Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing?
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day agoThe SD card thing was something I definitely saw a ton of others with the issue of when I knew the exact description of what was happening, but it's been a few months.
When you go to install a game it does something to the effect of "provisioning space for game" and it was taking me minutes to hours before it would install some games.
The card I have is this PNY one. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DM9NNMND So far i'm using only maybe 15% of the space. I noticed it when I first got it and was downloading a couple of games, not even necessarily large ones.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah I haven’t had that problem at all and I have put some pretty big games on them. I think the latest one I am using is a SanDisk 1TB Extreme microSDXC UHS
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day ago
Apparently the issue is games that have very many tiny files that aren't all inside of one larger file. This is a thread that sounds about right: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tcomih/reserving_space_extremely_slow_on_sd_card/
So if a game is like GW2 and has nothing but a couple of extramassive files, it's very fast to allocate the space. If tha game has hundreds of thousands of very tiny files, it takes forever to allocate the space.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That is really interesting, Thanks!