Steam: Shows different game sizes

steamclosed wontfixreviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#30 · opened 2012-12-20 by Tercus · updated 2013-05-04 · 1 comments · github

TTercus 2012-12-20 github

I have mentioned something similar before, but it appears that the client uses different ways to calculate the size of the game.
As seen in the picture below, it shows two different numbers. The same numbers are also shown when you initialize the download. It will say the game would take up 10GB, but when it starts it says it downloaded x MB of 12000 MB.

Different sizes

Ddavidw-valve maintainer 2013-01-10 github

The amount of data downloaded may not correspond exactly with the amount of space taken on disk. In any case, either number is approximate.

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