Patching requires 84GB of free space
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC Platform:Steam-PC Summarize your bug The entire game is copied to the C:/ drive whenever it's patched. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we fi...
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@Jezs This is the case for every Unreal engine 4 game. UE4 games (like this one) are stored on disk basically as 1 huge package, so to update the game you need to unpack the entire game, update it, and then repackage the entire game.
Dont ask me why they need to do this, is is just the way it is :D
Dont ask me why they need to do this, is is just the way it is :D
From what I've read that would only be the case if the developer chooses to package it all into a single .pak file, which this game does not. The largest .pak file is 12GB.
It also seems like the cause of this issue would be on Steam's end, but I assume the developers will contact them in that case.
I moved it over to the primary drive before the last patch, and it did patch correctly with only 20GB of free space, so it's only a secondary-drive issue.
I've got other games that also have large single files (18GB) installed on the secondary drive through Steam that patch correctly without much free space, so it seems to not be just a Steam patcher issue, it's specific to this game.
