Patching taking absolutely forever

[Egocrata]

For some bizarre reason, every single patch so far has taken an hour or more to install - completely taking over my PC in the process. It is not the download speeds; Steam servers are fine. The patching process, however, is dreadful.

Am I the only one with this problem?

[Zeth]

You essentially have to re-download the entire game when they patch.
Terrible, terrible design decision.

[paulblopez88]

its because there more then just venom added to game so its a very big update

[Gadzooks]

Originally posted by Zeth:

You essentially have to re-download the entire game when they patch.
Terrible, terrible design decision.

This.

What I do when I see a patch for the game.

Uninstall the game.

Then do a fresh install.

Its faster because it doesnt have to download, unpack the download, then unpack the game files, then patch the game files, and then repack the patched game files.

[Woolfy Geekool]

Same problem here. I have this with some recent other games, and guess what, they all have denuvo...
Gadzooks already described what is going on inside with "depacking" then "repacking" everything (we can say "crypting" instead of packing).
The best way is to delete and redownload the entire the game. It really is faster.

[Maltavius]

Originally posted by paulblopez88:

its because there more then just venom added to game so its a very big update

But I didn't buy that DLC so why should I download it?

[Captain Worthy]

Originally posted by Zeth:

You essentially have to re-download the entire game when they patch.
Terrible, terrible design decision.

It's not a design decision, this is an issue that affects only some players, not all. My patches install very quickly after downloading.

However, I have encountered this issue in the past with some other games on Steam when I've been installing them on a slower SSD which has been used a lot more and was close to running out of free space.

[udtojan95]

Originally posted by Egocrata:

For some bizarre reason, every single patch so far has taken an hour or more to install - completely taking over my PC in the process. It is not the download speeds; Steam servers are fine. The patching process, however, is dreadful.

Am I the only one with this problem?

I had same problem.
I had to deinstall the whole game and re-download.

[Zeth]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Originally posted by Zeth:

You essentially have to re-download the entire game when they patch.
Terrible, terrible design decision.

t's not a design decision, this is an issue that affects only some players, not all. My patches install very quickly after downloading.

However, I have encountered this issue in the past with some other games on Steam when I've been installing them on a slower SSD which has been used a lot more and was close to running out of free space.

It IS a design decision.

Look at the files for this game. It basically consists of two big PAK files, one is about 20 GB and the other 40 GB. Now look at some other games you have, where you know the patches are always fast and where people don't complain about patching, and see how they have split the files. You'll see that they have many smaller files instead.

It's possible that the patching mechanic can unpack these PAK files if you have enough disk space and then only patch those before they pack them again for faster patching.

But that is STILL a terrible design decision.

For me I'm pretty sure the patching actually deleted the game deleted the PAK files on my computer when I patched and then re-downloaded them. I checked my disk space on my game storage SSD a bit into the patching process and had over 60 GB free and now I have under 20 GB...

[Britannic]

I uninstall game then reinstalled. It was quicker.

[Burzz]

This is still going on, bumping for visibility. Absolutely ridiculous for a game in 2023 to take upwards of an hour to install a patch.