What does it mean when a Steam download says Preallocating? - Arqade

What does it mean when the Steam Downloads screen says Preallocating?

Getting Unable to load Steam.dll when trying to load Peggle Extreme - Arqade

User Liron Yahdav - Stack Overflow

Steam update brings Shader-Pre-Caching to improve load times

Download Time Kb S - Colaboratory

steam - What does players like you love this game mean exactly? - Arqade

Why does it keep downloading every time i log in?? It is eating up my storage! : r/afkarena

How to preload games on Steam explained • TechBriefly

Error failed to get steam account information. : r/PhasmophobiaGame

If steam allocates disk space before download then why do I not have enough storage for download? : r/Steam

Unable to preload on Steam as advertised. APP NOT RELEASED : r/ICARUS

How does preloading on Steam work? Does it start downloading the game automatically when it officially releases? Or do I still have to manually download it? - Quora

technical issues - Steam isn't downloading a game but it thinks it is ('missing executable' error message) - Arqade