Patch install and verify way too long

[Gebus]

Love that the game is getting so much love around patching and updates, but am I missing something (like a setting in Steam) that stops the 30mb patch taking about 45mins to download+install+verify?

If its from my end can someone explain what I need to do please. If its from the Dev end is there a particular reason that this process is so far removed from other updates on the platform?

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Most likely you have a SSD or HDD with slow random reads/writes. At least that's the most common problem. Getting a better SSD would fix that, if that's the case.
As I don't know your system this is an educated guess, though.

[Ericpwn]

has nothing to do with your hardware its steam and unreal. i have M.2s and ssds still takes 10-15 mins, my brother has m.2 ssd and 9200 rpm hdds takes him 30 mins.

[Gebus]

Originally posted by (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Rusty ♥:

Most likely you have a SSD or HDD with slow random reads/writes. At least that's the most common problem. Getting a better SSD would fix that, if that's the case.
As I don't know your system this is an educated guess, though.

Yeah cant be hardware as, like i said, other games on the platform are installed on the same drive and have bigger patches with less time to update. For some reason every patch seams to go through a full verification at the end of the install, so I am assuming that this is dev side decision.

Would be very happy for someone to point me to a setting if I am wrong that I can change

[Noir]

Originally posted by Gebus:

Originally posted by (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Rusty ♥:

Most likely you have a SSD or HDD with slow random reads/writes. At least that's the most common problem. Getting a better SSD would fix that, if that's the case.
As I don't know your system this is an educated guess, though.

Yeah cant be hardware as, like i said, other games on the platform are installed on the same drive and have bigger patches with less time to update. For some reason every patch seams to go through a full verification at the end of the install, so I am assuming that this is dev side decision.

Would be very happy for someone to point me to a setting if I am wrong that I can change

It likely is your hardware, or your internet (patches take me at most 10 mins, is same for most people), could also be something your os is doing, like windows update for example. Other games have other engines. Use the search function to see the hundred other posts about this and the same answer of UE4 + steam = this kind of patching, also see notes from devs about trying to sort a better way.

[MrMalfor]

why a lot of people complain about a patch, when there was NO patch in the last few days????
and IF there was, i didnt even recognise it (loading times or something). that means, you exagerrate!!!

[Gsites90]

Originally posted by Noir:

Originally posted by Gebus:

Yeah cant be hardware as, like i said, other games on the platform are installed on the same drive and have bigger patches with less time to update. For some reason every patch seams to go through a full verification at the end of the install, so I am assuming that this is dev side decision.

Would be very happy for someone to point me to a setting if I am wrong that I can change

It likely is your hardware, or your internet (patches take me at most 10 mins, is same for most people), could also be something your os is doing, like windows update for example. Other games have other engines. Use the search function to see the hundred other posts about this and the same answer of UE4 + steam = this kind of patching, also see notes from devs about trying to sort a better way.

"It's your hardware" followed by "hundreds of posts about issues and a dev post about how it's UE4 +steam"

All that hot air to make a self defeating argument?

[Gebus]

Originally posted by MrMalfor:

why a lot of people complain about a patch, when there was NO patch in the last few days????
and IF there was, i didnt even recognise it (loading times or something). that means, you exagerrate!!!

How is this even remotely helpful? Perhaps I have not updated from the last one due to other commitments like Christmas. Perhaps I have had other updates que'd that had to happen first. Perhaps if you stopped trolling you would be relevant.

If you update and don't notice how long it it takes to complete then you "exagerrate!!!".......trolls be trolls

[Schmootle]

Originally posted by Gebus:

Originally posted by MrMalfor:

why a lot of people complain about a patch, when there was NO patch in the last few days????
and IF there was, i didnt even recognise it (loading times or something). that means, you exagerrate!!!

How is this even remotely helpful? Perhaps I have not updated from the last one due to other commitments like Christmas. Perhaps I have had other updates que'd that had to happen first. Perhaps if you stopped trolling you would be relevant.

If you update and don't notice how long it it takes to complete then you "exagerrate!!!".......trolls be trolls

This is known issue, on a high speed write m.2 NVME it can still take upwards of 20 minutes to patch these weekly updates. On my system it also needs 60gb of temporary free space (a big ask on my 512gb gaming ssd, for icarus to need 120gb total for game+updates). I mean, I can deal with it, but it's rough when maybe you have maybe 1 hour to knock out some objectives and you spend half of it patching.

Gamers will be gamers though and anyone who doesn't have this issue, or runs steam 24/7 to patch in bg, are going to accuse us of making it up.

[Macdallan]

For probably the 100th time:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/3142946404919844727

Just leave your system alone when you're doing an update. It'll be done quicker if you're not using any of your system's resources. Put the game on a SSD if you have that option, I did and the updates are a lot faster.

[Tyler]

you can get an SSD for 40$ the same SSD i bought several years ago for over 150$ it patches in 10 min or less.. phones have had SSD for a long time now and your pc is ready to move into the modern age. if you have an SSD and its taking forever thats a personal issue.. because mine doesnt take forever.

[Wooly]

Just did a file verifiacation today as I got crashes in loading window - took no more than 5 minutes to patch 13 missing files...

[RealReality]

I get through 1 discussion tops before my games ready to play. Don't even have a high quality SSD.

[Gebus]

Originally posted by Tyler:

you can get an SSD for 40$ the same SSD i bought several years ago for over 150$ it patches in 10 min or less.. phones have had SSD for a long time now and your pc is ready to move into the modern age. if you have an SSD and its taking forever thats a personal issue.. because mine doesnt take forever.

Already have an SSD and the game is installed to it.

[Gebus]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

For probably the 100th time:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/3142946404919844727

Just leave your system alone when you're doing an update. It'll be done quicker if you're not using any of your system's resources. Put the game on a SSD if you have that option, I did and the updates are a lot faster.

Yep, already read the posts. Already followed the recommendations. SSD is used and updates still take a while but only for this game. All other games are fine and quick.

But moving my posts over to the dev forums as user forums are full of "helpful" posts about how because the poster has never experienced the issue so it doesn't exist

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Gebus:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

For probably the 100th time:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/3142946404919844727

Just leave your system alone when you're doing an update. It'll be done quicker if you're not using any of your system's resources. Put the game on a SSD if you have that option, I did and the updates are a lot faster.

Yep, already read the posts. Already followed the recommendations. SSD is used and updates still take a while but only for this game. All other games are fine and quick.

But moving my posts over to the dev forums as user forums are full of "helpful" posts about how because the poster has never experienced the issue so it doesn't exist

The issue exists but there are things you can do that will help (sometimes only slightly). It's a known issue. They're working on it.

I also have several other games that do the exact same thing Icarus does when updating. It's not exclusive to this game. Just because you haven't had that issue doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.