Updating on Steam needs way too much space?
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Hello.
I just wanted to start Path of Exile, playing it via Steam. (don't even know if it's possible to play off-steam anymore but well) It seems like there was an update of 18.5MB - The game is on a SSD and since it'S only a 128gb SSD it's pretty full, but i still had about 3.7GB free - should be enough for the update or so i thought.. Turns out i needed at least around 6GB free space to update - it then downloaded the 18.5 mb, filled the SSD up to some MB left, wen't basically immediatly back to 3.7GB free and then continued to install the update. Whats up with that? |
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The way steam patches is to download the whole thing, then byte-patch the real content file based on the diff.
It's much larger than the non-steam client patching, but steam also has some benefits. You can play off steam if your account is linked to an email address, but you have to install from the website. |
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Steam is weird sometimes, maybe it needed to get all the game differences for the last few versions and then combine them.
The normal patcher doesn't do that. It finds the changed internal Content.ggpk files, then downloads and overwrites with the new ones. In the end, Steam usually has lower bandwidth usage during each patch, because it only gives you the differences, rather than downloading the whole changed files. So if you're patching from a very old version, the incremental differences can add up to a lot more than just the changed files total size. |
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Wow, this seesm really unnecessary. Stupid Steam :/
Thanks for the answer, will stay with steam and just relocate some other things on that SSD. |
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