• Size of Steam Client

    From crmstone@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 4 03:05:32 2020
    Just wondering how large the PC Steam Client is??
    And how much dross is installed??
    Seems that you can't buy a game without using Steam??
    Unlike just running off a CD as 20 years ago.

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  • From Colin Stone@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 4 07:20:54 2020
    Blimy - 600mb of what?? Bloatware??
    I'm only thinking of getting F1 2019. I know that is around 80GB, but can go on another disk.
    And Steam don't seem to be exactly friendly - looks like I have to buy something before I can ask a question on the discussion board.

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to crmstone@gmail.com on Sat Apr 4 09:45:36 2020
    On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 03:05:32 -0700 (PDT), crmstone@gmail.com wrote:

    Just wondering how large the PC Steam Client is??
    And how much dross is installed??
    Seems that you can't buy a game without using Steam??
    Unlike just running off a CD as 20 years ago.

    That depends.

    The client itself, installed, is about 600 MB after a fresh install.
    However, this number is just the baseline. The total size of your
    Steam directory will likely be much higher but the actual number will
    between users. Steam will download various files relating to your game
    libary (game information, cover images), so the more games you have,
    the more disk space you'll need. Save-games and screenshots are also
    usually saved in subfolders of the Steam directory. And, of course,
    the games themselves are usually installed into a subdirectory in the
    Steam folder too. Steam also does a pretty poor job of cleaning up
    after itself, so if you uninstall games it doesn't always delete all
    the files in the games folder.

    End result, the more games you own and install, the larger the
    footprint Steam will leave on your hard-drive. That said, it's still
    fairly insignificant compared to modern hard-drive sizes. With
    thousands of games in my library and never having refreshed my Steam
    install in years and years of use, my Steam folder (minus screenshots
    and game-installs) hovers just under 5GB. Were I to uninstall and then re-install (refreshing the client) I'm sure it would be significantly
    less.

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  • From Colin Stone@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 4 07:55:24 2020
    Installed Steam on another drive - 745MB with a few 10s of MBs on C drive.

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sun Apr 5 11:58:19 2020
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

    The client itself, installed, is about 600 MB after a fresh install.

    Um. I wonder what the huge sourcemods directory in Steam is for? I have
    about 7 GB of data in there... I guess shared resources for different
    games using the Source engine. In fact, not a bad idea and would be nice
    if other games would share resources.

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to Anssi Saari on Sun Apr 5 14:57:24 2020
    On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:58:19 +0300, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

    The client itself, installed, is about 600 MB after a fresh install.

    Um. I wonder what the huge sourcemods directory in Steam is for? I have
    about 7 GB of data in there... I guess shared resources for different
    games using the Source engine. In fact, not a bad idea and would be nice
    if other games would share resources.

    You guessed its purpose. Basically it's a location for mods of the HL2
    game, whether amateur or professional. Not just mods, but full games;
    I think - at least for a while - the Garry's Mod used the sourcemod's
    folder.

    But I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of old data lingering
    there from games and mods you've since uninstalled. Steam is terrible
    about its self-maintenance.

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