Warning: launch all your games at least once before running this program. The program removes all the DirectX/Visual C++/etc things, if Steam can't find them when you launch the game for the first time, it won't work and you'll have to download the game entirely.
Edit: Alright, corrected, the first part is still valid tho, launch your games first.
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If that should happen i think that doing a integrity check would be enough, without force a full download of the entire game.
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Still that kills the entire thing for me.
I got a lot of games installed. And every time I reinstall windows, my steam directory stays untouched, so I don't need to reinstall any games or even get the 1 week market restriction. I don't see this being useful if every time I reinstall windows, it will have to download all these files for the first run.
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So did you install Steam on an external HDD/SSD or just moved it on C:\?
Well, it takes some times if when i do the check but i prefer to save my space... Right yesterday i run the cleaner with only a few games installed/checked after the upgrade to Windows 10, and i saved up to more than 1 GB.
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I got a 128GB SSD, which is about 75GB C: and rest is Z:.
C is OS and I reformat when I need to. It has nothing else on it except installed programs and temp files.
Z is where I keep games I want to load fast like Team Fortress and CSGO. Its a bit tight, but it seems just enough so I dont bother to buy a higher capacity one.
D: is 6TB HDD. It contains folders for games, data, movies, etc. It also has my documents which contains my music, saved games, desktop, favorites, etc. So every time I do a reinstall, I just point the desktop, documents, etc to my D:\ and I never have to worry about backing my stuff before formatting. At any point I can fully erase my C: or even throw away my SSD, and I will not lose anything worthwhile.
Steam is installed in a folder in my D:\Games, so I never have to reinstall it. I currently have 2TB free with my games folder reaching 1.48 TB in size. While I am probably not the target audience for this app, I would have liked to use it, if it didn't mean that every reinstall will force me to re download chunks of files for every game, compared to now, where its seamless, and the games simply work from the beginning without requiring any downloads.
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Maybe one day when i'll get a SSD i could adopt a kind of this solution... But for now i don't wanna format and/or move everything. :$
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In the Win XP days, I simply got tired of having to backup everything for a reinstall or using recovery disks to save the data when something with the OS goes wrong. After I had a HDD fail on me, I decided that my OS was always gonna be on a separate disk, and nothing I ever want to save was going to go on it. Once you move everything important to other drives, the C drive actually does not need much space on it to work. Initially it can take a bit of time to make partitions and everything, but its really a lot better to keep important stuff away from C drive in the long run. I have not lost anything in the past 10 years, since I started keeping everything off C drive. Over time I have upgraded to larger HDDs, but I just copy paste to the new HDD, without ever having to worry about losing stuff to a reinstall.
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Sound nice, i'm used to make a just a simple backup, not a big deal for me for now.
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Actually you don't have to. You can just made "Verify integrity of game cache" if something doesn't work the way it should, no need to re-download game entirely.
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The thing is...if you ever reinstall or upgrade your OS then you'll also have to reinstall these games as well...and so this cleaning would be rather inconvenient since all of that would have to be integrity checked and downloaded again. Best to just leave it intact I think.
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Yeah, i don't know why but that's the original post from Reddit. The same link is avaiable on a icon in the program.
It doesn't seem so new by the way:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/617329505864009467/
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1v4vmr/thanks_a_ton_steam/
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2jiaor/clean_your_steam_games_folder_with_this_steam/
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Pretty good when intending to keep a ~1000GB of Games-Data installed - going to try this soon on the desktop-pc
on my notebook at least i've chosen to remove the games completely i don't play (saves obviously the most space).
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Oh, I thought you were talking about one of these:
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I love this program, it saves a lot of space especially when steam keeps installing those packets everytime I open the same game :I
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So analog of TikiOne program is going to Greenlight http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=520044147 ?
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Is it from the original developer or is this a copy? If they plan on charging money for it I will just stick with TikiOne as it is now.
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idk, maybe Nekrux will know something about this situation?
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Comments frome the developer point to it being different, stating that it's faster and better than TikiOne, which I call bullshit on, since T1 already detects at diskread speed.
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Yeah. I just read his reply to me and think it's B.S. too. I'll stick with TikiOne.
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I think he wanted to make money off this, and his kickstarter projects failed so he quit and now he's doing this, trying to pass it off as new and better.
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Google 5 seconds, https://github.com/jonathanlermitage/tikione-steam-cleaner/releases
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I remember reading about this software or something very similar on the old Steam forums.
Can I ask if after the cleaning when there are game updates if all the files that were cleaned will be reaquired again?
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Think with some patches it can install some of the microsoft distribution files again, but most likely on big (AAA) games, and not so much on indie games.
But whenever you install a new game, you have to run it again anyway if you want it totally clean, it's more something you want to do as maintenance once a montth or months rather then every week or day.
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Mostly with new games that I install I delete the installscript.vdf so the software doesn't run as most files needed are the same legacy files that are already installed before from other games. Also nvidia and Physx files I install myselves outside of Steam.
I remember using some time ago a version of this software that I found in the then still active old Steam forums and it found and deleted 42 GB of similar install files but at that time any game that received any update reinstalled the deleted files again.
It's strange that Steam never put the most needed install files under "tools" so we didin't have to download dozens of the same files again an again.
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I can't really say as the majority of my games are indie, and don't require big updates.
Just ran it 30 minutes ago, and it deleted only 1gb of files.
42gb does sound like alot though, curious as what would take such an amount.
Yeah or have a program like this come with steam, heck even give the dev of tiki a few thousand and implement it, nor shouldn't be too hard to make themselves. shrugs
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I have Steam games installed to Steam only 3 x 2TB WD Caviar Black SATA Hard Drives. So those hold a lot of games.A lot of games = a lot of generic, legacy install files and also wiped not needed language files.
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As Lugum said i don't think Steam downloads again what you just cleaned except for some rare cases.
I've a lot of games installed on my HDD, but only a few of them [Most indies!] get regular updates... I can say for sure CS:GO doesn't download anything except the patch itself.
In fact the only way to play it again after my format to Windows 10 were to check the cache integrity.
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I wanna share with you all a good project that a friend of mine shared in turn with me.
Website
GitHub
SourceForge
Reddit
Steam Group
The cleaner saved me around 12 GB of useless executable.
Proofs are on the attached images.
A big thanks to the creator TikiOne.
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