Not enough storage room for games??? WHY

[PooPooPanda]

I have an acer gaming laptop, theres a C drive and D drive with like 118GB each. I only have like league of legend on C drive nothing else.

C drive: 25gb available
D drive:91 gb available

The game I want to play is 90gb.

My two questions are:
1. if I install the game 90 gb on d drive with roghly 1 gb left, will this affect my computer performing in anyway, is it bad?

2. I don't have anything big installed, just windows and some pre-installed necessities. Why do I have so little space on both drives? I tried cleaning up using tools and the usual stuff, and after a windows update i actually have less room. I dont see anything big installed, whats the problem here?

HELP please~

[Cathulhu]

1. If it is an SSD it will slow down the drive due to how SSDs work.
Depending on the game you need up to twice the size of the game temporarily during downloading the game.

2. What are the total sizes of those drives?
https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free
Use this simple tool to check what clogs up your drives.
I recommend running it with administrative rights, so it can scan the protected areas as well.

[PooPooPanda]

There are 118GB each drive.
I used the software on d drive and 2 files are 8.5gb, a"pagefile.sys" and "Dumpstack.log.tmp"
and lastly a 6.7gb $windows.~TMP

Is it safe to remove all of these?

[Cathulhu]

You can not remove the pagefile.sys this way as Windows actively uses it.
The Dumpstack.log.tmp can be deleted. The TEMP files is something Windows manages on its own.

Any folders that showed using big amounts of space?
You can drill down until you find the one that eats all that space.

[nullable]

Originally posted by PooPooPanda:

My two questions are:
1. if I install the game 90 gb on d drive with roghly 1 gb left, will this affect my computer performing in anyway, is it bad?

Bad as in harmful? No. Bad as in probably less than optimum? Sure.

Originally posted by PooPooPanda:

2. I don't have anything big installed, just windows and some pre-installed necessities. Why do I have so little space on both drives? I tried cleaning up using tools and the usual stuff, and after a windows update i actually have less room. I dont see anything big installed, whats the problem here?

HELP please~

You got a laptop with a 250GB SSD and have it partitioned into two 118GB drives. Since it's a prebuilt system I expect that the D: drive exists to store the backup/recovery images, so that's why it takes like 28GB. And on your C: drive, well my Windows folder alone takes up 25GB. That's not counting all the other folders/data Windows creates or manages, and extra software or user created data. But a few MB here a few GB there it starts to add up pretty quickly. 118GB for a partition isn't that large. 250GB for a drive isn't that much space overall either. It's not 2001 anymore. After all even if your your drive was just a single partition a 90GB game would still be consuming a third of the total space.

So TL:DR;You've got a tiny drive split into tiny partitions and your use case doesn't seem to favor that configuration. I'd look into some upgrade options to add more storage.

[mtono]

Originally posted by PooPooPanda:

I have an acer gaming laptop, theres a C drive and D drive with like 118GB each. I only have like league of legend on C drive nothing else.

C drive: 25gb available
D drive:91 gb available

The game I want to play is 90gb.

My two questions are:
1. if I install the game 90 gb on d drive with roghly 1 gb left, will this affect my computer performing in anyway, is it bad?

2. I don't have anything big installed, just windows and some pre-installed necessities. Why do I have so little space on both drives? I tried cleaning up using tools and the usual stuff, and after a windows update i actually have less room. I dont see anything big installed, whats the problem here?

HELP please~

imho the only way to get rid of troubles is buying a new, bigger ssd. they are not that expensive. if u dont do this, you will have troubles in a row.

[_I_]

the way steam downloads/unpacks/installs games it will take about 2-3x the game size during the install process

[PooPooPanda]

Umm ya, with the software, I looked through my drives and folders, besides games, they are mostly windows related, don't think I can touch them.

YA actually my desktop comp got overheat problem just yesterday, gona have to use my old lappy until I get it fixed which I don't know when or if it will even be fixed. So for short term solution I was betting my game life on this lappy during this soft covid shutdown in my area.

Ya I wana play warhammer venmintide 2, and its freaken 90gb. So if I install it I have 1gb left on D drive, just want to know if this will be harmful to the computer like making it shutdown, or overheat , wont load or some other crazy things. If its just slowing down my computer a bit, how slow are we talking about? Like loading slow, or bad fps in games, what kind of "not optimum" are we talking about here?

Thank y'all~

[PooPooPanda]

Originally posted by _I_:

the way steam downloads/unpacks/installs games it will take about 2-3x the game size during the install process

So on my other broken desktop when I installed the 90gb game I roughly had 10 ish gb left I think. I left it on over night to download ( only at night when I sleep) and it took about 2-3 nights. If this is the only issue I have with no room left in the drive, then I think I'm ok with it since I can still play it. But we are talking about 1 gb left on my drive on this lappy if I install the game lol

[AustrAlien2010]

To your first question:

Last time I did this, Steam started swapping files to other drives during updates. (Yes, it actually did that!) So, it didn't worked so well, and updating took a lot longer, and I had to upgrade.

I suppose, you could just try these things out, like an experiment. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? I'm sure its nothing you can't fix.

[PooPooPanda]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

To your first question:

Last time I did this, Steam started swapping files to other drives during updates. (Yes, it actually did that!) So, it didn't worked so well, and updating took a lot longer, and I had to upgrade.

I suppose, you could just try these things out, like an experiment. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

Wait, does it actually work when steam updated the game to another drive? it shouldn't right? So how did you force it back to the drive you installed the game on.

Also i fear the worst would be like computer shutting down or some crazy stuff you never know lol. 1gb is not much man lol

[AustrAlien2010]

Yes. It was fully automatic. It decided to do that all on its own.

[nullable]

Originally posted by PooPooPanda:

So if I install it I have 1gb left on D drive, just want to know if this will be harmful to the computer like making it shutdown, or overheat , wont load or some other crazy things. If its just slowing down my computer a bit, how slow are we talking about? Like loading slow, or bad fps in games, what kind of "not optimum" are we talking about here?

Already answered the first part. Reading and writing to the SSD may be slower. This rarely relates to FPS. Just read/write times to disk. It would still be faster than an HDD.

No optimum doesn't mean bad or harmful. It just means if you were designing a system for best performance you wouldn't do things like plan to use all but 1GB of space, or have a 250GB SSD partitioned into two 118GB partitions. You'd do something a little more sensible for your needs.

[PooPooPanda]

I see~ Thanks for the answer. Good to know it would still be faster than HDD.

[Illusion of Progress]

If this is a 256 GB SSD split into two partitions, and not a pair of 128 GB SSDs, then if you have nothing of your own on the the secondary partition (and it's reserved for backup you don't care to use), you might consider removing the second partition to add it to the first. That's what I'd personally do, anyway.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

You can not remove the pagefile.sys this way as Windows actively uses it.
The Dumpstack.log.tmp can be deleted. The TEMP files is something Windows manages on its own.

Any folders that showed using big amounts of space?
You can drill down until you find the one that eats all that space.

Just set PageFile to None > Apply > OK > Reboot.
File gone.
But really you don't want to remove this at all anyways.
But if you do have 16GB minimum installed system RAM, you can probably do fine setting the PageFile low, such as 2048 MIN & MAX. However whenever you do change it at all, its best to first set to NONE then OK that and reboot the system. Then go and set what size you want via the same value for MIN & MAX to lock that in and this way the file will not dynamically change size and fragment your drive.

Run Disk Cleanup (Run As Admin) > Dump everything listed except for "Downloads"
If you have alot of things in "Downloads" (under your User) then off-load this stuff to External Drive to free up space.

Bring up System Restore, set this to around 10-20 GB limit.
Then click the option to wipe out all restore points.
More will be made automatically as you use the system based around system changes, installation of things, etc.

Rid the system of the Hibernation file.
CMD (Run As Admin) > POWERCFG -H OFF > Enter key > Reboot the system.

Its best to not split SSDs into multiple Partitions, if it is one large SSD, leave it that way.
Multiple Partitions will actually make you lose space because some space you will lose to make a partition + format it. If you want the most space from your Drive, manually wipe it 100% clean, then format it using the 4K Cluster option. Larger cluster sizes can help with drive speed (access of files and such) but will waste more space because if a file is less then the cluster size, that entire size must be allocated per block regardless of how small a file is in reality.

If you have 2x 250/256GB Drives, ditch one of them and go grab a 1TB or 2TB if you can.

Keep approx 40GB free space on C Drive at all times, or at least prior to doing any Windows Updates. OS Drive needs at least this much to do Windows 10 Feature Updates, as well as Updates for your Apps, which may grow in total size over time.

Use CCleaner and dump temp junk about once a week/month such as Temp Internet Files. I would not suggest wiping History or Cookies though.