59 GB patch?

[vaughngw]

I guess devs think we have endless harddrives with their massive patches. Looks like another game I'l uninstall and never play because I'm not going to uninstall other games just to have enough space to patch Cyberpunk.

[MercuryE6b]

Originally posted by vaughngw:

I guess devs think we have endless harddrives with their massive patches. Looks like another game I'l uninstall and never play because I'm not going to uninstall other games just to have enough space to patch Cyberpunk.

You must have a lot of time on your hands to fill up a HDD with games. Recommend any good ones? Joking aside. Yea. The large patch's are a bit excessive that don't fix more than you think they would.

[S T R I V E]

1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD M.2 Internal Solid State Drive - up to 2 tb for under 100 its not that expensive for cheaper brands i got like 4 - 5 games installed still got 700 gb
EDIT : Kingston FURY Renegade are good .

[The Dapper Dragon]

The amount of people on Steam who don't understand how patches work is absolutely stunning.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by The Dapper Dragon:

The amount of people on Steam who don't understand how patches work is absolutely stunning.

You could just, tell the OP how patches work. Just sayin'.

Up to you.

[Hellfire77]

I'll say it. The 59gb patch isnt actually adding 59gb to the gamesfile size. Most patches are replacing files so the actual amount added to the games file size is minimal to none.

[Titan Awaken]

Aside from the fact that [#1] there was no 59GB patch (meaning PEBCAK) and [#2] the last offical patch[steamdb.info] was on June 23, 2023, Steam updates are evidently not cumulative in size.

That is to say, a 20GB update doesn’t actually add 20GB to the game’s installation size. I mean it’s pretty damn obvious to anyone with a basic degree of common sense that that isn’t how patches work on Steam. Take a minute to think about it logically:

Over the past 2.5+ years the game has been out, the game has received countless updates some ranging from a few hundred megabytes to tens of gigabytes in size. If each update added to the installation size cumulatively, this game, at the bare goddamn minimum, would be over 200GB+ in size if not over 300GB. Yet a vanilla game install only reaches 70-80GB maximum in size. Hell, even with a heavily modded game, the folder size seldom reaches in excess of 100GB+.

Why?

Because that’s evidently not how Steam updates work. Steam game files are stored in bulk encrypted files many of which are GBs in size. If the developers want to update a single, specific file/feature etc, you have to re-download the entire encrypted file and hence why updates can be massive in size. It’s not really hard to understand.

[Qstar]

Originally posted by pEEK:

1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD M.2 Internal Solid State Drive - up to 2 tb for under 100 its not that expensive for cheaper brands i got like 4 - 5 games installed still got 700 gb
EDIT : Kingston FURY Renegade are good .

Could even go with portable 3TB-4TB SSD. SanDisk makes great drives. Works for PS5 and holds a decent amount of games.

[Bogmore]

Sounds to me like that's a full installation, maybe the game thinks it's corrupt.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Kei]

Originally posted by vaughngw:

I guess devs think we have endless harddrives with their massive patches. Looks like another game I'l uninstall and never play because I'm not going to uninstall other games just to have enough space to patch Cyberpunk.

what patch? i haven't gotten any update

[Draxx The Spy Master]

I lived past the age of 720KB floppy disk, so I'd say the storage technology are pretty good now :P [/quote]

I was just talking the other day I remember when my brother brought home one of the first mp3 players, a 32 mb Rio!

But yeah, I remember the mega floppy disks. Oregon Trail in the school computer lab lets goooo.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

The floppy disk was ground breaking for me when it first came out. I started on a TI99/4 with a cassette deck for storage. Took almost an hour just to load a game or program.

[Jelly]

Originally posted by Draxx, the Spy Master:

I lived past the age of 720KB floppy disk, so I'd say the storage technology are pretty good now :P

I was just talking the other day I remember when my brother brought home one of the first mp3 players, a 32 mb Rio!

But yeah, I remember the mega floppy disks. Oregon Trail in the school computer lab lets goooo. [/quote]

Man I miss Oregon Trail

[Dasparado]

I have to uninstall this game, (and others) everytime they want to patch it. Its incredibly annoying to need that much space. I dont know why but I am ALWAYS out of space. It does not matter how much hard drive space I have, it gets filled up.

[random smile]

Originally posted by Titan Awaken:

Aside from the fact that [#1] there was no 59GB patch (meaning PEBCAK) and [#2] the last offical patch[steamdb.info] was on June 23, 2023, Steam updates are evidently not cumulative in size.

That is to say, a 20GB update doesn’t actually add 20GB to the game’s installation size. I mean it’s pretty damn obvious to anyone with a basic degree of common sense that that isn’t how patches work on Steam. Take a minute to think about it logically:

Over the past 2.5+ years the game has been out, the game has received countless updates some ranging from a few hundred megabytes to tens of gigabytes in size. If each update added to the installation size cumulatively, this game, at the bare goddamn minimum, would be over 200GB+ in size if not over 300GB. Yet a vanilla game install only reaches 70-80GB maximum in size. Hell, even with a heavily modded game, the folder size seldom reaches in excess of 100GB+.

Why?

Because that’s evidently not how Steam updates work. Steam game files are stored in bulk encrypted files many of which are GBs in size. If the developers want to update a single, specific file/feature etc, you have to re-download the entire encrypted file and hence why updates can be massive in size. It’s not really hard to understand.

What if your just a gamer and not an IT tech or PC enthusiast? How are you meant to know how patches actually work? It's not like steam tells you.. All steam says is downloading 20GB for example... Honestly I thought it always added to file sizes.. cause every time A major patch comes up , my drives get a bit fuller.. I only play games, so I appreciate the information on how patches actually work.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by vaughngw:

I guess devs think we have endless harddrives with their massive patches. Looks like another game I'l uninstall and never play because I'm not going to uninstall other games just to have enough space to patch Cyberpunk.

That is on Steam, not Cyberpunk devs. I'm fairly sure those are "fake" downloads, and if you measure actual download size, it would be far smaller. The dead giveaway about the "fakeness" of those "giant patches" is that a 59gb patch was probably downloaded in mere seconds.
Steam "stockpiles" patches, and, depending on how many you've received earlier, it increases the "bytes affected on the drive" value report. If you actually reset download cache, it'll stop spooking you with high numbers.

Either way, it always show you "affected on drive" and "downloaded" values. One is about how many bytes were moved on your drive, and the second is about the actual size of files. Always keep in mind that the downloaded patches often consist of fully replaced files(basically, you download a 113kb file, and it replaces a 110kb file, which means the taken space on your drive only increased by 3kb)