I have a 64gb original steam deck and despite cleaning shaders and stuff I still have 32gb of data being eaten up by I have no idea what… any idea what I can do to help clear up this space as it’s making it impossible to install lutris and new apps to the deck

  • Sea-Garlic9074@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Did you install any software like emulators from the Desktop Mode? Those updates and installs of software from Desktop Mode can also affect the amount of space on the internal SSD besides the shader cache.

  • CommanderCrabapple@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In desktop mode, open the Discover store and download Disk Usage Analyser. Running that will tell you everything that is using up ya disk.

  • poyomannn@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If you have cryoutilities installed, uninstall it. It is no longer beneficial (if it ever was lol) and wastes 15gb of storage for swap.

    • Sirensx122@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I do have it installed. I did find it to be very useful actually with games such as Forza Horizon 5 and final fantasy 13, however I wasn’t sure if the newest update changed anything on the os

      • poyomannn@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        okay, but you were asking what your “other” was. 15gb of it is swap from cryo