheap compared to what 80GB drives used to be $80 yup $1 per GB, now you can get 2TB drives $70 usd or $90cdn even 3TB only hits $107 cdn and if you've got 2-3TB drives full of games maybe skip a game and buy a drive.

[CrazyDave]

install only the games you actively play. make sure your cloud saved games are saved. have a cache of flash drives or just get a large external drive like 2Tb and move steam to it.

[CursedPanther]

I have maybe 15 games installed now, and honestly there are way more than I can focus on already.

[SundownKid]

Originally posted by CrazyDave:

install only the games you actively play.

Basically.

[Andrius227]

If you can afford many games to run out of space, then you should be able to afford an extra drive too. Some games cost more than hard drives...

I myself have a 2TB HDD and 1TB SSD dedicated entirely to steam games and they are already half full.

[[☥] - CJ -]

do a disk cleanup regularly
clear browser history
delete windows system restore points now n then, or disable it entirely
Lower windows pagefile amount

Limit the installed games to ones you frequently play, or those that have a higher chance of being played.

Or limit the games you install to a certain size
Could always compress the drive, but thats kinda ehh..

bout all you can do really.
it would be in your best interest to save up for a 1TB or 2TB drive though, it comes in handy at times when you have to reinstall Windows or install a new OS.

[AussieBobby]

I have a 120gig ssd and have 39gig free.
Once upon a time games came on a disk and I can install the game quicker than I can down load it,and a click to uninstall it
Took battlefield bad company 2 for a spin last week.The good old days when you owned the game

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

I don't.
I have a 3 TB drive and there's no chance I need to have that many games installed right now.

[_I_]

get anotehr hdd
on a desktop its easy, most mobos have 6 sata ports
even if one is used by a cd/dvd/bd drive you can add 4 mroe hdds