Steamworks common redistributables keeps downloading

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consolepcgaming 10 Jul @ 7:23am

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 10 Jul @ 7:40am

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/

consolepcgaming 10 Jul @ 1:00pm

So I guess it's normal?

Satoru 10 Jul @ 1:05pm

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.

consolepcgaming 17 hours ago

Originally posted by Satoru:
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.

I havent got an external drive

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