RNG_of_Doom 2 Posted February 10 Why is Steam reserving tons of GB (60+) for a few MB or GB Update? Sometime its not possible to load the Update because the HDD is "out of space". Got this Problem only with WW3. Can anybody help? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weedtime 629 Posted February 10 Because the Steam needs to make a safe copy of the whole game, before updating files. Then space is released. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akan 20 Posted February 11 On 2/10/2019 at 5:40 PM, weedtime said: Because the Steam needs to make a safe copy of the whole game, before updating files. Then space is released. 1)Why does this happen only with this game? Because of this update method my ssd heats up by 65 degrees. 2)And why do I need to upload 7 files before each update? Why is this problem still there? P.S. Thank you in advance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weedtime 629 Posted February 11 49 minutes ago, Akan said: 1)Why does this happen only with this game? Because of this update method my ssd heats up by 65 degrees. 2)And why do I need to upload 7 files before each update? Why is this problem still there? P.S. Thank you in advance. It happens with most of the games, 70 degrees is safe and probably max temperature of your SSD with maximum efficiency. Steam copy/reserve space for the whole game, before an update to improve performance in allocating new files. I'm not really into this, it takes max 2 minutes for me after download, so don't really care, my SSD works on 42 degrees... We talking about 7 files when you check integrity? It's not fixed, because no one track the files yet, if you can do it, please send us information which files are replacing every time, it's just not important at this moment, as the 7 files don't really matter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akan 20 Posted February 11 21 minutes ago, weedtime said: It takes max 2 minutes for me after download Half an hour for me. 23 minutes ago, weedtime said: We talking about 7 files when you check integrity? It's not fixed, because no one track the files yet, if you can do it, please send us information which files are replacing every time, it's just not important at this moment, as the 7 files don't really matter. Thanks for the explanation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weedtime 629 Posted February 11 20 minutes ago, Akan said: Half an hour for me. Thanks for the explanation. Check your SSD speed, also SATA connection is way slower than M.2, mine, for example, have 2000 Read/900 Write speed MB/s. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akan 20 Posted February 12 I found only in Speccy: Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s Speed Not used (SSD Drive) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weedtime 629 Posted February 12 2 hours ago, Akan said: I found only in Speccy: Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s Speed Not used (SSD Drive) It's not the hard drive speed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ragir 4,583 Posted February 13 Ok, so this is related to two things: 1. We can choose how we do our updates with Steam. One way is to redownload each whole pack, even if it has only 1mb changed in it OR only download what changed and REPACK this data. We chose the second one, since some people might not be able to redownload the whole game each time we make a change (and we had 5 patches in the last week - imagine that). Some people only have 50GB data caps for the whole month, so this is probably not a good option. 2. Our packs are not yet optimized. As you can see in the screenshot below, we've only separated a few of them. We can do this much better, but there are 2 problems: it requires the game content to not change much (so we need to wait) and will require someone that really knows where stuff is and how its linked together and will take a month or so of just 8hr a day clicking. We can't afford to have our best people to do this for a month right now, especially with this possibly being rekt by additional changes we're planning. So, this will get a lot better in the coming months, just not yet, sorry. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RNG_of_Doom 2 Posted February 23 (edited) I hope it will get changed soon. I dont want to hold 60+ GB free space just for 1 Game Update with a size of 2 GB or so. Edited February 23 by RNG_of_Doom 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hybed 27 Posted February 24 17 hours ago, RNG_of_Doom said: I hope it will get changed soon. I dont want to hold 60+ GB free space just for 1 Game Update with a size of 2 GB or so. If you see an update for ww3 coming in, just delete the whole game and redownload it. That's the way i do it right now. It's faster most of the time too 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atway 479 Posted February 24 Fixed 5 hours ago, Hybed said: If you see an update for ww3 coming in, just delete the whole game 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TZoningHard 647 Posted February 25 I sometimes just uninstall reinstall. This is my biggest tech issue with WW3. Dont play anymore outside of testing but when I try to install the game again It takes for ever because of this issue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RNG_of_Doom 2 Posted July 26 Wow, Steam is still reserving for hours HDD Space.... Nothing changed...GOOD JOB! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tynblpb 472 Posted July 27 8 часов назад, RNG_of_Doom сказал: Wow, Steam is still reserving for hours HDD Space.... Nothing changed...GOOD JOB! Wow, sun is rising on the east... Nothing changed... GOOD JOB! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites