Tried installing Baldur's Gate 3. Yet somehow, 180gb of free space is not enough. About 2/3rds to 3/4ths through, the drive is completely filled. Not the first game to do so either. Trying to patch any of the 'bigger' games is an exercise in futility as you basically need to have the same amount of space free as what is taken by the install.

Come on GOG. I shouldn't need an entire SSD's worth of free space just to install a damn game.

Oh, you think your fancy Windows installers are bad?

The Linux installers still use an old fashioned GTK2 toolkit. (Read: Imagine if the GOG installers used a Borland Pascal or Visual Basic 3.0 widget set.)

But yeah, the way GOG handles the offline installers as a secondary rather than a primary is rather a bit telling.

(I just have to wonder what's in BG3 to even justify the size.)

Yeah, really shouldn't first unpack the whole thing into Temp and then move it. The only things in Temp should be what the installer needs to run, the rest should go straight to the installation folder.

Can't install it through Galaxy either. Fails at 65% with an Out Of Space error. Utterly ridiculous that a game with a listed requirement of ~135gb can't be installed with 180gb free.

Edit - Freed up another 45gb. Still can't finish the installation. For the record, that's ~225gb free and still not enough to install a 135gb game.

Edit 2 - Finally, at around 250gb free space, was able to install through Galaxy.

If it's like on Playstation (3, 4, not too sure about 5), you likely need at least double the space of the required GB ... Never had the case with gog installers so far, but I am installing from a different internal drives for storage + temp and gaming.

EDIT on your update: Great, that it finally worked and you hadn't to squeeze out the double amount.

Installers are on a different drive than the one that the game gets put on. And somehow, despite the game registering as ~133gb in the properties, I'm missing ~120gb of space after the install finished.

They are not the only one with this issue: On PS5 "PSO 2" is taking over 100 GB of space and in order to update this game i need to have over 100 GB of space FREE on top of that, else i can NOT update this game. So i need over 200 GB of space, which is 1/3 of total space provided... a hilarious situation. You simply never can have enough of space.

Indeed... without updating this game you can NOT play this game anymore, as the server will be blocking you... so a online game is always "forced update".

I surely will have to update the PS5 SSD soon. A PS5 without any extra space is only recommended for true casuals with only a few games. Just dirty expensive all those new hardware.... high end gaming is just not free.

Even my keyboard was dying completely just today. It was malfunctioning for weeks already and the RBG was dead long ago. Now the KB is completely down and i, despite my high lack of cash.... because of all the expensive hardware on the last few months.... i even have to buy a new keyboard... my money is just totally busted every new month.

The KB was approximately 3-4 years of age... but with "average quality" it wont last much longer than this, so this is to be expected. Over 5 year is high quality only and until recently those high quality KBs was over 200 coins. At least i had luck and got me the Corsair K70 RF RGB MK.2 for 123 CHF only, which is a "super lucky deal".,, they usually go much higher than this because of the Cherry MX switches.

However, despite many wrong opinions: A SSD is usually NOT dying because of NAND wear, it usually is dying because of a dead controller-chip (in my experience, it was never different). And a average to high quality Keyboard is NOT dying because of dead switches... it is dying because of some chips malfunctioning or even completely becoming burned... usually it is always some chips going boom. It was not the case 20 years ago.... but this is the past and not the new reality we got today.

The expensive switches are simply awesome performers... this is the reason for getting them. But, in almost any case... the switches will outlast the electronics by far.

I do not even dare to use a malfunctioning "attached USB device" for to long (it simply was my coins not up to the task... i am afraid) because in the worst case it can cause a "short" and this is able to damage the very expensive MB... so, the big issue is, any damage can cause a expensive "chain reaction":... killing many hardware "along its path".

If matters would always be "easy"... but this is not the case.

You actually care about the cosmetics of an installer?

I would suggest most gamers buy big external and internal HDD's, just to place these big-as-can-be games on.

Catch sales when possible, to back up your Big Huge Games (pun intended, on the game company - RIP, BHG) on SSD drives - since it's likely easier to back-up big games on SSD's. You just gotta hope you can catch a good sale on SSD's, since they ain't still as cheap as internal or external HDD's.

Also, external SSD docks and pretty useful too, if you can get also good deals on internal SSD's and you need a portable SSD dock just for storage.

If you ain't got room for internal HDD's, buy a hard-drive dock; those rock. Can always fit those there. And many docks do take SATA3-style SSD's too.

You can never have enough back-up HDD's, SSD's, HDD docks, SSD docks, and things of that sort - especially if you buy and play lots of games.

Also, you're likely gonna need double to triple the space open to install big stuff like this - especially if you use installers.

And I think some COD's and ARK are also WAY bigger than BG3.

Check your Temp folders or just do the usual clean up via drive Properties.

The way I recall it, GOG always extracts to a Temp folder, then installs from there. So because that tends to be on your OS drive by default and you are likely installing to your OS drive by default, twice the space is required. However, that temp folder data should be automatically cleaned up after install finishes, and if it wasn't there is some issue happening.

There are ways around where the Temp folder might be relocated to another drive, even if just temporarily.

I don't think 2 TB SSDs are too badly priced and that's fine for running your active games. Mechanical drives make more sense for backups of games you are not currently playing though.

My OS is on a 250gb SSD that only gets applications and such installed to it. My games are downloaded/installed on a physically separate, 2tb SSD that is partitioned into 4 500gb drives.

BG3 was DL'd to an external, 4tb SSD that I used to install it to one of the 500gb partitions. That partition was at ~180gb free and was unable to install. I then tried installing through Galaxy and was still unable to fully install before I freed up another ~75gb on that partition.

At no point did my OS drive ever get filled up or give any indication that it was even being used for the install. Properties clean up gave no indication of 120 sitting around, nor did Samsung Magician show why that 120gb was missing.

1TB and 2TB are good price/storage space and 4TB, while not as good, is at least semidecent. It is when you go above that it gets ridiculous.

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They should think of ways where you do not need that much free space for handling files. This is not a new problem at all.

Less than a year ago a 2 TB 990 PRO was 300 coins, now it is about half of this. However, the insane SSD prices was lasting for many years and only very recently it was going down a big deal.

8 TB is still not affordable, and in general any PCIE 5.0 drive...

For me so far it was not able to become improved in a realistic way because:

1. SSD is a 2 TB OS ONLY drive (only at emergency, which is now the case, i use it for games)
2. SSD is a 2 TB 990 PRO, this gaming drive has never been build above 2 TB, so this is as high as it gets.
3. SSD is a 4 TB Fury Renegade: This gaming drive is the maximum size possible for this drive.

4. SSD is not yet used, as this is a PCIE 5.0 slot, a 5.0 SSD is possible or recommended. However, any 5.0 is not affordable yet and i am not even sure if i should be stick to 4 TB or going even higher. In term i use a 5.0 drive, the biggest size is 4 TB, and very pricy. It may be sufficient for many years after but surely not more than 5 years (which is the expected lifetime of the current PC).

The other SSDs are all completely full yet, with the exception of the OS only drive.