[ERROR] Cant Uninstall or Update POE

[DLD | Moogsaurio]

So, i have de 29,5 GB Update, and it wont donwload. I have tried to uninstall the whole game, but STEAM CRASHES. Dont know why, but i cant stop downloading it. I want to download other games but Steam dont let me do it.
Im just sick of this error. I need a solution to uninstall once for all the game.

Anyone whit the same problem?

[The_Driver]

So did you try to manually delete the games files, the download directory and the manifest file while steam is not running?

Depending on your local setup, this means deleting
...\steamapps\appmanifest_238960.acf
...\steamapps\common\Path of Exile\
...\steamapps\downloading\

If you want to delete your local config as well (although you might just keep that and use it for the standalone or later), it's (usually) at
...\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\

Originally posted by TyC Sports:

So, i have de 29,5 GB

That doesn't sound like an update, more like a redownload with extra steps. The games install folder isn't even that large.

[DLD | Moogsaurio]

Yes, sorry, i didnt update the game, i reinstall it. But the problem is what i wrote.

I didnt try to delete the files manually. Im doing that right now, hoping it works.

Thx 4 the help, and sorry 4 the bad english xd

[Cr8ToR]

Frak PoE on steam im waiting 20 mins and counting for 1.7MB patch
ONE POINT SEVEN MEGABYTE PATCH. Frak steam and re-instaling the whole fracking game over and over and over again every time ggg decide to change 1-2 Mb skins or some ♥♥♥♥
Just download standalone client

[Singrave]

use SSD

[Cr8ToR]

Originally posted by lameover:

use SSD

duuh i have ssd.
im sick of ppl telling me "huurpa durp use an ssd duuur"

[Singrave]

then won't matter if you'd use standalone client.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by Cr8ToR:

Originally posted by lameover:

use SSD

duuh i have ssd.
im sick of ppl telling me "huurpa durp use an ssd duuur"

a healthy and well-performing SSD dont need 20min for 25GB moving around, thats more like HDD speeds here.

so either...
- your SSD underperform
- you run a lot of disk intensive stuff in the background
- your steam uses an HDD for patching, which can happen sometimes when the SSD has not enough space for the patch.

[Singrave]

how steam "patching" games
https://steamcommunity.com/app/238960/discussions/0/2590022385673291958/#c2590022385673385257
https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/650wim/19gb_required_for_200mb_patch_okay_steam/dg7w4ya/

as you can see, steam doing too much unnecessary work
PoE has ONE 27Gb big content file that steam must copy everytime for every patch.

how to go standalone without re-downloading the whole game
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1839008/page/1

when you click Install it just make a folder with some files but without MAIN big file
you can move\copy your steam Content.gppk file to this new made folder so game won't download it again

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by lameover:

when you click Install it just make a folder with some files but without MAIN big file
you can move\copy your steam Content.gppk file to this new made folder so game won't download it again

Then you'll use the bloated steam version of the file that's quite a few Gigabytes larger than a clean install would take up. -.-'

Originally posted by lameover:

PoE has ONE 27Gb big content file that steam must copy everytime for every patch.

Not all patches hit that file, but admittedly most do. Steam doesn't have to from a technological point-of-view. And for reference, that file is about 19 GiB on "clean-ish" standalone (based on the size of my file, which is generated from the Legion torrent and updated from there, so about 3 months of junk at most, instead of being bloated since release like the steam version).

But then again that wasn't even Grumpys point. (Which was more about how long it takes given the IO steam uses on drives/devices that have a decent performance)

[Cr8ToR]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Originally posted by Cr8ToR:

duuh i have ssd.
im sick of ppl telling me "huurpa durp use an ssd duuur"

a healthy and well-performing SSD dont need 20min for 25GB moving around, thats more like HDD speeds here.

so either...
- your SSD underperform
- you run a lot of disk intensive stuff in the background
- your steam uses an HDD for patching, which can happen sometimes when the SSD has not enough space for the patch.

erm i have 500 Gig Samsung evo, so if there's better ssd plz do tell.
i have more than 200 gig free space on that drive and i dont even open mozlia / chrome

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Cr8ToR:

Originally posted by Grumpy:

a healthy and well-performing SSD dont need 20min for 25GB moving around, thats more like HDD speeds here.

so either...
- your SSD underperform
- you run a lot of disk intensive stuff in the background
- your steam uses an HDD for patching, which can happen sometimes when the SSD has not enough space for the patch.

erm i have 500 Gig Samsung evo, so if there's better ssd plz do tell.
i have more than 200 gig free space on that drive and i dont even open mozlia / chrome

Sorting https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ by average write speed yields Rocket 4 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB as a better alternative with 3414 MB/s instead of the best Samsung with 2173 MB/s.

And for what it's worth, I have a Samsung SSD myself, 750 EVO (and on a SATA port that doesn't even do it justice), so rather low-end, and it still takes half an hour... somehow the data rate during the update goes way down (as seen in resmon), starts good but throttles for some reason, dunno why yet.

[Cr8ToR]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Originally posted by Cr8ToR:

erm i have 500 Gig Samsung evo, so if there's better ssd plz do tell.
i have more than 200 gig free space on that drive and i dont even open mozlia / chrome

Sorting https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ by average write speed yields Rocket 4 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB as a better alternative with 3414 MB/s instead of the best Samsung with 2173 MB/s.

And for what it's worth, I have a Samsung SSD myself, 750 EVO (and on a SATA port that doesn't even do it justice), so rather low-end, and it still takes half an hour... somehow the data rate during the update goes way down (as seen in resmon), starts good but throttles for some reason, dunno why yet.

It's not about an SSD, did some googling , i need to move steam instalation to an ssd as well it seems. This stupid system is prelocating whole game back to my HDD -__- ... well done steam, well done

[Singrave]

@The_Diver i've installed game 08/29 on steam :) so, no "3 months of junk"
i can easily re-download the game.
@Cr8ToR your SSD is ok, read my links. And go to standalone.

I now have 2 folders - steam and standalone. i've deleted content.gppk from standalone folder for now, so i will just re-download it when 3.8 drops tomorrow.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by lameover:

@The_Diver i've installed game 08/29 on steam :) so, no "3 months of junk"

It's irrelevant when you install the game on steam for that, as the steam version of the file is a bit-for-bit-identical version for everyone using steam, that's been growing since release instead of ever being rebuilt. Hence the bloat.