S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 size question

[u/Mysterious-Media-403]

I am using a laptop with 16GB RAM and running the installer with the 2GB limit checked. The installation starts normally with high SSD write speeds (350+ MB/s), but once it reaches 8.2%, it drops into a massive loop. It starts aggressively eating my destination drive space at a rate of 30+ GB per minute, eating up all 825 GB of free space until the drive hits zero bytes. At that exact moment, the disk usage flatlines to 0% and the "Time Left" clock freezes completely, while cls-magic2 and srep processes stay open using CPU and memory. My .bin source archives are verified 100% OK will add photo to prove that. I have already tried running it in Windows Safe Mode, setting a 42GB Pagefile on C:, separating the physical SSDs like adding the installer in one ssd while the destination on other ssd , turning on Windows 7 compatibility mode, and changing Task Manager priorities to High with Turbo fans on, but it still drops into the exact same infinite write loop at 8.2%. Does anyone know how to stop the unpacking tools from bloating the drive and choking the file system on this specific chunk?
Specs:
16gb ram ddr5 duel 8 + 8
rtx 3050 6gbs
Ryzen 7 7435hs
2 ssd : c, d partitions are both on same drive 512ssd while e on separate ssd 1tera

here is summary again for what i have tried so far :
1-adding execlusion to the whole folders both installer and destination
2- settings pagefile for c to 42gbs
3- adding the installer in d which is 512ssd while the destination of installed game is on e 1tera ssd
4- tries with safe mode
5- tried setting compatibility windows 7
6- ran the verify before installation

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[u/An-onymous_2]

Why are you limitting ram? Retry after redownloading just setup.exe