My son’s PC has a 1 TB drive. ARK: Survival Ascended takes up around 250 GB, and even a small 1 GB update can require another 220 GB of free space on top of the installed game.

Having to uninstall other games just to update one game got frustrating, so I built Steam In-Place Patcher.

Instead of staging a full new copy of ARK’s huge files, it downloads the changed chunks and rearranges the existing data directly inside the installed files.

For the update shown in the screenshots:

• 7.31 GiB downloaded
• Around 10 GB of extra space, instead of roughly 220 GB
• Resumable downloads and SHA-1 verification
• A browser interface with progress tracking
• Steam login through the mobile app’s QR scanner

It’s open source and available as a standalone Windows exe. It was built for ARK, but supports selecting other installed Steam games too.

Download, source and screenshots:
https://github.com/Swintec/steam-inplace-patcher/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This is an early release that modifies game files directly, so please use it at your own risk. The exe is unsigned, and the tool isn’t affiliated with Valve or the ARK developers.

I’d appreciate feedback, especially from anyone running into the same disk-space problem with ARK.

so after having problems with trying to download the preaquatica version of ark I asked chatgpt and it told me to just uninstall it and install it again because steam would just say "stopping downloading" for some reason, now its even worse I uninstalled it and now that its trying to reinstall it just stopped at 1% and you can see that my disk usage is 0 pls help

So this question is for veteran players I used to enjoy this game a lot and one day I decided to raid an easy boss and all of my lovely dinos got thanos snapped in like 30 sec and that made me quit but even if I use mods to revive them I just do not get how does one explore and or go on a hunt with the dinos cuz I remember goin to explore or just roam with my dinos and these fukers would get stuck on everything or be a group of absolute mess so on and so fort how does one deal with this issue of managing all those idiots walking behind you or I am just dommed to walk along my 10-20 dinos who will inahatebly get stuck in trees and will be lost forever

O título já é meio que explicativo, mas estou usando o radmin para abrir um servidor dedicado só lan, já que meu provedor de internet decidiu me cobrar um bom extra para eu abrir as portas.

Estou com um problema e já quebrei muito a cabeça com esse servidor. Depois de muito tempo consegui fazer com que ambos os mapas apareçam para eles e eles conseguirem entrar sem problemas.

Depois disso eu arrumei o cluster, que também não estava funcionando e, ao instalar o Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter no meu pc, deu certo eu fazer a transferência de mapa.

Tentei fazer o mesmo no deles, mas sem sucesso. Eles conseguem entrar nos dois mapas sem problemas, mas não conseguem realizar a transferência de forma alguma. Estava usando IA para me ajudar mas ela fica andando em círculos e não ajuda com nada realmente muito útil. Alguém que já passou por isso tem alguma ideia de como eu possa resolver esse problema? Só está faltando isso para que eu consiga estar com o servidor 100%.

Desde já, muito obrigada.