Full download goes on forever

[Atmic]

Just downloaded the game, and opted for the full download. However... part 2/2 of the full download doesn't stop at 100%. It goes on past 500% and keeps going and going.

Anyone else run into this?

UPDATE: I was able to get the game started using the standard download, but waiting in-between world switches for downloads is a bit annoying. Oh well.

[Luxspew]

Well, I had got this to play the Chrono Cross content. I went ahead and got the full DL, took about 2 hours on a 1 GB connection. Then the updating and updating and then more updating. So then I finally got to play and the story is OK, I see where they are going and why the Chrono Cross franchise characters would be involved in this story. But now every time i log back in to try and get to chapter 13 (but really 25th chapter) it absolutely kills the experience that I need to keep downloading and updating the game and with unrealistic DL times where sometimes it says I have downloaded over 8000% or more when they said the file size would be 128mbs or so and then it takes another 2 HOURS just to update this game... you guys arent even adding that much content and I dont have time to keep updating a game that isnt even that great. Today was the straw to break the camels back when I tried to log in and its asks me AGAIN for another update!?!?!? I just downloaded a update last night and it took so long i couldnt even log in because by the time it was done I was ready for bed. So I tried again today and its like "you need to download another file thast 1986mbs" like nah, I'll pass, I got other things to do, sorry. So this is why u get a thumbs down. Yasunori Mitsuda is a great composer and I can hear his influence is in this game but this "full game experience, but you need to DL 200000% content and it needs to take 5 hours on one of the fastest fiber connections one can get on a moba experience type platform game" isnt worth the FREE that this game is.

[Asomi]

Pc port is buggy

[SoundsInsane]

*yawn* guess no one decides to adapt to buggy games or fine work arounds and im the player with good computer and crappy internet, yet people complain they cant download with the top tier internet, when mine is less than 25mbs. and yet i can get it to download no problem lol
Downloader is buggy, thats unavoidable, when you accept it, you should wait till it reaches 100% - if it doesnt, and goes beyond 150+ dont try to wait it out.
Relog - and accept it the 2nd time, it should successfully work on the 2nd time around (always doe for me).

When you can sit down, look at a game with a grain of salt thinking its 100% functional, your wrong.
ive played 1 to many games where there is always a issue no matter the game.
Only solutions needed, is to find that workround. people complain all the time. and will always do so.
Doesnt matter how fast your internet is.

Note: if your doing Individual downloads as you progress through the game its Slower.
if you do the Download All, it makes the game less buggy, but it will still be buggy

[リュータ]

Originally posted by SoundsInsane:

*yawn* guess no one decides to adapt to buggy games or fine work arounds and im the player with good computer and crappy internet, yet people complain they cant download with the top tier internet, when mine is less than 25mbs. and yet i can get it to download no problem lol
Downloader is buggy, thats unavoidable, when you accept it, you should wait till it reaches 100% - if it doesnt, and goes beyond 150+ dont try to wait it out.
Relog - and accept it the 2nd time, it should successfully work on the 2nd time around (always doe for me).

When you can sit down, look at a game with a grain of salt thinking its 100% functional, your wrong.
ive played 1 to many games where there is always a issue no matter the game.
Only solutions needed, is to find that workround. people complain all the time. and will always do so.
Doesnt matter how fast your internet is.

Note: if your doing Individual downloads as you progress through the game its Slower.
if you do the Download All, it makes the game less buggy, but it will still be buggy

The thing is... its been like from start of the steam release like this and never get fixed. JP pc release have the similar bug and got fixed after 1 day.

[anasaz]

you're a payer not a player

[Kythlyn]

First time running the game I saw two separate progress bars hit 100% and then keep going to well over 2000% before finally reaching "New Game"

[Cyber Akuma]

The problem is the game downloads itself TWICE, and re-downloads in full every update. This only happens on the PC version (My phone version only downloads the update data it needs).

You know how it says the game takes about 10GB on your drive if you go to properties? Yeah well, that's a lie, it takes actually TWICE as that:

https://i.imgur.com/YJG1cGM.png

When you install it through Steam, the game seems to download all of it's executables and data and such in full... which is a total of 10GB.... and then when you start the game it does an update check.. AND REDOWNLOADS IT'S 8GB OR SO OF ASSETS! Steam's UI doesn't even track this because the game downloads this data on it's own, bypassing Steam. If you look through the game's install folder you will see two sets of the same 8GB of data, just sorted and arranged across subfolders differently.

When the Steam client needs an update.... Steam is able to just patch the few MB they changed/added.

Whenever there is an in-game update though, which happens much more often, it seems to just wipe that additional 8GB of data it downloads... AND THEN RE-DOWNLOAD IT IN FULL! That's why the progress bars that hit 100%. It KNOWS it only needs a few MB of data, and the process bar actually tracks this.... but then it just re-downloads the game in it's entirety anyway.

I have never seen something this badly programmed before. Somehow the game manages to be extremely laggy on my PC but not on my phone too.

[Brocknoth]

The progress bar going over 100% is normal. Not sure if it's a bug but if you just let the game sit the download WILL actually finish. Usually takes like 20-30 mins varying. Full install I don't remember.

As for in-game lag while I do find it annoying restarting the game seems to help fix it. Think it's a memory issue but eh v0v

[anasaz]

"The progress bar going over 100% is normal"

[Cyber Akuma]

Originally posted by anasaz:

"The progress bar going over 100% is normal" :we_zakuro:

I agree, it should not accepted as normal.

[Brocknoth]

Well far as I can tell it's "normal" not sure what else can be done about it. I'm not happy about having to wait x amount of time for the game to update but that seems to be the case here.