Payday 2 and its stupid download method/bug?

[Brother Cockus Humongous]

Is anyone else having this issue when downloading PD2 ?
The game take forever to download ignoring your actual downloadspeed also the installation after downloading takes realy long. But my main problem is that before Steam downloads lets say 3gb for example the download eats up more than 30gb of diskspace and locks it away after the download is finished. For people like me who have their HDD stashed to its limit we quickly run out of disk space and can't continue downloading unless we delete something. Is this supposed to happen ?

[nvm~Panthera Sapiens Quadrapus]

Unfortunately, yes, that's the 'normal' process (nothing abnormal going on with your setup). Each and every time there's an update, be it 30 MB or 3+ GB in size.

Not Steam's doing, but Overkill's very poorly optimised method of patching, (downloading, unpacking, applying update, re-packing, whatever else I may have forgotten or am not aware of).

[Cobra_IronFang]

I found that the easiest way to get around this is to uninstall Payday 2 and then reinstall it.

[Dick Chungus]

Yeah

[nvm~Panthera Sapiens Quadrapus]

Originally posted by Cobra_IronFang:

I found that the easiest way to get around this is to uninstall Payday 2 and then reinstall it.

Actually, I'd have a question about that myself: did you notice any shrinking of the disk space the new intallation takes up?

I was wondering whether that process would end up doing the fresh install without the outdated promotional pening video files.

[Cobra_IronFang]

Tbh i've not actually noticed, i just delete and reinstall, then hope that it will decide that 30-40 gig is enough space.

[nvm~Panthera Sapiens Quadrapus]

LOL. Hope for the best, but definitely be prepared for the worst.

Thanks. Might give it a try at some point and record the numbers.

[Brother Cockus Humongous]

I have a dream that one day Overkill will fix this but until then yep unins and reins works for that matter still the download time is irritating me. It just stops completely for a couple of minutes and when it finishes it takes even more time doing "nothing" D:

[nvm~Panthera Sapiens Quadrapus]

Doing nothing at the end, you mean? Or randomly, mid-dowload?

At the end, that apparent inactivity is due to the unpacking process, writing hte updates to disk, etc. That too takes a good while, especially with bigger updates (500-700 MB and up).

Even ~30 MB can take 10-20 minutes to be fully applied as I recall (hat excludes download time)
Hard to tell, if you happen to forget about it in the backround (or fall asleep), because on top of all else, the installation can stall at the very end, and you need to pause it manually for a moment, then resume, in order for it to finally complete.

[Brother Cockus Humongous]

yeah thats why i used the "-". The unpacking process is like purgatory D:

[Max]

Situation totally normal.
Just wait it out and avoid interrupting download/unpack

[AkiraJkr]

Reinstall btw