Why does is it Constantly patching full game?

[The Pig Farmer]

I mainly play on PC and patches are quick and usually go unnoticed. Everytime I open Diablo 4 on Steam Deck it downloads a small update then it patches the full 35 gigs which takes 20 minutes or more. It’s getting pretty annoying at this point it’s the only game that I have played on Steam that has minimum 20 minute wait from hitting play to launching the game.

[Jolly Devil]

That's a Steam Deck thing that not specific to Diablo. The Deck is basically re-downloading all the cache shaders. Some games can have huge downloads that can take several mins. Now why it does this every day, that I don't know. But if you have multiple games installed (I have like 10 in the deck), you'll see it do it for ever game. I have Legacy of Rain Soul Reaver installed, a 25 year told game, and it does the shader download every day for that too.

[The Pig Farmer]

The downloads are small sometimes a few megabytes but patching the full 35 gigs takes forever. This is the only game on Steam Deck that does this for me. If it is all shaders is there a way just to keep them in storage instead of needing redownloaded all the time?

[Jolly Devil]

Originally posted by The Pig Farmer:

The downloads are small sometimes a few megabytes but patching the full 35 gigs takes forever. This is the only game on Steam Deck that does this for me. If it is all shaders is there a way just to keep them in storage instead of needing redownloaded all the time?

I would legit ask this on the Steam Hardware forum. I'm not sure how to stop it from happening, or if it can be stopped. Tbh I've just accepted that it does it every time and just let it do its thing when I boot it up every day. But it can be annoying when you wanna play right now but have to wait for sometimes gigs to download.

[IchigoMait]

It's patching 35GB of files, because that's how big the total sum in size of files is that got patched. It's the same on desktop.
You better be glad the game doesn't have single files with huge sizes, it would be even worse to patch 'em.

The download is small, if it patches files that amount to 35GB, then nothing can be done about it, how else are you gonna rewrite all the files that were updated.
Don't think anyone will bother creating a way that they can insert code wherever they want in whatever order, and delete the old obsolete ones, but if you only needed to change it partially, you still would have to keep the old data aka rewrite it as a new file, end result is just a mess, but data would be in chronological order, and more split files.

Full game is 85GB. If you get it on battle net you can choose an option to not use high res textures, saves around 40-50GB.

[Sinbian Vae`drelin]

This happens to me all the time , 400 meg update reinstalls 80+gigs 30+ mins and does redownload anywhere between 25-50gigs .

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

play last epoch instead or poe 2

[BiggieLev]

Originally posted by TerunagaTV:

play last epoch instead or poe 2

This really isn’t helpful

[ExtraKr1spy]

Originally posted by Sinbian Vae`drelin:

This happens to me all the time , 400 meg update reinstalls 80+gigs 30+ mins and does redownload anywhere between 25-50gigs .

happens with me on steam deck. small updates then half hour patch then starts downloading half the game again. sometimes shader pre cache download will trigger it

[Bullet]

wtf is wrong with u Steam and Blizzzard its downloading whole game again and says "patching" WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are quiting with my friends!!!!!!!!!

[GameKiller]

I have the same problem
I demand moral compensation after the error is corrected

[weebshit]

doing this too me on pc lmfao

[KookiePoo]

BLiZZTARD.

[Craggis19]

Is everyone getting this as a problem over the last few days? It's driving me nuts.

[HoLDoN4Sec]

its Blizzard's fault.
it could be intentional or not, but Blizzard is pushing an entire game build update instead of a incremental update via Steam.
the reason i say it could be Intentional is because Blizzard has earned 30% LESS for your game purchase here on Steam - so maybe they are doing this on purpose to punish us?
but the reason it could also be accidentally is because Blizzard does not really have much experience with Steam, and it could very well be that they just are unaware that they can just push the patch as an incremental update instead of a full game build update?
either way, this kind of crap only happens on the Steam version of the game.

[El Duderino]

Originally posted by Jolly Devil:

That's a Steam Deck thing that not specific to Diablo. The Deck is basically re-downloading all the cache shaders. Some games can have huge downloads that can take several mins. Now why it does this every day, that I don't know. But if you have multiple games installed (I have like 10 in the deck), you'll see it do it for ever game. I have Legacy of Rain Soul Reaver installed, a 25 year told game, and it does the shader download every day for that too.

Nope. I don't have a Steam deck. I play on PC and Diablo 4 does this every time I have an update no matter the size. It only happens with Diablo 4. No other games.