Originally posted by FoxyRaven:

Because the game verify its game files and needs the space for a short backup, its the same thing with many other games on steam.

No other game has ever done this. This is the first game where this has happened in my experience.

It's how steam unpacks and repacks files. Depending on how the devs rolled out the patch a small patch could easily be a 40 gb unpack and repack. Basically, need more space

if you have this on your system drive, my condolences, you can't do this. buy a separate disc. Because you can't do that. You have a lot of service information and a swap file and a lot more. in 2024, having 30 gigabytes on a disk, if it is system-wide, is bad. I have separate discs for games and I have not seen any shortage. Although I have 2-3 terabytes of games installed in total, maybe more.
But I don't have any games on the system M2. This is bad for performance and resource.

Originally posted by FoxyRaven:

Originally posted by Turlas#6:

No other game has ever done this. This is the first game where this has happened in my experience.

Palworld does this, fallout 4, fallout 76, counter strike 2, overwatch, diablo 4, helldivers 2, destiny 2, warframe, and so on and on.

A simple google seach will also tell you this, if you dont belive me :)

I guess palworld is small enough that it wasnt an issue. Never seen it happen with the other games you listed. This is the only one where I've seen this. Not doubting you, but its a first for me and none of these other games you listed did this. So...I dunno. Dumb way to patch, I guess.

Originally posted by DeDeath:

if you have this on your system drive, my condolences, you can't do this. buy a separate disc. Because you can't do that. You have a lot of service information and a swap file and a lot more. in 2024, having 30 gigabytes on a disk, if it is system-wide, is bad. I have separate discs for games and I have not seen any shortage. Although I have 2-3 terabytes of games installed in total, maybe more.
But I don't have any games on the system M2. This is bad for performance and resource.

...ok.

All game on Steam have the same method of unpacking files after updating.

Originally posted by Pixelica:

All game on Steam have the same method of unpacking files after updating.

Well, after many years of using Steam, this is the FIRST time I've ever seen this. So, guess I somehow avoided it until now.

Good news everyone. Deleting the downloads folder, clearing the cache, and validating the game files seems to have forced it to go through. ill be able to rejoin yall soon...yay. Thanks for the wisdom, folks.

Edit: nevermind...didn't work. Just stuck on a loop now. Gonna uninstall and reinstall. Hopefully that does the trick.

still having this issue to this day

game is 50gb in size, to unpack u need more than 50gb free space, around 70gb is looking safe, for me personally with my 415gb ssd, i need to have atleast 100 gb free. yup i am stuck with 3 mmo unless i find one thats under 10 gb lol

You're low on space if you're getting this error as this isn't the only game that does this on Steam. 2tb and some 4tb options are cheap these days, upgrade if you can so this isn't a constant problem.

Originally posted by Turlas#6:

Originally posted by FoxyRaven:

Because the game verify its game files and needs the space for a short backup, its the same thing with many other games on steam.

No other game has ever done this. This is the first game where this has happened in my experience.

What? I do this all the time to all sorts of games.

if you only 30gb left on your drive then its time to free up some space.

Yes, this issue is a year old. I have more SSD space now. Thanks.