Why does it take so long to install updates?

[☢︎Noob☢]

is it just me or this game takes like a ridiculous amount of time to install updates? I haven't updated it in a while and now im having to sit through multiple 1h long installation processes

[Metallicus]

If you have enough storage and a decent PC it should be a very quick update.

[☢︎Noob☢]

Originally posted by Metallicus:

If you have enough storage and a decent PC it should be a very quick update.

I do

[Vintem]

if the updates is big enough, yes, it take a while replacing old files, even on ssd.

[dulany67]

Google the steam patching process. If the file system used has large container files which hold the files being changed in the patch, the process can be long in combination with the way steam handles patches.

Also, do you have an SSD, because that seems overly long.

[Ereghor the Enigmatic]

It downloads a good ~100 GB of files, doing so in chunks too (with download rate dropping significantly), while also adding/replacing files in your installation folder, going over what needs to be swapped.

Can also be chalked up to Larian's engine being poorly scaleable, since if it takes ~100 GB of data to add some animations, voice lines, and change some shaders and scripts, something is probably wrong in its guts.

[Draknalor]

Just have steam on auto-update

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by ☢︎Noob☢:

Why does it take so long to install updates?
is it just me or this game takes like a ridiculous amount of time to install updates? I haven't updated it in a while and now im having to sit through multiple 1h long installation processes

Here is the good news: it is hardware dependant.

The last update did not take even four minutes for my laptop to finish.

[★REM★]

Can't say it's the same forme, usually takes few minutes.

[Colopatiron]

You have a bad PC and/or internet connection.

[LordXamon]

I believe that the way steams works is that it makes a copy of the files, updates with the new changes, and then overwrites or deletes the old files. If your drive is slow, then yeah it's going to take a while.

Usually not an issue, but since BG3 is rather unique in how it uses MASSIVE file sizes... That's also the reason why big updates also need a lot of free space to get installed. Steam it's basically creating a whole copy of the game in your drive during the duration of the process.

[アンジェル]

Less than 20 seconds this time.

[EricHVela]

This morning gave me something that took no more than 5 seconds for BG3. (I'm thinking 3 seconds.)

(Yes. BG3's still installed even though I'm not currently playing it. I think I'll hop back into BG3 for a spell after I'm done with the PL DLC that I've promised myself I'll play entirely.)

The larger update from yesterday couldn't've been more than 5 minutes if that. The majority of that was the patch post-download.

If it's taking an hour, check your DL speeds and your system specs. (Most games are unpacking at the same rate of my DLs. For patching, much of that happens after the DL.)

[RhiTheWitch]

I only have issues with my Steam Deck or if I'm trying to download the update over Wifi on the computer. Steam Deck is easy, uninstall and reinstall. Takes it from a few hours to like 15-20 minutes max and that's bc it is over Wifi.

When my PC is wired directly, it takes like a couple minutes, if that

[Nuts0n]

In the middle of updating final patch. was only 2.8 gb from what steam tells me, I have very fast internet so that completed quickly. But the "patching files" portion is taking absolutely forever. I have an M.2 SSD, and a very fast cpu, still taking AGES.

[Good Player]

The Patching portion ... at 99% installed in Steam and on SSD, the estimated time remaining to get to 100% from Steam is 3 hours and 20 minutes