Steam Library Install Size

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Tolmekian

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Afternoon,

Slightly random request, is there any way of viewing how much hard drive space one's steam library would need?

Perhaps a website that can calculate this for you?

I don't really fancy having to view the steam page for each game and total them up. I'm at the stage where I have to keep deleting unplayed games to install new ones (a pain when you fancy playing X game and realising you need to redownload it) so trying to grab a large enough HDD before prices shoot up even more.
 
orderoftheflame said:
Not that I know of. Having a brief look at the account in your sig, I'd be surprised if it were more than 250-350gb in total. :)
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Shame, seems like one of those things someone else would have though of before me :p

That small? :eek: I see 70+ games and thought I'd grab a 2TB F4, although I suppose I could grab a 1TB F3 and still be future proofed.

Now I need to research whether the F3 has enough performance over the F4 in games, to turn away the extra TB storage for only ~£20 more :)
 
d_brennen said:
Why have all installed at once? I only have CSS, DXHR and HL:EP2 installed atm out of about 25 games
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Jason_AJB said:
Afternoon....

....I'm at the stage where I have to keep deleting unplayed games to install new ones (a pain when you fancy playing X game and realising you need to redownload it) so trying to grab a large enough HDD before prices shoot up even more.
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Jason_AJB said:
Shame, seems like one of those things someone else would have though of before me :p

That small? :eek: I see 70+ games and thought I'd grab a 2TB F4, although I suppose I could grab a 1TB F3 and still be future proofed.
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If it helps, I've got 650+ Steam games on a 2TB disk, and still got ~500gb free. :)

I don't think you'll have any problems for space. 2TB is a lot more than it sounds. :p

d_brennen said:
Why have all installed at once? I only have CSS, DXHR and HL:EP2 installed atm out of about 25 games
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Because space is cheap as chips and I'd rather have my games available to play than wait an hour to download anything. I don't see the issue. :confused:
 
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Rough ballpark figure you can use is 5GB per game. If you buy only modern AAA titles it will probably be higher, if you have a lot of older or indie games then it could be lower.

I've got about 250 games and Steam was taking around 700GB last time I looked so more like 3GB/game for me, probably because I don't tend to buy modern games on Steam due to their pricing.

I was buying a dedicated Steam drive I definitely would get at least 1.5TB to give yourself a bit of breathing space
 
HangTime said:
Rough ballpark figure you can use is 5GB per game. If you buy only modern AAA titles it will probably be higher, if you have a lot of older or indie games then it could be lower.

I've got about 250 games and Steam was taking around 700GB last time I looked so more like 3GB/game for me, probably because I don't tend to buy modern games on Steam due to their pricing.

I was buying a dedicated Steam drive I definitely would get at least 1.5TB to give yourself a bit of breathing space
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I wouldn't use 5GB as a ballpark figure anymore. Bioshock 2 on it's own is 9GB, and Portal 2 being 10GB. Other games such as Dragon Age, Rage etc are much bigger, well into the 20GB region.

8GB per game is probably a much better figure
 
madindehead said:
I wouldn't use 5GB as a ballpark figure anymore. Bioshock 2 on it's own is 9GB, and Portal 2 being 10GB. Other games such as Dragon Age, Rage etc are much bigger, well into the 20GB region.

8GB per game is probably a much better figure
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:confused: Not every game is a AAA big platform shooter though, as HangTime said, you need to scale the average based on the spectrum of titles you own.

I've got a ton of indie games under 50mb, if I counted everything as 8gb when trying to work out how much space I needed, I'd be buying 5TB + of disk space. My average would be nearer 2GB per game, everyone is different.
 
orderoftheflame said:
:confused: Not every game is a AAA big platform shooter though, as HangTime said, you need to scale the average based on the spectrum of titles you own.

I've got a ton of indie games under 50mb, if I counted everything as 8gb when trying to work out how much space I needed, I'd be buying 5TB + of disk space. My average would be nearer 2GB per game, everyone is different.
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Fair point I suppose.

Actually, just calculated mine, and my average is 4.5GB per game (includes from tiny indie games). Now I feel like a fool :(
 
Hmm, maybe I am one of the few people to want the exact size of my steam library install although I'm certain others would have needed/wanted this in the past.

It doesn't seem like a difficult thing to implement either when we have sites such as www.wastedonsteam.com
You would be able to work out the average install size across all users / individuals as well. I'll have a look into it, would be interesting.

As for my problem, I found a 1.5TB external that I purchased but never used.
Removed the caddy and installed, now using that as a media drive with my current WDCB for just steam :) Plenty of space left now.
 
If you want to find the size of your games look at the size of the steamapps folder then add a little bit for the client and you have your answer.

I have just gone over 1TB with over 200 games now.
 
gropingmantis said:
If you want to find the size of your games look at the size of the steamapps folder then add a little bit for the client and you have your answer.

I have just gone over 1TB with over 200 games now.
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That would imply that you have all games installed though?

The original issue was I wanted to know how much space I would need to install them all, as I can only fit 20 or so out of 70 :p
 
70 games should probably fit in 350GB, perhaps more if they are mostly new games.
A 2TB drive should give you plenty of capacity for the next couple of years.
 
I think it'd be good if you could download the install files to where ever you want and then when you try to load the game the first time it'll install it to where you want, same as if you uninstall it you should get the option to uninstall it from where its installed to aswell as the raw files.

I accidently backed up my SC2 folder to my f3 and was wondering for ages why my game seemed to take ages to play when I searched my pc for the .exe - never mind the HDD noise heh. I could never go back to playing games off a mechanical drive :(
 
ToejaMz0r said:
I think it'd be good if you could download the install files to where ever you want and then when you try to load the game the first time it'll install it to where you want, same as if you uninstall it you should get the option to uninstall it from where its installed to aswell as the raw files.

I accidently backed up my SC2 folder to my f3 and was wondering for ages why my game seemed to take ages to play when I searched my pc for the .exe - never mind the HDD noise heh. I could never go back to playing games off a mechanical drive :(
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Steam doesn't download an installer for games. It the unpackages game files as it downloads them.
 
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