Change Update Method

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It is literally 2 - 3 times quicker to uninstall and reinstall the game than update it

[TheKillerNacho]

I assumed this was an exaggeration but nope - patching this game took me 20 minutes on an SSD...

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On SSDs here too. It downloads/installs, then starts patching then installs/patches again. Every patch update has been like this.

[TheKillerNacho]

I guess we can thank the devs for dedicating the time & effort to make the game's update process as optimized as the game itself, at least.

[Charlemagne]

You're right, if uninstalling and reinstalling is faster than updating, that is a problem.
I'm just updating this one now, but recently I had the experience with another game. I had to uninstall and move it to another drive, and it took less time than just updating would.
It was so much better when updates were simple. 955 MB? Well then just download the 955 MB and patch whatever. Not patch the whole 50 GB. They say this is better, but it worked fine with the old way.

[AngelGraves13]

Took less than 3 minutes here

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

I timed it on a modern laptop with a PCIe 4.0 NVMe and it took 9 minutes. I guess with fast enough internet (and no data cap), it would be feasible to just redownload instead of updating.

But, I doubt Virtuos is reading these discussions, let alone taking suggestions from them.

[TeamCaffeine]

The update took about 12 minutes on my Steam Deck, and like five minutes on my computer.

If you think game developers have any control over how fast an update installs on individual machines, I have a plot of land on the Moon I'd like to sell you.

[Wolfpup{EMC}]

Originally posted by AngelGraves13:

Took less than 3 minutes here

IKR. It was a 997MB file....mine took less than 2 minutes start to finish and that was through a VPN. I literally read a couple new posts in a topic and it was done.

I just don't get why it's so bad for others. *blink, blink*

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

Originally posted by Wolfpup{EMC}:

Originally posted by AngelGraves13:

Took less than 3 minutes here

IKR. It was a 997MB file....mine took less than 2 minutes start to finish and that was through a VPN. I literally read a couple new posts in a topic and it was done.

I just don't get why it's so bad for others. *blink, blink*

I wish I would have timed the update on my main desktop with a 5800x3d and a faster Gen 4 NVMe, it did seem faster than my laptop but I dunno if it was the 2-3 mins that some of you are saying. My internet is 600Mbps down, so it’s not like that is what was slowing down the update. (Once you get to be old and in your 30s, 9 minutes kind of *feels like* 2-3 minutes is my point).

And the download size isn’t why it takes so long, it’s because it basically reinstalls the game again, the “patching/verifying” step is what is time consuming, not the downloading of the data itself.

[Uncle-Bin]

~10 minutes from start of download till I could start the game.

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by Wolfpup{EMC}:

Originally posted by AngelGraves13:

Took less than 3 minutes here

IKR. It was a 997MB file....mine took less than 2 minutes start to finish and that was through a VPN. I literally read a couple new posts in a topic and it was done.

I just don't get why it's so bad for others. *blink, blink*

Downloading the file is quick... The problem is it then starts updating the entire 50 GB installation and you can't play til it's done, which can be a while. Maybe it's only a few minutes but when you came expecting to start playing right away, it feels long.
I think what steam does is like a validation.

[SubSonix]

That's unreal engine for you