Stuck in so far infinite loop of trying to download and install patch.

[dgresevfan]

Since the last update(s) the game won't launch and instead it kept forcing me to download patches, which would download but then get stuck part way through the install process. I've tried clearing the download cache several times.

Every time it was apparently downloading over 30GB, as if the entire game install is being replaced. Why on earth is it doing that?

It finally seemed to install after I also cleared some space on the drive (maybe it needed room to move files around?) and it said it was 100% installed and ready to run.

But then when I launched the game I just got Unreal engine crash log windows.

Tried validating the game files and it said four files needed to be redownloaded and STARTED DOWNLOADING 20GB OF FILES AGAIN.

For the love of god what the hell is going on here?

[xXXAarzyXXx]

just you i think bro.. its not downloading 30GB. its paching a 30GB game so maybe only downloading 2-3 GB .. last update was only 800MB. sounds like your runing low on space :/

[dgresevfan]

It keeps telling me the download progress is whatever % out of 30 something GB though. Possibly just Steam being stupid in how it displays it I suppose, but it is taking a long time to download and my internet isn't all that slow.

[StellarSkys]

Is it your write speed being bad? Is it the left x outa 30 or the right x outa 30?

Left is what’s downloaded. Right is what’s written. If you are using a hard drive it can take awhile.

[Vintersol]

What the 30gb isnt a download but it patching the game because the download is on a different drive to the game. One possible fix is to clear the download cache and change your download location for steam to the drive the game is on.

[dgresevfan]

I found that my main OS partition was overly full of various crap so I cleared out a whole bunch of that and also cleared some space on the game install drive and it installed successfully. Might have improved performance to some extent too but we'll see when a horde shows up.

I'm not sure where Steam is putting the downloaded files before patching the game. Maybe that's the problem.

[dgresevfan]

I cleared up a bunch of space and I did manage to play yesterday but today it's back to downloading updates then taking forever to install the patches.

Any ideas? It downloaded one earlier and finally seemed to finish and showed the "play" button but before I could open up the game it started downloading another bloody patch.

And they are all ridiculously huge considering what the actual changes are in the patch notes.

[StellarSkys]

Originally posted by dgresevfan:

I cleared up a bunch of space and I did manage to play yesterday but today it's back to downloading updates then taking forever to install the patches.

Any ideas? It downloaded one earlier and finally seemed to finish and showed the "play" button but before I could open up the game it started downloading another bloody patch.

And they are all ridiculously huge considering what the actual changes are in the patch notes.

So the reason why the updates are so big is because it runs on unreal 5. As unreal is owned by epic a direct competitor of steam, steam and epic are in a ♥♥♥♥ measuring contest and so neither really wants to cooperate on fixing how unreal engine updates on steam. Sometimes some devs can manage to get unreal to handle updates better but most games on unreal download and update in a really suboptimal way and neither side wants to fix it and are blaming the other. With us the consumers and game devs caught in the cross fire.

Also after today the devs are going on a 2 day break for updates and will go onto a more regular update schedule once they get back.

[xXXAarzyXXx]

Bro invest in 2 SSD's one just for Windows and the other just for games. Format your pc and start fresh gl
Ssd are not expensive anymore you can get like a realy cheap secondhand one of fb market place for like £20/$15 like a 1 Tb one

[dgresevfan]

Originally posted by xXXDiggerXXx:

Bro invest in 2 SSD's one just for Windows and the other just for games. Format your pc and start fresh gl
Ssd are not expensive anymore you can get like a realy cheap secondhand one of fb market place for like £20/$15 like a 1 Tb one

I have multiple SSDs including a 4TB one. Windows is installed on its own partition. This game install is on another partition of the same SSD. I think this copy of Steam unfortunately is lurking on my old hard drive but I'm not sure if that is contributing to the problem since apparently updates should download to the drive the game is on.

I've been spending quite some time finding and deleting unwanted files like the 5 million copies of graphics drivers the geniuses at Nvidia make appear all over your computer every time you install a driver.

Found over 10 GB in the Arma 2 folder despite having uninstalled Arma 2 ages ago. DayZ files perhaps.