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Question

Hard drive problems

Jan 2, 2017 3:11PM PST

My hard drive has 800gb of space left and im downloading a game off steam and it requires only 4gb of space. when it finishes downloading it says that i dont have enough space...

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Clarification Request
Some old games are buggy about free space.
Jan 2, 2017 3:34PM PST

Let's hear what game this is.

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Answer
Reply to Bibbidge
Jan 2, 2017 10:15PM PST

Which download manager you are using to download the game ? If it IDM then you must know that idm requires lots of free space before downloading large files . Try to free some more space then it will be resolved.