#STEAM DOWNLOAD PREALLOCATING INSTALL#

'downloading content 9%' *except* the bar is at like 90%. your explanation would work out wonderfully, except the game is like 80GB, and there was never enough additional space on the SSD for that.Īlso see the last pic. I dont really recall it exactly anymore, but i took some screenshots, because it was baffling lol (gotta check later if i find this out.

#STEAM DOWNLOAD PREALLOCATING INSTALL#

Once I cancel the Allocating Disk Space all 10gb files will be deleted and I have to download and install again. Last times this happened (on the same day) it was 2 really small patches, but the games were on SSD, and there was only about 10GB left on it, so it couldn't possibly have copied stuff elsewhere (unless it did? ) Tried downloading and installing but it gets stuck in Allocating Disk Space even after it's done downloading and installing. Oh, yeah, that explains most of this i suppose, but i have the suspicion something else is going on as well. how guys, after hours of frustration trying to fix this problem because Steam doesn't have a support hotline i finally figured out why my steam games weren't. so you temporarily need 100GB free and it will take long, ages if you're on an HDD. The Allocating disk space process was only half-way. However, I started my download on The Witcher 3, which I know is a huge file but even after a 30 minutes trip to the store. See my post above, on a 100GB game even if the patch is 50MB it will copy the entire 100GB to a different location on the drive while applying the patch, then delete the original data. I know steam always does this when installing a new game, but I have only experienced it to take 30 seconds to 1 minute.

Steam download preallocating