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consolepcgaming 14 hours ago
Steamworks common redistributables keeps downloading
I have no idea why this keeps downloading, I cleared the downloads cache, I am on a laptop with an internal SSD not external drive. Don't know what else I an do? Is it normal?
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Ben Lubar 14 hours ago 
Each thing in there has a separate depot, so if you're downloading lots of different games from different time periods, it's downloading each of the dependencies separately (but still only one copy of, for example, the DirectX 9 runtime).

https://steamdb.info/app/228980/depots/
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consolepcgaming 9 hours ago 
So I guess it's normal?
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Satoru 9 hours ago 
If you have a library on an external or network drive, then steam wil keep deleting and redownloaidng them. This is because it only downloads the redistributables that are necessary for what games you have installed. If you unmount a library, and none of the other games you have installed need it, then it will be uninstalled. When you add the library back in, it will re-download those.
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