>I don't have enough storage space to install a video game so now I have to make a thread about it on /v/Nobody needs to tell you
>>735048201Just delete some shit or move it to a different drive, lol
By not playing modern games.
>>735048201Delete shitShould have bought more storage before prices got fucked
>>735048446You need like 32-64TB of storage with modern games. if each game wants to bloat it self up to 250gb
I only play a browser tile game
>install in C:
>>735048201I remember playing portable CS 1.6 on school computers and it was like 100 MB.
I have a 90 mbps internet which is pretty decent so I simply delete games I don't want. A 100+gb game can finish in 3-4 hours of wait time which isn't much. Stilll kinda sad that my steam library has over a hundred games and I only have like 3-4 games installed at a time since SSDs still don't come in sizes of more than 1TB. Doesn't help that windows also is fucking useless on tracking mysterious large file sizes so it's a pain in the ass to constantly tracky where your memory is coming from. I had to scour my appdata the other day to find tens of gbs of fucking crash logs from skyrim.
>>735048201>installing games on your C drivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5-R6FH0qpA
>>735048695even older titles keep getting more bloated with time for some reason. what are they doing with their games? witcher 3 was like less than 30gigs now it's 50!
I don't understand how people here have this problem, are they actually buying every single slop game out there? The biggest I have is 160 gb or so, but most are nowhere around that size.
i play one game at a time. until i beat it, i don't install anything else.
>>735048201i click install and play that's about it
Why do you need everything installed at onceSame with shows, movies, whatever, I watch things and keep things I love and delete the rest
get another drive retard
>CS2 has ballooned up to 60gbWhat theWhen did this happen
What's wrong with downloading stuff to C
>>735048201>install to C>52 GB free
>>735049265>C almost fullWhy does this fucking happen every single time. I try my hardest to migrate things to other drives and it still fills up somehow.
>>73504932060GB for 8 maps! yikes
>>735048446im waiting to buy the dip
>>735048674>>735048726>>735049464none of you can actually explain what's wrong with this because you're NPCs following a script
>>735048201Companies like to offshore their asset development to jeets who are too stupid optimize their work
>>735049767C is for Windows and basic programsD is for media, pics, music, movies, pornE is for video gamesF is for direct capture footage
>>7350482012 TB SSD for OS and most played games.8 TB HDD for downloads, porn, and other games.
>>735049853You can't stop your OS from injecting game data and other shit into your C regardless.
>>735048201For less than the space of Counter Strike 2, you can torrent hundreds of episodes of DVD quality shows which you will enjoy much more.
>>735049853>he watches pornYes I am going to take your advice lmao
Why would CS require 60GB? Cosmetics? That's fucking gay.
>>735049952That's why you always delete it.
>>735049767Your media is fucked if malware gets into your OS and your media shares the same drive as your OS
>>735050014>zoomer scared to admit to doing something all normal men do
>>735048201I don't really play modern multiplayer games for this reason. A single player game being even bigger than this is absurd but at least I can delete it once I'm done playing.
It's crazy to think that skyrim used to be like 6gb back in 2011. I literally carried this game on a small usb stick that had 16gb
>>735050073This webm gets posted from time to time but never its source.
>>735049853If C is meant for windows and basic programs then it never needs to be more than 100 gigs so why does everyone say I need a 2 terabyte C drive
>>735050061You think having the malware on a different drive stops it from simply from copying to your C: drive? lmao?
>>735050154It's AI, you know it's cropped because it's bad.
>>735050154reverse search worked for me.your coomer level is too low
>>735050208Maybe. Or maybe its not bad and its cropped so it can be posted here.
>>735049480Residual data. The only way to get rid of permanently is to format C
>>735050201You don't, in reality. The usual cope is that C: drive is usually accessed by your CPU PCIe lanes and not the chipset lanes making it faster but that's horseshit for any /v/ workload. Why I wouldn't suggest a 100 GB drive is simply because some games start shitting themselves if installed somewhere other than C drive. Don't ask why.
>>735050201Because it's just cope. So many games nowadays even if you store the base files in other drives, especially live service games, dump a lot of files inside your C folders. Modern games also now require preloaded shaders so your nvidia shader folders can also balloon to ridiculous levels especially if you have multiple games that require compiling shader caches. I have to frequently delete just to save space and get rid of caches on games I'm not playing at the moment. Suffice to say, any game made after 2018 really wants you to play one game at a time because devs will do everything to bloat your storage space.
>>735048201>60GBunfortunately thats on the lower end of game sizes nowadays.
>>735050496>Suffice to say, any game made after 2018 really wants you to play one game at a time because devs will do everything to bloat your storage spacethis doesn't make much sense. it's not likely that your game is that popular such that it's going to be installed *first* before any other game. this strategy only harms your users unless your game is Fortnite or whatever the modern most popular title at the moment. for 99.9% of developers this is shooting yourself in the foot.
>>735050201Because the people saying that are saving games and random shit in C.
>>735048369THIS
>>735050496Why can't they save that where the rest of the game is saved? Why does it need to go to C.
>>735048446>games>hdd
>>735050653Well beats me. Even fucking nioh 3 is 125 gbs now. Nevermind most live service games.
>using drive letters and not mounting them in C:Noobs
>>735048201By playing retro games where the developers weren't retarded.
>>735050718Cuz muh Documents\My Gamesandmuh %AppNigger%
>>735049767my friends dad had this obsession with keeping his c: partition clean so he could reinstall and keep all the other stuff. that was 20 years ago THO.
>>735050718Because it's operating and user data and every game has their own folder. That shit fills up eventually. The a game's install folder nowadays is just the base files required to run the game. Things used to be a lot more simple where a game only needs a save folder in your documents and the installed files. Now you have to play whack a mole to locate all the files a game has placed in your system, and windows is fucking terrible at helping with this.
>>735050726It's an NVME not HDD
>>735048718>SSDs still don't come in sizes of note than 1 TB??? Is it retard hours on 4chan?
>>735050992My bad. Honestly I thought that limit for NVME was 4TB.
>>735051041They go up to 8tb but are fucking expensive these days.Enterprise stuff can go even higher but costs also skyrocket
>>735050979yo sysmon just got added by default to 11 and can look specifically for files created by an installer/game or by some specific time period. i HIGHLY recommend looking into it not just for this but many cool things.
>>735048315The storage space isn't the issue, it's the network bandwidth, installing a game like that will take at least a day on a slow connection
Buy a 2TB HDD with 7200RPM, or an external HDD from any company with a name that you recognize, if you don't want to install a HDD. Your computer probably already had 1TB if it plays anything modern. You can now own like 50 games. Or for a PlayStation 5, fuck it buy like a 4-5TB WD Black from Walmart, or a used Seagate from Gamestop for $125 or $70 or so. Those PS+ games that's why. Most PS5 games have a PS4 version that you can go with, and those SSDs for PS are fuckin expensive.
>>735050496I see And where might one find these shader folders?Asking for a friend
>>735048201Errrrmmm what are you? POOR?
>>735048201By having at least a 1TB hard drive and not needing to have 20 games all installed at the same time.
I don't play garbage.
>>735051167What kind of thirdworld shithole do you live in?100mbit up/down is free in my country
>>735051790AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCachecurrently have 10gb from playing first descendant.
>>735052339I have 10gb tooYou sure it doesn't clean itself? Does it ever get bigger to the point where you have to clear it? I've never touched thisUnless it bloats into 100gb or something I would never notice...
>>735048201by buying and only playing games <5gb indie
>>735052426NTA but use windirstat to easily see what's taking up space
>>735048201by having an 8TB SSD
>>735052426It depends on how you set your shader cache size in the nvidia control panel. It defaults to driver settings but you can set it up to take up to 100gb. It used to only take 4gb default but I don't know how latest cards.
>>735048201>8TB hdd for games>unlimited seedbox/cloud servers in caribbean for pirated/other content
>>735048596You don't need to have everything loaded and ready to go at the same time. Finish your games and then delete them.
>>735048201by having more than 1 drive you should not be gaming on your system drive it's getting enough writes as it is
>>735053060Drives "wearing out" is a huge meme. You'd need to be installing and uninstalling several GB of data every single day for like 20 years to even have a noticeable difference in your drive health.
>>735048201Lots of uninstall shuffling.
>>735053763I had a system SSD die on me before, I'm not installing anything that doesn't need to be there now.
>>735048201download more storage
>>735048201I use linux so my OS doesnt take up 80GB+More room for games
>>735049853i only have ONE SSD, and im not running windows from a HDD, it fucking sucks.
>>73504932012 years of NFT skins need all their textures
>>735052008Okay I agree with OP now. This is fucking stupid. Why does a single player game need to be the size of 42 DVDs?Physical media forced companies to at least try to optimise shit.
>>735048201I bought 6TB of storage, and I pick the few giga-sized games to keep installed. Ironically, I think the issue is more the individual smaller games, since keeping hundreds of 200-400MB games installed is fucking me over more than a single 50GB game.
>>735048201>CS2>modern>complains about tiny games being too bigShow me your Adidas tracksuit, Vlad.
>>735048718Please tell me you're in North Korea and just don't know about decent internet connections or larger SSDs.
what were 4tbs selling for just before the apocalypses?
>>735048201Simple. I don't play modern games.
>>735055505I bought my 5tb external HDD a few years back for 100$
>>735055592this is the way
>>735049976>"Instead of playing a video game, you should watch tv. It's much more enjoyable."Never change, /v/.
>>735054143What single player game are you referring to?
>>735048369FPBP. Actually the only modern games I play are indie games and they're usually like 500MB-1.2GB
>>735048201should've bought an SSD while it was still affordable. I got an 8tb Crucial for about $380 a few months ago and now it's about $800 kek.
I have around 20TB of space. 15TB of HDD and 5TB of SSD. SSD for OS, programs, and games with lots of loading, HDD for everything else.
>>735049480Cache for basically everything you do. Prune it once in a while or store it elsewhere and create a symbolic link.
>>735049952Yes you can. You're just too retarded to figure it out.
>>735048201I just bought a 2TB external drive for my vidya and it cost more than the 2TB drive I bought 6 years ago.
>>735048201Have more than one fucking storage device in my computer.
>>735052116Nta but I live in the third world and I pay peanuts for 1 Gbps upload and download. Unlimited traffic.
>>735049480Realistically you can't keep shit off of C:Every single program wants to "cache" stuff there and probably forgets to delete it. But even if not, it adds up. You can try moving AppData off of it but you'll probably discover all kinds of bugs. MS store stuff goes there too, in all sorts of weird places, and MS doesn't even want you to look for it. It's a lost cause. I tried partitioning to keep shit off of C: and it was a disaster, I had to roll it back.
>>735048201Most games above 40GB are not worth playing more than once or at all.
Because modern developers are inept. Look at Helldivers 2, it used to be about 130 GB heavy, now after hiring other devs with actual talent, it's like 20. That's 85% of the original size shaved off
>>735048718im more worried about the akyrim logs. start running y-cruncher and memtest5.
I have file system compression so most games are pretty small on disk. The folder which contains my games and nothing related to the OS or such stuff is 200GB by itself, my disk has only 170GB used.
>>735052008My E drive is an UBS Passport thing, I don't think I can install steam games on it, but i do use it for other stuff, like emulators.
>>735048201Stop being poor
>>735048201doesnt it usually come down to uncompressed audio in every language? nobody gives a fuck to save space anymore.
>>735059067There has never been a good game under 150GB.
You don't need more than 8-10 games installed at once. Are you actually playing all those games you have installed? I bet you haven't touched most of them in months.
>>735048201I can get 30+ ps2 games for 60gbWhy would anyone play this nft shooter?
>>735059508While its impressive they bothered to reduce the overall file size, its just too bad their game is still a buggy piece of shit
>>735049853>>735050061It's the most bullshit thing that I ever read in my life and I read plenty bs things in my life. The level of this bs is astonishing
>>735059508It was always like this on consoleThey just didn't bother optimising it for pc until now
>>735059508Most games don't have the problem HD2 had. They thought duplicating data would make it faster on HDDs because it'd allow for fewer long seeks.The problem is, the OS determines where data lies on the disk, and you can't make a game store data on the cylinders you want like laying out an optical disc.They were fucking retarded. I can't think of any other developer that did that shit.Most games these days are filled with high resolution textures, because poors can just use the mipmaps, and nonpoors will complain about shitty textures if you leave them out.There are some games (Diablo 4, Space Marine 2, and others) that will let you selectively download them, but most developers feel one texture pack will serve everyone (which it does, except for space and download time concerns, which are largely irrelevant in 2026).
