Updates larges than 100GB everyday????

[Ale Bertz]

What is going on? Is just with me, my son and husband that everyday ARK needs an update at least of 100GB? My son's PC doesn't support anymore. Everyday to him play I need to reinstall the whole game instead of update! And today this happened to me and my husband. Is anyone with the same problem??? How to solve?

[GingerBreadMan]

Huh???

[Seelenschwarz]

Last update was 831 MB

[Zuqpain]

It`s downloading 104 GB (update 800 MB), Installs 104 GB. Its taking me over 1h to get the updates each day, somethimes up to 2 hours. Its anoing coming home from work and lose 2 hours playtime due to having to install all the game again. This have happend 3/4 days now, so total time lost since start is several days, waiting for it to install the game again. Never seen this waste of time in any other game iv played on Steam.

[Witski]

Originally posted by Zuqpain:

It`s downloading 104 GB (update 800 MB), Installs 104 GB. Its taking me over 1h to get the updates each day, somethimes up to 2 hours. Its anoing coming home from work and lose 2 hours playtime due to having to install all the game again. This have happend 3/4 days now, so total time lost since start is several days, waiting for it to install the game again. Never seen this waste of time in any other game iv played on Steam.

Almost every big game works like that lol

[Zem]

It's downloading 800MB not 105GB. That's the data it's applying the patch to.

[Timicro]

sounds like need a bigger hard drive or make some space on it. as others have said, it downloads 800mb then patches 104gb. and if its takin that long, might need a better hard drive

[Weffi]

wierd it takes that long, for me the download takes normaly seconds, ok 1gig net what helps, but after that it pretty much fixes things, what can look like it is downloading everything, but it actualy is only fixing files

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

Originally posted by Ale Bertz:

What is going on? Is just with me, my son and husband that everyday ARK needs an update at least of 100GB? My son's PC doesn't support anymore. Everyday to him play I need to reinstall the whole game instead of update! And today this happened to me and my husband. Is anyone with the same problem??? How to solve?

Instead of all reinstall everyday, try to empty the SSD of your son, throw the maximum he doesn't need ( "big" things, like games he doesn't play actually i.e) because even it's a "small" download (800Mo), it needs time and more that they said on the page of the game in term of Go to be "confortable", for the REORGANIZATION of the game, on the SSD (hard drive), it seems it's more an issue with steam itself... try it, the more space you can and you will see.

EDIT: and i hope that the Hard Drive, on your son's computer, is not an ANCIENT "HDD" but a modern SSD! It's written, on the main page of the game "SSD REQUIRED".

[Silly Grey Owl]

I have the same issue. The 2TB ssd is 80% free, so it's not a space issue.

[SKIFREE]

The game has a single 108 GB file with all data inside.
Even a 1MB update needs to rewrite all the 108GB

You really need to be an idiot to develop a game like that (knowing that you're going to update it multiple times a month)

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

Originally posted by SKIFREE:

The game has a single 108 GB file with all data inside.

I just checked, for me, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended is 112 Go. ^^ (i didn't buy "Bob's tall tales)

[Witski]

Originally posted by SKIFREE:

The game has a single 108 GB file with all data inside.
Even a 1MB update needs to rewrite all the 108GB

You really need to be an idiot to develop a game like that (knowing that you're going to update it multiple times a month)

Almost every game works like that, the bigger the size and complexity of files, the longer it takes to rewrite what's changed.
You really need to be an idiot to trow insults on matters you don't know anything about.

[Rooster]

Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by SKIFREE:

The game has a single 108 GB file with all data inside.
Even a 1MB update needs to rewrite all the 108GB

You really need to be an idiot to develop a game like that (knowing that you're going to update it multiple times a month)

Almost every game works like that, the bigger the size and complexity of files, the longer it takes to rewrite what's changed.
You really need to be an idiot to trow insults on matters you don't know anything about.

Ummm no... WC is a special breed.... Ark has been and always will be the most irritating POS for updating. it'll download, write then update....only to do it all over again multiple times in an update session. However with most other games that I have come across, They do ALL the download....all the writing and then the updating by removing obsolete files and whatnot. Not bouncing around like ark does...

Whenever I think about what Ark is doing on the update , why its taking so flippin long, I think about an old HDD defrag screen on a windows 95 PC.

[SKIFREE]

Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by SKIFREE:

The game has a single 108 GB file with all data inside.
Even a 1MB update needs to rewrite all the 108GB

You really need to be an idiot to develop a game like that (knowing that you're going to update it multiple times a month)

Almost every game works like that, the bigger the size and complexity of files, the longer it takes to rewrite what's changed.
You really need to be an idiot to trow insults on matters you don't know anything about.

Nope, games have assets divided into different packages to avoid this problem during updates.
If you ever played a game (besides ark) in the last 20 years you might have notice that it doesn't take this long for an 800MB update.
Feel free to explore the folders of other games you might have installed on your PC if you don't believe me

[ToxyJohn]

Originally posted by SKIFREE:

The game has a single 108 GB file with all data inside.
Even a 1MB update needs to rewrite all the 108GB

You really need to be an idiot to develop a game like that (knowing that you're going to update it multiple times a month)

Think thats an Unreal Engine thing, i've noticed more, but not all, unreal engine games have a single large file containing all assets. Probably forgot to enable a checkbox in the build settings to package the assets into smaller files xD