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coppertop217's avatar
3 years ago

Game won't launch because I am "running low on disk space"

Game won't launch because I am "running low on disk space"

 I have hundreds of gigs of space

I have cleared the cache, uninstalled and reinstalled bf and the ea app, cleared the steam cache and nothing works

8 Replies

  • @coppertop217 hmmm weird !
    Are those drivers formatted as NTFS or FAT ?
    Post a dxdiag please !

    Check virtual memory also!

    Cheers
  • Game and app are installed on the C drive,  I've tried different drives as well.  All drives are NTFS, and virtual memory has been cleared but I still receive the error

  • ZacSm1's avatar
    ZacSm1
    3 years ago

    @coppertop217If both your Windows installation and the game are residing on your C:\ drive (and please forgive me this is going to sound like I'm being offensive but I'm not I'm just trying to sort your issue ) have you actually checked the free space on that drive ? The reason I ask is that I have my Windows installed on a smaller drive and the games etc on a larger (still SSD) drive. Windows is bloatware as I'm sure you're aware and fills up your available space with lots of stuff you'll never see or need. Error logs, BSOD records - it logs a stupid amount of data in it's default state. So first job - check that you do indeed have ample room on your drive.

    Secondly - you mentioned that you did have games installed on other drives - are they also in a good state space-wise? Check that the EA app is looking in the correct place for the games. If you've installed the games elsewhere in the past and you didn't correct the EA App options entry telling it where to find your games then it may be looking in the wrong place.

    Other than that I'm not sure what else it could be. The program defo thinks you're low on space by the sounds of it so I'd check again just to make sure and maybe do a disk cleanup too and get rid of all the nasty Windows detritus 🙂 It's worth doing that on a regular basis in any case.

    I'm not too sure what good posting a DXDiag would do as this seems to clearly be a memory/space issue.  If it's run properly in the past it's unlikely that it won't run now if you can discover where the space issue is.

    It's certainly very odd - the screenshot clearly shows what you say in your post.  Please check that it's looking in the correct place for the game - once you've checked that - if all is ok it might be worth trying a "repair" from the EA App. hmmmm let us know if you find out what the issue is 🙂

    Cheers.

    Zac. :D

  • EA_Leeuw's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago
    Hey @ZacSm1,

    A DxDiag from OP would indeed be helpful, as there also, unfortunately, seems to be a small bug with the EA app, that is affecting a tiny amount of players, that tells you there isn't enough space, while you have enough space... 😅
  • Hey you probably don’t have this issue anymore but the way I resolved it is I had to go to my disk drive partitions and remove any drive that have less than 100 gbs, hope this helps someone 

  • EA_Rtas's avatar
    EA_Rtas
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    10 months ago
    @BrutalOne2 Hey there! Appreciate you dropping in to provide your insight.

    Considering this thread has been inactive for over a year I'm going to go ahead and close it off.

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