Why do I need enough space for the entire game when the game updates?

[TacticalHotDog]

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love when this game updates. BUT, for some reason, every update that rolls out demands like 27 GB of space (The whole game) for just a 3 GB update.

Like, I have 16 free GB on this SSD, but I hate that I have to clean out 10 GB of space for every update.

Anyway, does anyone know a fix for this download issue? It might be a Steam thing, but I figured I'd ask here first.

Thanks

[SSIXS]

It's not a Steam thing mate, it's the way the developers are distributing the game and updates in .pak files.

Nothing can really be done about it, unless the developers stop doing it that way.

[Dr. Rockso M.D.]

Yeah, you need about 25-26GB free for this last patch.

SSD here too and running low on space, so just moved some steam games over to another drive and moved back when patch finishes doing its thing.

[XeNdErZ]

They haven't fix the pak files that were suppose to limit the update size. Bear with it for a while.

[Toxic Waste]

still not fixed btw, asking for over 50 gb free disk space for 170mb update...this is ridiculous. I had to reinstall the game to get the 170mb update.

[SlashSasha]

Originally posted by Toxic Waste:

still not fixed btw, asking for over 50 gb free disk space for 170mb update...this is ridiculous. I had to reinstall the game to get the 170mb update.:47_thumb_down:

ahhh thats why it stopped downloading and my dam laptop is lagging.

[Lynch]

Yeah, right now it's installing a 5.8 mb patch.
The installation started SIX minutes ago! With an SSD.

[Poot]

Yeah installing the same patch now, 5.8 mb ... still 35 mins to go .... on an SSD as well.

[Froschi]

The 5.8 MB patch took 36 minutes to finish on an SSD.
Meanwhile a 1.2 GB patch of Rocket League took 2 minutes, download included.

I honestly don't know what these devs were thinking when they decided to use PAK files of that size.

[Maki Nishikino]

.pak files are an Unreal Engine thing...

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Basics/Projects/Packaging/index.html

[Froschi]

Did you miss the "of that size" part?

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Melo:

Did you miss the "of that size" part?

No, not sure if UE3 suffers from this issue. There is an article on Reddit about why UE4 games can take such a long time to update even when the patch size is quite small.

[Froschi]

Not sure what you're trying to say.
The problem is not the PAK file format itself, it's the fact that they decided to pack many files into huge PAK files, rather than pack less files into smaller PAKs.
That's literally the only reason why even the smallest updates take ages. And btw, Rocket League is using UE as well and doesn't suffer from that issue.

[SlashSasha]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Originally posted by Melo:

Not sure what you're trying to say.
The problem is not the PAK file format itself, it's the fact that they decided to pack many files into huge PAK files, rather than PAK less files into smaller PAKs.
That's literally the only reason why even the smallest updates take ages. And btw, Rocket League is using UE as well and doesn't suffer from that issue.

I'll make note next patch to see the actually time, the game is on my HDD.

EDIT: Are you serious, the last reply before this was necroed was Jul 14, 2017 @ 1:43am

lol

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Lectitio Divintatus:

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

I'll make note next patch to see the actually time, the game is on my HDD.

EDIT: Are you serious, the last reply before this was necroed was Jul 14, 2017 @ 1:43am

lol

Nevermind, I don't think necroing is allowed so I just deleted my post and will let mods handle it.

[MrSubPar]

I've been wondering why steam says I'm downloading such big updates all the time for this game. It also was never actually downloading, just using disk memory. Is that because it's unpacking the PAK files? I don't know much about them but it would at least explain what's happening for me.