Is 32GB game updates ok?

[John Weekend]

After the release of version 7.0.0, each subsequent update, such as 7.0.1 and above, is about 32GB in size and takes several hours to download. Something went wrong? Why have the updates become so huge? Do you have the same? How to fix this?

Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15OfqoiLRv7nDXN2UtVOiqX7kKYERZzic/view?usp=sharing

[Silent Sword]

you are NOT downloading 32 gb, its the game files being updated❕
or simply saying game files taking new effects❕

[Brandon]

Originally posted by John Weekend:

After the release of version 7.0.0, each subsequent update, such as 7.0.1 and above, is about 32GB in size and takes several hours to download. Something went wrong? Why have the updates become so huge? Do you have the same? How to fix this?

Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15OfqoiLRv7nDXN2UtVOiqX7kKYERZzic/view?usp=sharing

You don't donwload 32GB's of game data, you're essentially adding ontop of thek then steam does a automatic verification of game files (which is cpu limited) as a means to make sure the update doesn't break anything or overwrite the wrong files, etc.

[John Weekend]

Maybe. But it shouldn't take 5-6 hours every new update, right? When it used to take 5 minutes previously. Now this is become annoying process.........

[John Weekend]

5-6 hours Carl

[Silent Sword]

didnt take that long for me❕ maybe your hardware is slow OR slow connection which will cuz slow verification of game files cuz its online ofc. anyways dont worry you wont have to charge 32 gb of interent traffic thats for sure 🙃

[John Weekend]

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[John Weekend]

Originally posted by Silent Sword:

didnt take that long for me❕ maybe your hardware is slow OR slow connection which will cuz slow verification of game files cuz its online ofc. anyways dont worry you wont have to charge 32 gb of interent traffic thats for sure 🙃

Well, no, I tell you before it took about five minutes at the same speed as now. Previously, the update size was a couple of hundred megabytes. Now every new update essentially downloads the entire game again.

[John Weekend]

Something clearly went wrong after version 7.0.0

[LIBERTY PRIME]

i havent had this issue with dbd yet, but with other games. might be something wrong with steam, because back then everybody told me its my "slow pc/connection" too, which obviously was bs. eventually it fixed itself for me

[Sairek Ceareste]

Originally posted by John Weekend:

Something clearly went wrong after version 7.0.0

It's a 'you' problem, people aren't downloading 32 gig updates. You are.

You may also not be downloading the updates, but unpacking them. Or something was wrong with your files and Steam redownloaded the entire game because something was broken; there can be a lot of reasons why.


My suggestion is to make sure your download cache is clear. You can do this from "Steam > Settings > Downloads", and then hit the "Clear Download Cache" button.

The download cache being bloated is usually the main reason why people get ridiculous download sizes, or have games install poorly. A clear download cache and reverifying the game files ensures that you have a clean and fresh copy of the game.

[John Weekend]

Thank you for your answers guys! I appreciate it!

Here is what official support answered to me by email: "Stephanie (Dead by Daylight)
Jul 13, 2023, 13:36 EDT

Hello there!

Thank you for bringing this situation to our attention. As the language you used in your message is not currently supported, we are using translation software to communicate with you in order to provide assistance in English. You're welcome to continue responding in your preferred language.

It's really unfortunate you've gone through an unpleasant experience, we apologize for the inconvenience that this might have caused you, on many cases on the update there are a few MB or GB the amount that it's downloaded from the internet, but if you see on the downloading chart there's a little disk symbol with a big amount of GB, all those Gigabytes are not downloading from the internet, this amount of information is the visual representation of the process of patching the game data, it's just sending the update information to the respective place on the game. So in conclusion, it's not reinstalling the whole game it's just applying the new patch information to the game data!

However in big patches it is normal to have a big load of data downloaded, if it happens every time, try reinstalling the game.

In case you have any other doubt or have to report anything, please feel free to contact us at any time! We appreciate the time you took to submit your report!

See you in the fog...
Stephanie"

[John Weekend]

I'll try

Originally posted by Sairek Ceareste:

Originally posted by John Weekend:

Something clearly went wrong after version 7.0.0

It's a 'you' problem, people aren't downloading 32 gig updates. You are.

You may also not be downloading the updates, but unpacking them. Or something was wrong with your files and Steam redownloaded the entire game because something was broken; there can be a lot of reasons why.


My suggestion is to make sure your download cache is clear. You can do this from "Steam > Settings > Downloads", and then hit the "Clear Download Cache" button.

The download cache being bloated is usually the main reason why people get ridiculous download sizes, or have games install poorly. A clear download cache and reverifying the game files ensures that you have a clean and fresh copy of the game.

I’ll try to do so and will back with feedback

[INFERNAL NEON]

Oh i had this issue as well for a long time, the way i fixed it was i moved the folder via steam from one drive to another. After i moved it back to my M2 ssd it started to do updates way faster. Hope this helps

[John Weekend]

Originally posted by INFERNAL NEON:

Oh i had this issue as well for a long time, the way i fixed it was i moved the folder via steam from one drive to another. After i moved it back to my M2 ssd it started to do updates way faster. Hope this helps

Oh thanks for this tip! Yes I play from external SSD drive

[TheWookr]

you're not atcually downloading 32 gb it is updating those files unfortunately it does take a long time but you are not downloading anything extra