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Posted September 30, 2017
I like the idea of Galaxy but for some reason it just spent 10 minutes "allocating disk space", why? I have hundreds of gigabytes free so its not like Galaxy has to clear space (And I'd be flaming mad if it did). I'd rather just download and install and save the allocation time waster.
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Posted October 01, 2017
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Rhodax: I like the idea of Galaxy but for some reason it just spent 10 minutes "allocating disk space", why? I have hundreds of gigabytes free so its not like Galaxy has to clear space (And I'd be flaming mad if it did). I'd rather just download and install and save the allocation time waster.
I don't recall this happening when I installed it. Do you have a custom setup perhaps (different drive letters and/or discs) that you install programs to? Did you run the setup as Admin? Which OS are you using?
Posted October 01, 2017
Galaxy didn't allocate for itself but for Xenonaughts which I told it to download. Prior to starting an actual download it spent a ton of time allocating space.

Vanilla Win 10 no admin privs needed
Posted October 01, 2017
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood when it was allocating and what for. Again though I've no idea why it's doing this. I've DLed a fair number of installers via Galaxy just last night (about 50GB total) and not seen this issue. How much space in the partition where you're DLing the installers?
Posted October 01, 2017
Pre-allocating makes sure you have enough disk space to actually finish the download, I believe it also prevents the fragmentation that would happen with a normal download.

On a mechanical drive it's a fairly intensive process and can take a long time, especially for large games. Steam does this as well, I think it took 10 - 20 minutes to allocate space when I installed Total War - Warhammer the other day.
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Posted October 01, 2017
But why bother with this allocating stuff at all? I have tons of room and it only takes less than a millisecond to check available space. I defrag on a schedule so its never a problem, why should galaxy decide for itself that my drive needs defragging? Which it doesn't by the way, brand new machine and defragged right after I killed all the bloatware and useless windows stuff.

I've never seen steam do anything like this. It just downloads and installs like you would expect.

Think I'll just go back to regular downloading.
Posted October 01, 2017
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Rhodax: But why bother with this allocating stuff at all? I have tons of room and it only takes less than a millisecond to check available space. I defrag on a schedule so its never a problem, why should galaxy decide for itself that my drive needs defragging? Which it doesn't by the way, brand new machine and defragged right after I killed all the bloatware and useless windows stuff.

I've never seen steam do anything like this. It just downloads and installs like you would expect.

Think I'll just go back to regular downloading.
It allocates because checking free space at the start of the download doesn't guarantee there will be space left by the time the download finishes, especially if someone is using a a low capacity SSD that's almost full. And Galaxy isn't deciding anything, it's going to pre-allocate space when downloading any game.

And if you've never seen steam do this you haven't installed many large steam games lately.
Posted October 01, 2017
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Rhodax: But why bother with this allocating stuff at all? I have tons of room and it only takes less than a millisecond to check available space. I defrag on a schedule so its never a problem, why should galaxy decide for itself that my drive needs defragging? Which it doesn't by the way, brand new machine and defragged right after I killed all the bloatware and useless windows stuff.

I've never seen steam do anything like this. It just downloads and installs like you would expect.

Think I'll just go back to regular downloading.
Pre allocation prevents the files from being fragmented, it doesn't defragment your HD. And by default Steam does pre allocate space. When you tell it to install a game it has a green bar stating it is allocating space. It's not just about how much, but WHERE it's located on your HDD.
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