I have 1 TB storage space but Steam cant download a 80 GB Game

[Dragon Fire]

As the title says I should still have 1 TB free storage space on my hard disk (G:), until now i have been using my hard disk (E:) also with 1 TB, but since i only got 60 GB left on my (E:) and want to download a Game that has 80 GB i was going to use my second hard disk for that. But everytime i try to install the game Steam says there isnt enough storage space, i tested to download a small Game only 900 MB befor on (G:) and that worked fine.

So is there a way to fix this? or could it be that my hard disk (G:) doesnt really exists even tough my PC and Steam recognize it?

[crunchyfrog]

GHow are you choosing to sleect this drive?

Are you going through Steam settings and choosing where to download this game? Because under Steam settings you should be able to choose whichever drive it recognises.

If it's not coming up there, then there's a problem. Either the drive isn't recognised or isn't formatted correctly or something.

Check under steam settings also that there IS actually that amount of space spare too.

Steam downloads work a little differently and because they're encryped and compressed, they often need up to three times the total file size to do their thing (in other words that 80GB game might need three times that space).

[Dragon Fire]

I added the drive over the Steam settings and told the game to install on that drive, so Steam recognises it.

In the Steam settings there are 935 GB free space left on (G:).

I should also say that i told Steam that it should take (G:) for my Standard drive, but maybe this only counts after restarting Steam or repairing the Laibrary?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

How much space is on the drive that Steam is located on?

[Dragon Fire]

Steam itself is on my (E:) so there are 60 GB left there

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Fire:

Steam itself is on my (E:) so there are 60 GB left there

Make the downloads folder a symlink to your G drive.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

[Iceira]

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Fire:

I added the drive over the Steam settings and told the game to install on that drive, so Steam recognises it.

In the Steam settings there are 935 GB free space left on (G:).

I should also say that i told Steam that it should take (G:) for my Standard drive, but maybe this only counts after restarting Steam or repairing the Laibrary?

Sounds like wrong default steam lib at cdrev and it cant fit there, wipe that game folder, if you dont get option with right free disk then taht partitions is not added to steam library and it still see cdrev as only option , not enough feee space. you will never geta 80gb game in a 60gb free left. then cdrev is all what steam can see.

Other test right click that mini game and select move to other disk if you cant do that then steam do not have multi blibrarys added.


ps.
do note, we have seen disk fail,but you dont mention disk write error. ( chkdsk c: /r ) that is cdrev gl with other disk partions.

if you do check disk make sure you have time for very long test and repair disk ( imo over midnight ( skip /r will speed up the task )

[Dragon Fire]

I have downloaded another 6 GB Game without a problem on my (G:) and move a Game with ~500 MB from (E:) to (G:) succsesfully, but when i tried to move Battlefront II with 90 GB it said disk write error

I checked the disk and it said no errors found

[Dragon Fire]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Fire:

Steam itself is on my (E:) so there are 60 GB left there

Make the downloads folder a symlink to your G drive.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

:winterbunny2023:

You mean the download folder in Steam>steamapps>downloading?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

From it (on E) to your G drive.

[crunchyfrog]

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Fire:

I have downloaded another 6 GB Game without a problem on my (G:) and move a Game with ~500 MB from (E:) to (G:) succsesfully, but when i tried to move Battlefront II with 90 GB it said disk write error

I checked the disk and it said no errors found

So have you restarted Steam and it still persists?

[Dragon Fire]

Publicado originalmente por crunchyfrog:

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Fire:

I have downloaded another 6 GB Game without a problem on my (G:) and move a Game with ~500 MB from (E:) to (G:) succsesfully, but when i tried to move Battlefront II with 90 GB it said disk write error

I checked the disk and it said no errors found

So have you restarted Steam and it still persists?

Yes I still cant move Battlefront or install the Game i want, tried with ~60 GB wich also dindt work.

I am going to try to make a symlink, but since i dont know anything about it this could take a while.

[crunchyfrog]

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Fire:

Publicado originalmente por crunchyfrog:

So have you restarted Steam and it still persists?

Yes I still cant move Battlefront or install the Game i want, tried with ~60 GB wich also dindt work.

I am going to try to make a symlink, but since i dont know anything about it this could take a while.

Long shot but this isn't an external (ie USB) drive perchance?

If it is, make sure you aren't just plugging this is with Steam already started. As Steam doesn't tend to like that.

If you use SUB drives (like I do) it's good practice to ALWAYS shut your PC down fully each time (never use sleep mode) and make sure you plug your drive in and have Windows recognise it BEFORE you start Steam.

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Is your drive formatted in fat32? That will be the reason because you can't put a single file that is 5 gb or bigger on a fat32 file system as fat32 only allows up to 4gb for a single file. NTFS will allow a file of any size to be put on the drive.

Open up this pc and right click on the drive and chose properties. Then on the general tab. What is the listed file system.

Cause you will get an out of space error if trying to put a 5gb file or larger on a fat32 file system.

[crunchyfrog]

Publicado originalmente por SnakeFist:

Is your drive formatted in fat32? That will be the reason because you can't put a single file that is 5 gb or bigger on a fat32 file system as fat32 only allows up to 4gb for a single file. NTFS will allow a file of any size to be put on the drive.

Open up this pc and right click on the drive and chose properties. Then on the general tab. What is the listed file system.

I was wonmdering this too and was about to add this, but you beat me to it.

[Dragon Fire]

My drive is internal and the format is NTFS.

The drive is show with the 935 GB free space in my Explorer, Steam and an extra Programm i downloaded to check if the drive is real, so its seems the drive is real just like the space on it, but it wont accept big games.

I havent tested it yet, but i was also thinking about trying to download a game like Valorant on my (G:) drive to see if the problem is only with Steam