Game takes up space when booting up

[76561198765150217]

I tried pretty much everything to solve this, spent hours but I can't come up with a solution to what the hell is going on so my last resort was coming here to ask.

Basically, I downloaded a few free games, where winds meet and Palia. I played them for 30 mins or so before noticing something, my C disk drive previously having 20GB free now only had 7GB. this had me very confused. nevertheless, my brother solved the issue and freed some space so it had 27GB free now, I thought itd be end of that but nope.

While playing where winds meet I noticed something, anytime I boot up the game, the game takes space in C disk instead of D and it takes A LOT of it. To boot up, it goes from 27GB down to 24GB, when I leave it goes back to 27. But, as well as when I leave after some gameplay 100-300+ MB is reduced from my C disk and this goes for any steam game I play, even Palia. My disk space right now in C is 23.9 GB after i tried to resolve the issue and unsuccessfully so. Anyway, I asked a close friend is this happened to him but it wasnt the case so I'm not really sure whats going on for this to only happen to me. Am I doing something wrong or?

[76561198765150217]

:,D

[nullable]

What if you run your Virtual RAM off your D: drive exclusively?

[Dranak]

Some info about it.
https://darwinsdata.com/how-much-free-space-does-windows-10-need-to-run-properly/#:~:text=Microsoft%20recommends%20a%20minimum%20of%2016-20%20GB%20of,temporary%20files%2C%20and%20system%20utilities%20to%20work%20properly.


Your system has already lost performance with such low free storage space.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Dranak:

Some info about it.
https://darwinsdata.com/how-much-free-space-does-windows-10-need-to-run-properly/#:~:text=Microsoft%20recommends%20a%20minimum%20of%2016-20%20GB%20of,temporary%20files%2C%20and%20system%20utilities%20to%20work%20properly.


Your system has already lost performance with such low free storage space.

The page talks about recommendations, and then goes on to suggest 3x-5x what MS recommends because that feels nicer. It offers no benchmarks or data to suggest performance loss or how much. So... since your parroting, how much performance has the OP lost? Don't forget to show your work.

Plenty of reasons to want free space without leaning on ambiguous performance claims.

[Dranak]

Originally posted by nullable:

Originally posted by Dranak:

Some info about it.
https://darwinsdata.com/how-much-free-space-does-windows-10-need-to-run-properly/#:~:text=Microsoft%20recommends%20a%20minimum%20of%2016-20%20GB%20of,temporary%20files%2C%20and%20system%20utilities%20to%20work%20properly.


Your system has already lost performance with such low free storage space.

The page talks about recommendations, and then goes on to suggest 3x-5x what MS recommends because that feels nicer. It offers no benchmarks or data to suggest performance loss or how much. So... since your parroting, how much performance has the OP lost? Don't forget to show your work.

Plenty of reasons to want free space without leaning on ambiguous performance claims.

We dont have to proof anything to you, with the way you run things, clearly you dont have basic hard driver knowledge that standard in any IT education. or have the cut that away from your education, it dont matter if this is SSD or spin driver, hard driver media is the slowest media in out pc so performance and output has matter over 4 decads.

Your are a helper here and dont know performance lose with low storage space. well im sure alot of other ppl will not agree with how you see things.

if the person or you dont feel the diffrence with a new empty drive or near full, nobody will explan you anything here.

i doubt any will bother even explan or tell you this. ( this is so well know among many pc users. ) but in this case not OP.

[76561198765150217]

oh um sorry;; Maybe i should clarify, I downloaded all these games in D disk which has a lot of storage space left instead of C of course. Yet for some reason when i boot the game instead of taking up space in D disk it takes up space in C. I just wanted to know if this is normal or not, if its normal for everyone I have no choice but to delete steam because my C disk cant handle that, losing space everytime I boot up the game despite the fact its stored in D disk. I dont need space freed up, I have enough, I just need to find out a way to solve this taking up unecessary space (100-300+ MB after I leave) and whenever thats a normal thing or not. All other games outside of steam I played as I recall never took off any space from C disk, not *that* much anyway.

[Dranak]

I don't know why you dont get asked, every time i try install a game i get ask whise of the 4 drives i have, in where to installed it.


you can try make steam ticket and hear why you have such issue,

all i can say i can see all my drives in steam settings storage, and default is boot SSD drive and other is a mix of SSD and spin drives.

[76561198765150217]

okay ty bothh

[nian]

Games write various files (save data, shader cache, etc) into certain folders (AppData, etc).
These folders are located on your C: drive by default.

So it is not unusual that launching games would slightly reduce the free space on your C: drive.

[Satoru]

Note this can be a lot of things

1) your local swap file getting larger. this can happen as games take up a lot of memory, so windows will expaand your swap space to move stuff there to make room for your game to have more active memory

2) when you initially run the game, or when you upgrade your video drives, games like this generally will recompile shaders. This is basically optimizing how the game behaves (shaders are basically tiny programs within the game) as it optimizes how these tiny program run on your video card. These can take up space as the recompile happens.