Why the updates take hours to download and install?

[💥MaD MaT💥]

i played 100 plus games and never experience this,, for a 500mb update i need to wait 30 mins!

[StellarSkys]

Originally posted by Mr Mat:

i played 100 plus games and never experience this,, for a 500mb update i need to wait 30 mins!

as far as i can tell its a common issue with unreal 4 engine, and how steam handles updates.

[Pach]

So, first, check your Steam settings, to make sure you aren't downloading to another (slower) drive. Some people have found Steam had a temp directory to a mechanical drive, or to the OS drive, which very much slowed down the downloads. To check:

Go to the "Steam" menu at the top left corner of this window. It's very small: "Steam, View, Friends, Games, Help", above the much larger "Store, Library, Community" menus.

Select "Settings" from the Steam menu.

In the new popup window, select "Downloads" on the left side. Then on the right side, there is a button at the top "Steam Library Folders". Click that.

Check for multiple entries. Remove any that are on older or fuller drives (e.g. the drive your operating system is on, or any mechanical drives).

Also, make sure you have plenty of space on the install drive: you often need more space than is needed just for the update.

This, and a large reason why the updates are slow, is because of how Steam handles updates with the Unreal engine. It has to basically check every single file in the package for changes, which may mean downloading lots of files again. This problem is NOT an Icarus problem: any game using Unreal has this same issue. You can see it with for example, ARK Survival Evolved, which also uses Unreal.

Unreal and Steam need to get together and work out a resolution, but it doesn't look promising.

Hope this helps...

[💥MaD MaT💥]

Originally posted by Pach:

So, first, check your Steam settings, to make sure you aren't downloading to another (slower) drive. Some people have found Steam had a temp directory to a mechanical drive, or to the OS drive, which very much slowed down the downloads. To check:

Go to the "Steam" menu at the top left corner of this window. It's very small: "Steam, View, Friends, Games, Help", above the much larger "Store, Library, Community" menus.

Select "Settings" from the Steam menu.

In the new popup window, select "Downloads" on the left side. Then on the right side, there is a button at the top "Steam Library Folders". Click that.

Check for multiple entries. Remove any that are on older or fuller drives (e.g. the drive your operating system is on, or any mechanical drives).

Also, make sure you have plenty of space on the install drive: you often need more space than is needed just for the update.

This, and a large reason why the updates are slow, is because of how Steam handles updates with the Unreal engine. It has to basically check every single file in the package for changes, which may mean downloading lots of files again. This problem is NOT an Icarus problem: any game using Unreal has this same issue. You can see it with for example, ARK Survival Evolved, which also uses Unreal.

Unreal and Steam need to get together and work out a resolution, but it doesn't look promising.

Hope this helps...

this happening only with icarus tho

[Nicademus]

i update in under 10 min every time and so do all my friends who play and i can uninstall and reinstall whole game in 30-40 min it has to be something on your end maybe get better pc or internet or try something better than wifi idk

[Subak]

Originally posted by Mr Mat:

this happening only with icarus tho

If this is the only larger size game you are playing recently, it could possibly be something like your drives running out of space. It might also be that a drive involved is starting to fail and it's starting to write to the bits that are near death because that's where there is space available.

[Pach]

Could be the only Unreal engine game you play?

[johndai]

Mine updates in about 6mins and I'm using a gaming laptop with ethernet connection. Wifi would be a lot lot slower. Direct connection is always the best option.