Why are microsoft store games taking up so much space?

venomx

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Why are microsoft store games taking up so much space?

Installing and downloading Forza 7. As I started the download my SSD space went down 100GB. and now during the download my SSD space is going down by 1gb every 2 minutes ?

Will the OS delete the temporary files after downloading ?
 
After some searching for the missing data. There's a 100GB " Cache " file stored on the SSD. I'm assuming this will disappear afterwards.

Think I found the culprit. Delivery Optimization was taking up loads of space, disabled it now the game seems to be taking up the correct amount of space
 
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Related question, why are Store downloads so slow when the normal Microsoft CDN (for downloading isos etc) can max out my 660mbit line? I frequently see speeds dropping to the 50-200mbit range.
I've found it improves a bit by messing about with Delivery Optimisation, but I don't really like using this P2P stuff if I can help it (don't want my PC uploading stuff to the internet when I'm trying to play games or whatever).
 
venomx said:
After some searching for the missing data. There's a 100GB " Cache " file stored on the SSD. I'm assuming this will disappear afterwards.

Think I found the culprit. Delivery Optimization was taking up loads of space, disabled it now the game seems to be taking up the correct amount of space
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How do you turn off Delivery Optimization ?
 
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