It's downloading again? Going way past 65 GB

[stee_vo]

I tried to start the game last night, thinking it would work since I've had it preloaded for about a week.

 

I doubleclick the game and choose singleplayer, all of a sudden it seems to download something again, my folder is growing and growing, when it reached 95GB my SSD was full and I couldn't play, I deleted all the content and downloaded it again since I was going to sleep anyway.

 

 

So I wake up today, all 59GBs are downloaded, I doubleclick the game and it starts f*cking downloading again! http://puu.sh/hdxsY/7c2bf1ddb1.jpg

 

I look at my folder, it's 60 GBs large, WHY IS IT DOWNLOADING THIS sh*t AGAIN?

And WHY didn't Rockstar mention that we needed DOUBLE the ammount of free-space to do this?



Sorry if I sound a bit upset, I am extremely upset.

 

Anyway, anyone know what to do? I deleted all the content AGAIN and I am now downloading it, won't be able to do anything untill tomorrow at the very earliest.

[Kaito Katsumi]

Don't click on GTA V, go to steam and click play, it will unpack and update. I think.

[Mandatory]

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

[stee_vo]

Don't click on GTA V, go to steam and click play, it will unpack and update. I think.

That's what I did, and that's when it grew in size.

 

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

That's what I had heard, so basically Rockstar was lying to us. Classy.

[calvooo]

 

Don't click on GTA V, go to steam and click play, it will unpack and update. I think.

That's what I did, and that's when it grew in size.

 

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

That's what I had heard, so basically Rockstar was lying to us. Classy.

 

I dont think so. This is Steam issue, R* didnt mentioned that, thats all.

[DS 17]

Your fault as you knew that R* doesnt care about its customers and you bought the gane and thus support these methods. And before some of the mods think i promote piracy ... i can say that without doing so as you can also buy the game cheaper after the release. The 360 version is available for less than 30 Eur now. And new.

[stee_vo]

Your fault as you knew that R* doesnt care about its customers and you bought the gane and thus support these methods. And before some of the mods think i promote piracy ... i can say that without doing so as you can also buy the game cheaper after the release. The 360 version is available for less than 30 Eur now. And new.

These methods? The game is big, no matter how you do it, I'm just upset they never mentioned it.

[sivaG]

I don't think it is downloading. I guess it is the encryption process that is going on. Try to disconnect your internet and click play and see what it does. If you see any notification message like "BUSY WRITING TO THE DISK", Steam is busy decrypting the preloaded files.

[SilentMage]

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

At minimum, Rockstar should've posted something akin to the following:

 

"If you pre-load the game, you need at least 125GB of free space (60GB for the pre-load, 65GB for the unpacking of game files)." Yes, it would've led to more people going WTF upfront, but at least others (myself included) wouldn't have been blindsided by "insufficient space" messages during the unpacking phase of the game. Note that you get back the pre-load (cached) space post-install, so the game really is 65GB in size.

Edited April 14, 2015 by SilentMage

[TheDeathRises]

 

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

At minimum, Rockstar should've posted something akin to the following:

 

"If you pre-load the game, you need at least 125GB of free space (60GB for the pre-load, 65GB for the unpacking of game files)." Yes, it would've led to more people going WTF upfront, but at least others (myself included) wouldn't have been blindsided by "insufficient space" messages during the unpacking phase of the game. Note that you get back the pre-load (cached) space post-install, so the game really is 65GB in size.

 

This is Steams fault. Rockstar has nothing to do with this and doesn't have to cover up for another company.

[stee_vo]

 

 

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

At minimum, Rockstar should've posted something akin to the following:

 

"If you pre-load the game, you need at least 125GB of free space (60GB for the pre-load, 65GB for the unpacking of game files)." Yes, it would've led to more people going WTF upfront, but at least others (myself included) wouldn't have been blindsided by "insufficient space" messages during the unpacking phase of the game. Note that you get back the pre-load (cached) space post-install, so the game really is 65GB in size.

 

This is Steams fault. Rockstar has nothing to do with this and doesn't have to cover up for another company.

 

Surely they knew we had to unpack it?

[K20]

if you preloaded it last week, it shouldn't tell you to download again, unless it can not find the preload files somehow. i preloaded with it downloading only once the 60GB. so did everyone else.

 

about the 120gb needed. game itself is 60gb... and always will be. people are saying you need 120gb because the unpacking needs 60gb to OPTIMISE decryption. BUT it doesnt need it, it'll just take longer if its not the full 60GB of space. i installed on a 80GB hard drive, works perfect.

[Frantz Fuchs]

Unpack to your HDD

[Phyxsius-]

if you preloaded it last week, it shouldn't tell you to download again, unless it can not find the preload files somehow. i preloaded with it downloading only once the 60GB. so did everyone else.

 

about the 120gb needed. game itself is 60gb... and always will be. people are saying you need 120gb because the unpacking needs 60gb to OPTIMISE decryption. BUT it doesnt need it, it'll just take longer if its not the full 60GB of space. i installed on a 80GB hard drive, works perfect.

Incorrect, sir.

 

I preloaded on a damn 97 Gb partition and it ate everything. I was at roughly 65% decryption when it ran outta space and it popped the "disk full" message - 59.1 Gb the preloaded client and what was left at roughly 37-ish Gb free. Before deleting I checked - it had BOTH the "depotcache" AND "downloading" folders, so one more myth busted - it didn`t delete sh*t from depotcache as it was unpacking: if it would have done so, I should have been left with ONLY the 38 Gb file and not with the lower ones, which were something like 5, 7 and 10 Gb in size, kinda sorta.

 

I am redownloading now what I HOPE to be the unpacked version.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Phyxsius-

[SilentMage]

 

 

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

At minimum, Rockstar should've posted something akin to the following:

 

"If you pre-load the game, you need at least 125GB of free space (60GB for the pre-load, 65GB for the unpacking of game files)." Yes, it would've led to more people going WTF upfront, but at least others (myself included) wouldn't have been blindsided by "insufficient space" messages during the unpacking phase of the game. Note that you get back the pre-load (cached) space post-install, so the game really is 65GB in size.

 

This is Steams fault. Rockstar has nothing to do with this and doesn't have to cover up for another company.

 

Last I checked, it's the developers that have control over the content on their game's store page.

 

And as stee_vo said, Rockstar had to know about the need for additional space for unpacking preloaded content - if they didn't, that would be a pretty high level of negligence on their part. I'd still put the blame on them if people didn't meet the game+unpacking disk space requirements. That said, those unpacking requirements most likely aren't needed if you buy the game now (post-release).

[TheDeathRises]

 

 

 

You need 120Gig of space in order for the game files to be un-encrypted by steam. Once completed the game file save size will return to the 59gig.

At minimum, Rockstar should've posted something akin to the following:

 

"If you pre-load the game, you need at least 125GB of free space (60GB for the pre-load, 65GB for the unpacking of game files)." Yes, it would've led to more people going WTF upfront, but at least others (myself included) wouldn't have been blindsided by "insufficient space" messages during the unpacking phase of the game. Note that you get back the pre-load (cached) space post-install, so the game really is 65GB in size.

 

This is Steams fault. Rockstar has nothing to do with this and doesn't have to cover up for another company.

 

Last I checked, it's the developers that have control over the content on their game's store page.

 

And as stee_vo said, Rockstar had to know about the need for additional space for unpacking preloaded content - if they didn't, that would be a pretty high level of negligence on their part. I'd still put the blame on them if people didn't meet the game+unpacking disk space requirements. That said, those unpacking requirements most likely aren't needed if you buy the game now (post-release).

 

Last I checked, the devs aren't in charge of how Steam handles decrypting.

[Phyxsius-]

That said, those unpacking requirements most likely aren't needed if you buy the game now (post-release).

 

Just give me 7 more hours and I`ll be able to provide a 100% certain answer

Edited April 14, 2015 by Phyxsius-

[stee_vo]

if you preloaded it last week, it shouldn't tell you to download again, unless it can not find the preload files somehow. i preloaded with it downloading only once the 60GB. so did everyone else.

 

about the 120gb needed. game itself is 60gb... and always will be. people are saying you need 120gb because the unpacking needs 60gb to OPTIMISE decryption. BUT it doesnt need it, it'll just take longer if its not the full 60GB of space. i installed on a 80GB hard drive, works perfect.

I did it on a disc with 100Gb free space and it said I didn't have enough space, so it didn't work for me.

 

Glad it worked for you though, wouldn't wish this on anyone.

 

That said, those unpacking requirements most likely aren't needed if you buy the game now (post-release).

 

Just give me 7 more hours and I`ll be able to provide a 100% certain answer

 

Yeah, please update us, I have 20 hours left to go, hopefully this is the case.

[Phyxsius-]

Yeah, please update us, I have 20 hours left to go, hopefully this is the case.

Steam download - full game - 59.1 GB, no additional patching (installed RCSG manually from their page). SO I can confirm that it downloads decrypted client

[stee_vo]

 

Yeah, please update us, I have 20 hours left to go, hopefully this is the case.

Steam download - full game - 59.1 GB, no additional patching (installed RCSG manually from their page). SO I can confirm that it downloads decrypted client

 

I downloaded it again, but when I pressed play it started downloading again...

[Phyxsius-]

 

 

Yeah, please update us, I have 20 hours left to go, hopefully this is the case.

Steam download - full game - 59.1 GB, no additional patching (installed RCSG manually from their page). SO I can confirm that it downloads decrypted client

 

I downloaded it again, but when I pressed play it started downloading again...

 

The only thing we might have done differently is that I clicked Play from the Steam overlay, as it was more convenient, since it was already open at the time. Stop what you`re doing, don`t delete anything, force a file recheck and start from Steam, by clicking the blue PLAY.

 

I started from icon once today, I think (GTA desktop one), but it was after the first run of the game.

 

"depotcache" I think is for crypted version and "downloading" is for the game. "downloading" will then empty and a "common" will host your game. So, before you hit play, you should have "depotcache" empty and "downloading" resembling a fully unpacked game. It will then go to a 3 step install of Windows DC++ components and whatever, then will prompt RCSG CD Key register and play .

Edited April 15, 2015 by Phyxsius-

[TripleBullet187]

If you tried to Pre-load install it and did not have room to unpack the files. Uninstall the game via Steam. Then go into the Steamapps folder and delete the GTA V folder if it didn't uninstall correctly.

 

Then simply re download the game and it will install normally only requiring the 65GB.

 

This has been an issue with a lot of Pre-loaded games on Steam trying to be installed on users SSD. I am still not sure as to why Valve does not have something letting people know about Pre-load requirements.

Edited April 15, 2015 by TripleBullet187

[stee_vo]

 

 

 

Yeah, please update us, I have 20 hours left to go, hopefully this is the case.

Steam download - full game - 59.1 GB, no additional patching (installed RCSG manually from their page). SO I can confirm that it downloads decrypted client

 

I downloaded it again, but when I pressed play it started downloading again...

 

The only thing we might have done differently is that I clicked Play from the Steam overlay, as it was more convenient, since it was already open at the time. Stop what you`re doing, don`t delete anything, force a file recheck and start from Steam, by clicking the blue PLAY.

 

I started from icon once today, I think (GTA desktop one), but it was after the first run of the game.

 

"depotcache" I think is for crypted version and "downloading" is for the game. "downloading" will then empty and a "common" will host your game. So, before you hit play, you should have "depotcache" empty and "downloading" resembling a fully unpacked game. It will then go to a 3 step install of Windows DC++ components and whatever, then will prompt RCSG CD Key register and play .

 

So when you downloaded it "for real", did you download 65 GBs? Or did those extra 5 or 6 GBs come afterwards?

 

Because now when I download it says 59 GBs.

 

And I don't have a depotcache this time, just a "downloading" folder, so It's probably going to work now. Hopefully.

 

 

I'll update when I'm done so anyone else who has a problem can see.

[Phyxsius-]

One single download of 59.1 Gb, no additional patches other than fast Windows packages. No RGSC download either, as I had it preinstalled.

[stee_vo]

One single download of 59.1 Gb, no additional patches other than fast Windows packages. No RGSC download either, as I had it preinstalled.

Awesome, thanks a lot.