Stop these 90gb updates!

[Perahoky]

Hello,

these 90gb patching updates which take 1 hour for 10s downloading are annoying as ♥♥♥♥. please.
The developers should restrucutre the files and packages into smaller ones to stop the big files patching.
Or whatever it takes to reduce this patching overhead.

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1. this game never had a 90gb update, the updates are much smaller, but they patch 90gb of data (in your case)
2. your install is 90gb cause you have the high res texture pack installed, it's 65gb~ without it

[PhoenixTheSage]

Get over it. Large compressed packages are far more efficient for read/write performance, particularly for games where things need to stream quickly. Audio and textures these days are big, there's no going back. Get better internet or have some patience and shut up.

[Attricus]

My updates are downloading 2,5GB not 90GB. And it takes around 5 minutes to finish and play.

[Perahoky]

where does this game specify a "high res pack" ? and where does it write 65gb? the store page lists 90gb.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Perahoky:

where does this game specify a "high res pack" ? and where does it write 65gb? the store page lists 90gb.

cause it's accounting for the high res pack

game properties -> dlc

[Aawesom]

These updates are retarded since it's not game updates, but launcher updates (same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with EA/Ubi/Rockstar titles). I say retarded since it WILL re-download & update the launcher once you launch the game anyway.
D4 updates are especially annoying on Steam for Linux since it will download on the drive where D4 is located, then PATCH IT IN YOUR HOME DIRECTORY regardless of the game install path. So if you don't have 120gigs available in your home directory when the update began, your system is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up (thanks!).

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aawesom:

These updates are retarded since it's not game updates, but launcher updates (same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with EA/Ubi/Rockstar titles).

no, they're game updates, not launcher updates, you can check it on steamdb and this game doesn't use any launchers, bnet is not required

https://steamdb.info/app/2344520/patchnotes/

can also check the changes on the official site

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24140808/diablo-iv-patch-notes

[Aawesom]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von space:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aawesom:

These updates are retarded since it's not game updates, but launcher updates (same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with EA/Ubi/Rockstar titles).

no, they're game updates, not launcher updates, you can check it on steamdb and this game doesn't use any launchers, bnet is not required

https://steamdb.info/app/2344520/patchnotes/

can also check the changes on the official site

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24140808/diablo-iv-patch-notes

Thx for the heads up

[themig29]

It was a 2.5GB patch and took a few minutes (with the high res pack installed).

[𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓪❌𝓮𝓼]

Same to me here, every single time there is an update, it downloads just fine (2gbs and so), and then I have to wait for the 80-90gb download again. Soooo annoying. This doesn't happen with other games and I mean... it's really a pain in the ***

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ø𝕝𝕕Ş𝕟𝕒𝕜𝕖:

Same to me here, every single time there is an update, it downloads just fine (2gbs and so), and then I have to wait for the 80-90gb download again. Soooo annoying. This doesn't happen with other games and I mean... it's really a pain in the ***

it's not an "80-90gb" download, it doesn't download that much, it PATCHES that amount of data, it unpacks the files, applies the changes, and then repacks

[Neithan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aawesom:

These updates are retarded since it's not game updates, but launcher updates (same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with EA/Ubi/Rockstar titles). I say retarded since it WILL re-download & update the launcher once you launch the game anyway.
D4 updates are especially annoying on Steam for Linux since it will download on the drive where D4 is located, then PATCH IT IN YOUR HOME DIRECTORY regardless of the game install path. So if you don't have 120gigs available in your home directory when the update began, your system is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up (thanks!).

Before posting useless rants, maybe activate your brain and do 10sec of research:
Diablo on Steam does NOT, I repeat, NOT use the Battlenet Launcher. On Steam, the game will start directly, without any additional launcher in between. It has just to be linked to a Battlenet account.

And Blizzard has absolutely nothing to do with the immense patching process on Steam. On Bnet, the same patches are done in <1min. It's simply a problem of STEAM and their patching process, having to process the whole install of a game even when only a little part is patched.

And if you moan about the home directory... where do you have Steam installed? On your home directory maybe?

[MAJikMARCer]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aawesom:

So if you don't have 120gigs available in your home directory when the update began, your system is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up (thanks!).

I had this on Windows too. My drive is not huge (ha! half a terabyte) and with three games installed these BIG updates often chew up my free space to an alarming degree. There are certainly efficiencies that could be made.

To suggest we shut up and get faster internet and bigger hard drives is why software today is so freaking bloated. Big business has made efficiency a bad word and too expensive. Damn shame.

[Aawesom]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Neithan:

Before posting useless rants,

If your system went corrupted because of poor quality of programs, you would have done the same.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Neithan:

And Blizzard has absolutely nothing to do with the immense patching process on Steam. On Bnet, the same patches are done in <1min. It's simply a problem of STEAM and their patching process, having to process the whole install of a game even when only a little part is patched.

Ok that's good to know. Steam is trying to be everything at once, but it does most of the things quite poorly.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Neithan:

And if you moan about the home directory... where do you have Steam installed? On your home directory maybe?

You're missing the point. A game + their DLCs + their compatdata folders + temp + anything related to this game are all located in the Steam library directory for this specific game.
The fact that Steam uses arbitrary another Steam Library folder (in this case, steamapps/ from ~/.local/share/Steam) for this title is buggy behaviour.

[FhqwhTODD]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Attricus:

My updates are downloading 2,5GB not 90GB. And it takes around 5 minutes to finish and play.

These people are on a laughably bad system called "Steamdeck". Nothing will help them.