How's everyone's patch times?

[H3X]

Not a rant, genuinely curious if there's something off on my end, as I'm on the third timer in Downloads that reads over 20 minutes, for a patch that finished downloading over a half hour ago. This shouldn't be normal right?

FWIW game is on M.2, gigabit ethernet and running on a 9900k/3090/32GB RAM so it's not processing power on the PC side either that I can tell.

[TomasaurusREKT]

After downloading the patches it has to verify the files, that's what takes me a while.

[Kelden]

Had the same myself on 1.03, and i have a SSD Nvme, the top samsung one. It took me 2 minutes to download, 25+ minutes to patch.

First time ive seen that,ever.

Edit, the first 2 patches were fast, so i dunno why this one was a slug.

[76561197961275394]

2 Minutes to download, 5 minutes to patch.

[DeadLine]

Originally posted by Eldeman:

Had the same myself on 1.03, and i have a SSD Nvme, the top samsung one. It took me 2 minutes to download, 25+ minutes to patch.

First time ive seen that,ever.

Same here. It's insane. Then after steam verified the game again and found some missing files, it went and did it all over again.. So it took me close to an hour to update to 1.0.3. The download was fast, but the way the patching process has to go over the entire game folder is just absurd to me. I guess this is how delta upgrades work now. It means valve saves bandwidth, but we as the consumers have to utilize more CPU power to install patches.

[H3X]

Honestly I'm wondering if it's a paging file/virtual memory issue, since the directories are so large maybe it's shunting some of the data into that which slows the update down.

I could be completely wrong in that, but that's my current working theory, since nothing else does this on update. I might try removing virtual memory entirely or just setting aside a dedicated section of one of the M.2s rather than the standard SSD that Windows is on, see if that helps. Will report back when I know more!