Fix the game, update stuck

[Live Love Laugh]

This is like the 5th time this has happened to me.

Problem:
Update stuck at certain percentage (88%)

Solutions:
Verifying game cache (does not work)
Restarting steam/PC (nope)
reinstalling RTW 2 (works, except it should not be sensible for me to install the entire game again if I have a 18MB update)
manually going in file and placing files there (no, does not work)

Any solutions except redownloading the game?
Problem is only at RTW 2, and the only fix seems to be reinstalling this 16 GB game.

[Dreadful Shôwa]

Same problem....

[Grimwear]

Yep...same thing here super annoying and the only game I have that does this. Shogun 2 updated no problem.

[Lyran]

I managed to fix it by going into Steam > Settings > Downloads and then hitting Clear Download Cache.

Dunno if that'll help anyone else, but it luckily and finally worked for me.

[EDIT] - Had it complain about something else when I tried to run it after it finally downloaded. I exited and restarted Steam and it ran fine.

[ianmatmartin]

Yep, really annoying. I changed server location and it finally recahed 100%. The issue now is that AVAST has quarantined the exe file and restoring it from AVAST doesn't work. Entirely stuck for now.

[Sarumoon]

The updating of this game has always been so screwed, its taken 30mins to DL a 18mb patch, WTF?

[Barrelz]

Originally posted by Sarumoon:

The updating of this game has always been so screwed, its taken 30mins to DL a 18mb patch, WTF?

Compression. Its a thing.

[Migz - DH]

Originally posted by Sarumoon:

The updating of this game has always been so screwed, its taken 30mins to DL a 18mb patch, WTF?

Total War: Rome 2 patches don't just involve downloading data, they involve rebuilding pack files. This system means that players don't have to download a huge patch every time CA wants to update the game, but players need a lot of storage space for the process and is dependent upon how fast the system can rebuild the data.

What happens is that Steam downloads the small patch file, 19MB today for me, then copies data from all of the files the patch affects into Steam's "downloading" folder. These are going to be pack files, launcher files, the main executable, whatever, and they are going to take a lot of space, over 30GB for me today. For example from only the pack files, with the DLCs that I have licenses for, these files were copied today:

boot.pack, data.rome2.pack, divided.pack, gaul.pack, greeks.pack, invasion.pack, local_en.pack, local_en_shared_rome2.pack, models_rome2.pack, models2_rome2.pack, models3_rome2.pack, movies_rome2.pack, music_en_shared_rome2.pack, music_rome2.pack, punic.pack, sound_rome2.pack, terrain_rome2.pack, terrain2_rome2.pack, terrain3_rome2.pack, tiles_rome2.pack, tiles2_rome2.pack, tiles3_rome2, and tiles4_rome2.pack.

By using the "downloading" folder, Steam integrates the changes made by the small patch file into the old files that the system already has and finally pushes the new versions back into the "steamapps/common/Total War Rome II" folder.

So, as we can see, this download system means that only a small amount of download data is needed to patch TW:R2, but PC systems need nearly the entire size of the game in spare space and time for the PC to read/write all of that data a couple of times to process the patch. During the patch process, if you look at the patch screen, you'll see that the network activity graph is only active for a very short time, but the disk activity graph is active for a long time. The faster the disk/CPU, the shorter the time that'll take.

I hope that this explains what happens in these patches and why they take far longer than the file size seems to justify.

[Migz - DH]

The above process, btw, is why players whose update sticks need to shutdown Steam, delete the cache located in that "downloading" folder, and ensure that at least 33GB of space is free on the Steam drive (usually C:\\) by deleting other files or uninstalling games before reloading Steam and letting the patch process rebegin.

[Defeatist]

With your advices I managed to finish download. However game aint launching. It says .. update needed.

[Migz - DH]

Originally posted by Manolo:

With your advices I managed to finish download. However game aint launching. It says .. update needed.

Restart Steam again, and if it doesn't work then, I suggest contacting CA/SEGA for support.

[totalwar360]

i get this on every game but after restart it always works

[SamOFire]

I'm stuck at 68% and it won't go any further...

[SamOFire]

Update on this - changing servers did the trick (also did the "clear cache" thing that Lyran suggested above). Anyway, works now, whichever one helped!

[Legolose]

Originally posted by Sarumoon:

The updating of this game has always been so screwed, its taken 30mins to DL a 18mb patch, WTF?

^^^This has been going on for this game on every patch its released from the release of this game so I am guessing its just this game that does this....

[Migz - DH]

Originally posted by Legolose:

Originally posted by Sarumoon:

The updating of this game has always been so screwed, its taken 30mins to DL a 18mb patch, WTF?

^^^This has been going on for this game on every patch its released from the release of this game so I am guessing its just this game that does this....

Read my earlier reply to find out why.