Perhaps as time goes on Valve will explain the workings behind Steam. I would really like to know what "localized" is, though. I think this may be something that all versions tap into for ease of Half-Life updating without redundancy of bandwidth and disk space. I can make some logical guesses based on the following two caches: half-life engine, half-life localized. The retail version acts independently from your Half-Life install. When you download CS1.6 to play, you're downloading the retail version. That leaves 288MB for platform cache, other steam files, and two more cache files that I will now address.
My Steam folder weighs in at a total of 1640MB. That's only 366MB of unused, pre-cached space. Including the cache overhead, it equals 1352MB. Half-Life and those three mods equal 986MB. QUOTE "Well gee John Smith only has a 400Mb HL folder, but instead of him using the space on his HDD the way he wants too (Because he may actually be using an ancient PC with 10Gb of space which is almost full), we'll just make the Steam Cache 2Gb so he doesn't use it for anything but OUR stuff!"Well, you certainly are exaggerating it. That's not aimed at you Pseudoknight, but at Valve. "Well gee John Smith only has a 400Mb HL folder, but instead of him using the space on his HDD the way he wants too (Because he may actually be using an ancient PC with 10Gb of space which is almost full), we'll just make the Steam Cache 2Gb so he doesn't use it for anything but OUR stuff!"Įvery hour steam finds some new way to tick me off. That is the most idiotic reasoning I have ever heard. There are plans by Valve to allow the user to control the size of the cache in future updates. Steam allocates a cache for each game that is beyond the total size for new content. QUOTE (PseudoKnight Sep 15 2003, 05:25 PM) FYI, Half-Life and those mods don't add up to 1.82GB. I actually got to remember how bad CS was! Yay OMG it finally loaded a game without crashing on the 3rd try. I can't join a game of anything without it crashing.
Forgot to mention, that all this HDD space and it still won't run any games either. Yeah I'm sure this thread will get locked as we gotta keep up the illusion of steam being perfect and everyone is happy I sure hope the 1 TB drives are out before Half-Life 3.
So again, am I the only one with this problem? Or is everybody's folder this big? My original HL folder, with all the mods I play is only 837MB.Īnybody else having a problem with Steam eating up your hdd space? Good thing I got the 160gb, because I bet HL2 mods will take 100GB or so. Stupid Steam.I thought Valve promised something about the cache being limited to 1gb?ġ.82 Gb, for Half-Life 1 and 3 mods.
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