New Patch?!

[Enclosure]

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[♋Phenex]

Most people are going to have a 24MB download and then need to repackage 80GB. If you need to redownload, Steam likely thinks it can't patch your game and needs to get other files.

[darklord]

Kaldaien a écrit :

Lynfinity a écrit :

The update itself is 28.5 mb, the reason you're seeing that is because the whole game gets repackaged while installing said update.

So why did it download 80 GiB if the update was 28.5 MiB?

I am sad to tell you this but it downloaded 80GiB because you own the xbox version or windows version that unlike steam it god forbid doesn't just do the whole fetching thing and now i am waiting for it to finish downloading 80 GiB again like you q.q.

[darklord]

So to clear things up, if you own the steam version you will only download basically 20-ish megabytes or so and verify the rest or something like that this requires you to have both a fast cpu and drive i think, if on the other hand you had a windows or xbox version of the game, you will enjoy the mandatory redownloading of the game.

Me being in a country with slow internet i will be enjoying my 8 hours of downloading while my 9700x and 990 pro chill on a bench and watch some romcom together q.q....

[Skyte100]

Why's it gotta patch the full 80gb for every update?

[darklord]

Skyte100 a écrit :

Why's it gotta patch the full 80gb for every update?

Basically they changed a small part of a bigger whole and that part is connected to it so instead of it being the small file that it should've been, it's gonna update the bigger whole yippee...

[ichigozanget]

Is a big patch .... no, is a tiny patch... maybe, its a shadow patch... perhaps, so.... its a Heysmay kinda patch .... nobody lives for know that.

[Eldredpe]

Amanozako a écrit :

Zelkova a écrit :

Im quite literally at the end of the game. Beat the last boss at like 4am and saved. I just need to do the final wrap up and now i have to uninstall like 4 games just to be allowed to open this game to play it for like 15 min. Im 100% sure that whatever this update is does not effect me watching the final two cut-scenes.

If you have that little disk space free, you've got much bigger problems than missing out on the last bit of the game.

The issue is that though the patch is 25mb it requires the full install size of the game FREE on your drive to patch it, much like the PS3 used to when installing games back in the day. So they are not saying they only had 25mb free, but rather needed to free space to have the necessary extra 80gb free to install the patch.

[Lynfinity]

Kaldaien a écrit :

Lynfinity a écrit :

The update itself is 28.5 mb, the reason you're seeing that is because the whole game gets repackaged while installing said update.

So why did it download 80 GiB if the update was 28.5 MiB?

"...because the whole game gets repackaged while installing said update."

[HeinzHarald]

neatchee a écrit :

For those who are still skeptical or confused:

This is a DELTA PATCH. It downloads ~28mb of data that tells the installer how to change the existing files from one version to the next (rather than just downloading the already-changed files)

This patch MODIFIES ARCHIVE CONTENTS. In order to successfully patch the content that is archived on disk, they must be unpacked, modified, and repacked.

This patch REQUIRES EXTRA DISK SPACE beyond the install size, for the operation described above. It doesn't delete the old archive until the new contents are ready.

The speed of this patch applying MOSTLY DEPENDS ON YOUR CPU AND DISK I/O PERFORMANCE. It will be bottle-necked by whichever of the two is slower.

This patch WILL REDOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE GAME ONLY IF YOU HAVE MODIFIED THE GAME DIRECTORY IN SOME WAY. The patch performs a hash-check before applying the diff, to make sure the patch can be applied properly. If the hash check fails, it will trigger a "repair".

This patch CAN APPEAR IN DIFFERENT UI, depending on how you're launching the game (Windows Desktop, Big Picture, SteamDeck, etc). NOT ALL UI SHOWS ALL INFORMATION. Some lump "download" and "install" progress into a single "download progress" value. Others split them out.

SEE THIS IMAGE FOR WHAT A NORMAL PATCH LOOKS LIKE: https://imgur.com/a/q4N3UZd
Notice how the green line for Disk Usage is moving but the download is not. Note also the separate values for "download" (28.8mb) and "disk" (79.9gb)

Hope this clears up any confusion!

Which is exactly how patching should be done! It minimizes download size and for most people the process will be a lot quicker than an old school patch would've been. If people only knew how much unchanged data they've downloaded in patches over the years...

The one thing Atlus could've done better is to use a few large game files rather than one gigantic one. This could've meant much less update space needed during patching, depending on what the respective files contain and what the patch alters.

[HeinzHarald]

Eldredpe a écrit :

Amanozako a écrit :

If you have that little disk space free, you've got much bigger problems than missing out on the last bit of the game.

The issue is that though the patch is 25mb it requires the full install size of the game FREE on your drive to patch it, much like the PS3 used to when installing games back in the day. So they are not saying they only had 25mb free, but rather needed to free space to have the necessary extra 80gb free to install the patch.

With the PS3 everything was compressed in one file for transfer and then uncompressed once downloaded, very old school. That's not what's happening here (which is a patch modifying an existing file rather than delivering a new version of that file), but I suppose the PS3 is indeed a good reference point for the situation of needing twice the disc space temporarily. Man that was annoying, with the limited drive space we had.

[ez game ez life]

patching took 3 minutes for me, you guys complaining just have crappy hardware

[mylameonlinename]

yup 2-3 min patch that was 30mb and just idiots complaining making a mountain out of a molehill. Much easier to blame stuff on anything but yourself.

[逍遥败家仔]

After the patch，I can finally setting full screen on my 2560X1440 laptop

[ShockedHearts]

mylameonlinename a écrit :

yup 2-3 min patch that was 30mb and just idiots complaining making a mountain out of a molehill. Much easier to blame stuff on anything but yourself.

took me like 3 minutes as well 28mb patch to be specific.

[yoship]

So this is how the 28 MB update went on my PC that had about 91 GB of free space- something that I deliberately ensured for Metaphor patching,

But Steam decided it was not going to use my main Gen-4 SSD this time, instead it copied over the whole game to my slower 5400 rpm HDD also with 90 GB free space, patched it there, then copied over all the game files back to my primary SSD Steam location. The whole process took about 90 minutes, basically bottlenecked at the HDD during the entire duration.