UPDATING this game uses too much disk space

[shacram]

Never encountered a game that takes dozen or more GBs of disk space so it can land an update. Got tired of this crap and moved the game from SSD to HDD.

[Daywalker]

its not the game its how steam updates

[shacram]

Originally posted by Daywalker:

its not the game its how steam updates

did not had any problems with other games, just this one on updates and ssd disk usage

[Hiei]

It is in fact steam.

[PART-TIME-PLAYER]

taking days to update..what's up with that, any suggestions?

[Jackson]

Guys, the update happens every 3 weeks. We get multitudes of posts every time. Please stop - it's Steam. Search is your friend!

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Jack:

Guys, the update happens every 3 weeks. We get multitudes of posts every time. Please stop - it's Steam. Search is your friend!

Ever wonder why this doesn't get brought up all the time in the forums of other games on Steam though?

It's because it's actually WoWs. Yes, Steam is part of the problem. Steam isn't known for having particularly efficient patching, but the way WoWs handles things on Steam definitely doesn't help. Steam is known for forcing you to re-download entire large files for small changes. WoWs appears to just practically double in size whenever there's a major update. This doesn't seem to happen with other games, otherwise you'd probably see a bunch of threads like this on the games that are far larger than WoWs on Steam.

WoWs is pretty much the only game I've had to just uninstall from my laptop that I occasionally use, just because the updates are too large for it despite the game size not being nearly that large.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Originally posted by Jack:

Guys, the update happens every 3 weeks. We get multitudes of posts every time. Please stop - it's Steam. Search is your friend!

Ever wonder why this doesn't get brought up all the time in the forums of other games on Steam though?

It's because it's actually WoWs. Yes, Steam is part of the problem. Steam isn't known for having particularly efficient patching, but the way WoWs handles things on Steam definitely doesn't help. Steam is known for forcing you to re-download entire large files for small changes. WoWs appears to just practically double in size whenever there's a major update. This doesn't seem to happen with other games, otherwise you'd probably see a bunch of threads like this on the games that are far larger than WoWs on Steam.

WoWs is pretty much the only game I've had to just uninstall from my laptop that I occasionally use, just because the updates are too large for it despite the game size not being nearly that large.

It's because other games don't modify all their files every 3 weeks... *surprised look*

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by Lavian:

Ever wonder why this doesn't get brought up all the time in the forums of other games on Steam though?

It's because it's actually WoWs. Yes, Steam is part of the problem. Steam isn't known for having particularly efficient patching, but the way WoWs handles things on Steam definitely doesn't help. Steam is known for forcing you to re-download entire large files for small changes. WoWs appears to just practically double in size whenever there's a major update. This doesn't seem to happen with other games, otherwise you'd probably see a bunch of threads like this on the games that are far larger than WoWs on Steam.

WoWs is pretty much the only game I've had to just uninstall from my laptop that I occasionally use, just because the updates are too large for it despite the game size not being nearly that large.

It's because other games don't modify all their files every 3 weeks... *surprised look*

No, instead, other online game often actually have patches on a weekly basis.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Originally posted by Jack:

It's because other games don't modify all their files every 3 weeks... *surprised look*

No, instead, other online game often actually have patches on a weekly basis.

Ahh nothin' I have does that. Most days I have no updates at all.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by Lavian:

No, instead, other online game often actually have patches on a weekly basis.

Ahh nothin' I have does that. Most days I have no updates at all.

I pretty much have Steam doing at least its own patches to games at least once a day, even if the game wasn't updated, because I horde games on a 4 TB HDD.

That aside, Black Desert Online is a good example of a game that gets patched on a weekly basis. It has maintenance once a week, and they pretty much always push a patch of at least some bug fixes, small content additions, and/or changes at that time. BDO is a decent bit smaller than WoWs though.

The Elder Scrolls Online, on the other hand, is a pretty massive game. It appears to have patches every week or two. That said, as far as I know, it uses the relatively common solution (among online games) of having a launcher installed through Steam that handles most patching (BDO doesn't do this, for the record), much like games like Warframe and FFXIV.

Funny thing is that the only other game I distinctly remember people complaining about large updates to was Fractured Space, and Wargaming actually bought out the devs of that game. Though, that was the whole large download size issue of Steam having to redownload a bunch of stuff for small adjustments. Unreal Engine games in particular often get this complaint levied at them due to the packaging of the files and the way Steam updates. It's not the same as WoWs needing a bunch of local storage space for updates though.

[Jackson]

That could be. All I know is I have WoWS installed thru Steam and WGC and Steam takes WAAAY longer. Can't imagine what else it could be. All I can do is tell people if they don't wanna sit there watching huge updates... use WGC!

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Jack:

That could be. All I know is I have WoWS installed thru Steam and WGC and Steam takes WAAAY longer. Can't imagine what else it could be. All I can do is tell people if they don't wanna sit there watching huge updates... use WGC!

Yeah, I'm actually not sure why they don't actually just use a launcher on Steam, like the retired standalone launcher they had.

DMM has a launcher for WoWs (I checked to see if I could try to connect it to NA to see if I could see the Hololive collab content a month ago, since that was a DMM recruitment event at the time), so they clearly have one still sitting around that's used on other platforms.

[Daywalker]

steam updates by making a copy of the entire game folder then downloading files and copying them in. then delete the backup. wows is nothing ark with all dc is 150gb that really sucks when there are updates.

[shacram]

Originally posted by Daywalker:

steam updates by making a copy of the entire game folder then downloading files and copying them in. then delete the backup. wows is nothing ark with all dc is 150gb that really sucks when there are updates.

That's stupid. Why not just download the new files, apply them and then do a verification of the files ?

[Jackson]

Originally posted by shacram:

Originally posted by Daywalker:

steam updates by making a copy of the entire game folder then downloading files and copying them in. then delete the backup. wows is nothing ark with all dc is 150gb that really sucks when there are updates.

That's stupid. Why not just download the new files, apply them and then do a verification of the files ?

Ask Steam. We'd all really like to know. WG has talked to them about it from what I was told.