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Steam's default game location is inside the Steam folder. So that would naturally take up space. You have some orphaned temporary or incomplete downloads too. Either way it's pretty easy to find out where the data in Steam is and decide what you want to do with it, if anything.
Also Epic says it's using a few hundred megabytes, but if I look at the properties in the install folder it's 1.2GB so the numbers you may be reading, depending on where/how might yield some conflicting results. If I was also installing games within Epic's installation folder of course it would be much larger too.
The thing is, I did play some games in EpicGames and Uninstalling them I never had issue with it unlike steam, but for some reason if that's the case do you know any like solutions because it's kinda annoying you have to uninstall then install steam client just to have space...
Also I'm not sure I just knew that my steam client was on 40.1 GB when I was trying to free up some space.
So you must be including games you have installed
Or you need to tell us the file/folder you are talking about
Before that I don't have games installed besides VTUBER STUDIO, as for the folder I am not sure because I already uninstalled and installed steam again but my question is why is steam getting 40 GB in my space? ):
Wait residual game data?!
Residual data:
Steam only uninstalls a game. It does not uninstall workshop mods, nor mods from such websites as Nexus, therefore they remain in the game folder.
Secondly the downloads folder may not have being cleared and there are partial downloads remaining.
Use TreeSize free or similar program which will show what data is installed on your ssd or hdd.
Steam only uninstalls files that it created. If you had any mods that you manually installed they would not get removed when you uninstalled the game.
Also you may want to check the temporary downloads in steam. Sometimes after patching the temporary files are not deleted
You can use a program like treesize to quickly see were the excess data is in the folder.
Let us know what it was.
If you're a screenshot hoarder this can also quickly escalate as well
This kind of data is saved in c:\program files (x86)\steam\userdata You should see how much this directory takes up in terms of the 40GB of space
If you're looking for where games are installe that's going to be in the steamapps folder. Most other directories other than these 2 will not have significant data in them.
The largest folder you're likely to have is the "appcache" folder. This has a cache of all the images needed to render every game in your library in the client. From the list view, to the banners and background images in the library. Not even with 3900 games and even more DLC in my library the librarycache folder is only 2GB. Given there's about 70,000 game on steam, if you had every game ever released, this folder would be like 35GB if it scales linearly, So yes if you somehow owned literally every game ever released on steam you could, in theory, get to a 40GB install for the icon caches for all 70,000 games in your library. But this isn't something that most people would be dealing with. I'd be surprised if anyone outside of Valve, had even 10,000 games in their library.
I already uninstalled and installed steam again so all of them are gone but I kinda get what everyone is saying it might be tedious but I'll just have to check the folders from time to time ):
Note games leaving data inside the installation folder is somewhat rare in today's gamedev. In the old days such as with older Elder Scroll games, mods had to be installed into the game directory which might not get removed with a game's uninstall. Modern uninstall routines are more database driven and no longer to blindly "delete the entire folder" because this has led to some fairly infamous issues such as Myth's uninstall program that killed the entire Windows folder destroying the OS. With a database driven uninstall methodology it will only remove what it 'knows' it put there in the first place.
Today games will pretty much not touch the Program Files directory anymore beyond the initial install. Games now install mods in either My Documents, or in Appdata for teh particular game.
1. Game Data and Updates: Steam keeps track of game files and updates, which might occupy storage space.
- Remedy: Empty the Steam library folder of any unnecessary game files.
2. Download the Cache: - Over time, cache files may accumulate.
To resolve this issue, select `Steam > Settings > Downloads > Clear Download Cache`.
3. Videos and Screenshots: These may take up room.
- Fix: Examine and remove any superfluous movies and screenshots from the Steam userdata directory.
4. Logs and configuration files have the potential to expand in size.
- Remedy: Clear out the Steam logs directory's outdated log files.
5. Workshop Content: - A lot of space can be used by subscribed mods.
Resolved: Disconnect from any mods you are not using.
General Advice: To locate huge files, use a disk space analyzer.
After backing up your game data, reinstall Steam.
If necessary, move the Steam installation to a different drive.
You can lessen the amount of drive space that Steam takes up by doing these steps.