Can't Install Game From Disk

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Not a support question. I purchased the physical edition, the installer connects to Steam and then says the game has not yet been unlocked.

That's cool and all but I literally got the data on disk so why is this something that's locked behind an online connection or timer? I was planning to play it immediately in about an hour but now it looks like I'll have to wait for the installation for no good reason. Please don't handle things this way in the future.

[kelpy]

They dont have a choice, its Steam that does that

[spongeis5]

ayo you bought the physical pc version?? if you don't mind i have a small request, as there should be something interesting on the disc useful for downpatching 👀

[kelpy]

Originally posted by spongeis5:

ayo you bought the physical pc version?? if you don't mind i have a small request, as there should be something interesting on the disc useful for downpatching 👀

you thinking about cut content? Interesting

[spongeis5]

Originally posted by kelpy:

Originally posted by spongeis5:

ayo you bought the physical pc version?? if you don't mind i have a small request, as there should be something interesting on the disc useful for downpatching 👀

you thinking about cut content? Interesting

oh yeah yeah. sort of like battle for bikini bottom rehydrated, the game most likely has a prototype build from 2 months back stashed away on the disc

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Originally posted by kelpy:

They dont have a choice, its Steam that does that

Don't think so, they could probably have allowed preloading which would also allow the disk to install the game

Originally posted by spongeis5:

Originally posted by kelpy:

Originally posted by spongeis5:

ayo you bought the physical pc version?? if you don't mind i have a small request, as there should be something interesting on the disc useful for downpatching 👀

you thinking about cut content? Interesting

oh yeah yeah. sort of like battle for bikini bottom rehydrated, the game most likely has a prototype build from 2 months back stashed away on the disc

Uh... I also have Battle for Bikini Bottom on disk, but anyway, this is what the disk contents looks like:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2926537315
A bunch of .csm and .csd files, I have no idea how to extract them.

Is there any way to check whether Steam automatically downloaded a patch during the install process? Also, the disk has a capacity of 7.3 GB and the install folder is 8.5 GB so either the data was compressed or they needed to download an additional gig

To be fair I'm probably useless when it comes to this sort of stuff so I doubt I'm the right person to request this from. And I can't have someone else take a look since I'm not going to commit pre-mature high seas sailing by uploading the disk to the web

[Lanani]

The game received patches between the disk version being made and today, yes. Hence the current in-game version being 1.0.2.0. This is normal for video games these days.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Yeah for sure, though a patch that makes changes to existing files is rather different from having to download additional content that is straight up missing from the disk. Nowadays, it's fairly common that a game is larger than the capacity of the single disk they include so the rest needs to be downloaded.

Is there any chance that the build on the disk is so drastically different that it's worth checking, since the file creation dates suggest that the build may only be a month and a half old? The second commenter implied this was the case for BFBB Rehydrated, though I've never heard about anything like that

[Lanani]

Speaking in general game development terms, any game that gets released on PS or Xbox needs to have its retail build finalized at least a month in advance to allow time for it to go through Sony's and Microsoft's certification processes. Having a bit of a buffer is always good, so 6-8 weeks old is very realistic for a disc build.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Very interesting. I thought they only cared to certify the digitally distributed files since those are ultimately what matters, even for the retail version. This has me wonder how day one patches are possible since those must have been through the same certification process time, or are there exceptions for that?

And, does this usually happen in conjunction with the PC retail release? Since there are no certification requirements on PC

[spongeis5]

Originally posted by 0D GD&D :OJ:

Originally posted by kelpy:

They dont have a choice, its Steam that does that

Don't think so, they could probably have allowed preloading which would also allow the disk to install the game

Originally posted by spongeis5:

oh yeah yeah. sort of like battle for bikini bottom rehydrated, the game most likely has a prototype build from 2 months back stashed away on the disc

Uh... I also have Battle for Bikini Bottom on disk, but anyway, this is what the disk contents looks like:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2926537315
A bunch of .csm and .csd files, I have no idea how to extract them.

Is there any way to check whether Steam automatically downloaded a patch during the install process? Also, the disk has a capacity of 7.3 GB and the install folder is 8.5 GB so either the data was compressed or they needed to download an additional gig

To be fair I'm probably useless when it comes to this sort of stuff so I doubt I'm the right person to request this from. And I can't have someone else take a look since I'm not going to commit pre-mature high seas sailing by uploading the disk to the web

in sku.sis (you can open it in notepad), there should be a line that looks like

"manifests"
{
"969991" "1586507095676886083"

it would be the long random string of numbers at the end :)

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

It says
"manifests"
{
"1282151" "4973077442915942009"

[SenilBiffen]

hmm theres a bff edition for 250 dollars.

[spongeis5]

sweet! the manifest works! thank you :D

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

It's on the servers? Weird

[M4D_MAXX_]

I got the issue, the installation start from CD, but abort and switch to download all the time. What's the whole point of the CD? 7gig of waste