Patch taking forever (LARIAN!)

[Sir Mon]

First Steam makes a copy of the game (original Game is located on SSD (100GB free space), copy is made on HDD) - 25 min
Patch is downloaded - 10 min
Patch is applied to Version on the HDD - 30 min
Game on the SSD is deleted - 2 min
Game from the HDD is "installed" on the SSD - 2 hours already, estimated time to finish: over a year

how fun, a 3.6 GB big patch is transfering over 240GB of Data and taking longer than 3 hours.
In case it should really take over a year to install this patch, that's it for the early access version for me then. But hopefully until then the patchroutine doesn't look like a Horror-storry one hard drive would read to another one

going to go back watching the install loading bar, exciting times ahead

[pentallion]

Update keeps pausing, can't finish the update.

Once it reaches 1.67 GB the update stops. When I resume update, it starts over at 1.63 GB, gets to 1.67 and stops again.

[Woodland_Wizard]

same problem but with just over 500MB
if I start the update in the Downloads tab it gives me the error message, about not being able to install on an FAT32, while the game is clearly installed on NTFS

[Sanctified Reach 420]

how fun, a 3.6 GB big patch is transfering over 240GB of Data and taking longer than 3 hours. same here, patch won't stop after 3.6 gigs lol.....

[CurtisNewton]

Download doesnt finish

downloaded at 100% speed all the 60 gb and now its not stoping / installing.

[LordValerius]

Wasn't there a similar problem with the last patch? C'mon knuckleheads!

[Kivy]

yea... I get a steam write error only on this game and nothing else

[Siozen]

It took my system 46mins total, just finished. The irony being that two ssd's (BG3 on a 3rd drive) had over 100GB free but it uses the HDD with 200GB free.

[alrik1119]

♥♥♥♥!

[Sanctified Reach 420]

this patch is poorly implemented for a 70$ game.....

3.6 gigs and it was done an hour ago..... and i am not the only one with this issue... take a look around.... Dev's please do something, anything.....

[jimtaggerty]

Everything seems to be a bit ''hit or miss'' with this games patches, I've had zero problems with them but, reading the forums, a lot of others seem to be having major problems.

[★REM★]

Took me about 10 or 15 minutes on a M2 SSD.

I really blame Valve for this.

[Silverthorn]

Bug with Patching? - HUGE space requirements...

Hi,

Was just wondering - why do the update patches require such a huge amount of drive space for patching? The game reserves ~80Gb of drive space even if the patch then says it's only a 4Gb update (as the last patch did)...

[Rez Elwin]

I am unsure what the reason is but it might not be a bug and just the way their engine is built. Unreal Engine for example requires entire parts of the game to be redownloaded for even small patches.

[alanc9]

IIRC it's a Steam thing. It duplicates your whole install, applies a relatively small patch, and swaps the new version for the original if the patch process worked.

In theory, this should eliminate a busted update forcing you to download the whole game again.

[zenebatos1]

And thats when after 2 hours the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing doesn't show "corrupted disk"...