extremely slow patching process?

[Khser]

so game is installed on a pci-e 4 ssd that is 2800MB write and 3300MB read speed but it only patches about 3-4MB/s

anyone else has the same issue?

[Darksidewalker]

No, took me some seconds.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Khser:

so game is installed on a pci-e 4 ssd that is 2800MB write and 3300MB read speed but it only patches about 3-4MB/s

anyone else has the same issue?

get a faster SSD/HDD. my HDD was done within 3 minutes.

[muldyr]

same problem

[Khser]

Originally posted by Darksidewalker:

No, took me some seconds.

i dont know why man
https://i.imgur.com/EVeVsKW.png
https://i.imgur.com/2TyBvJ3.png

Originally posted by muldyr:

same problem

you mean same as mine?

[Dart]

It won't even download for me, it finishes patching and then just says downloading and the timer goes up indefinitely

[zero.calvin]

i got a m.2 ssd and if i remember correctly, it took about 10 minutes to patch... not really sure why it took s long to patch 300MB files.... but again, it's sorting out 30GB worth of files...

i originally thought steam was frozen while patching, good thing i take a closer look.

[weiss]

Originally posted by zero.calvin:

i got a m.2 ssd and if i remember correctly, it took about 10 minutes to patch... not really sure why it took s long to patch 300MB files.... but again, it's sorting out 30GB worth of files...

because it rewrites one of the mainfiles, thats why. its easier to rewrite it and writing the 347mb part into it then downloading the whole thing again.
i mean, if you want can you download the 34gb instead, works too.

[⅓]

I checked my performance tab in task manager and found it was downloading and patching entirely on one of my big storage HDDs, instead of the very fast SSD I have the game installed on. Even with 300 GB free.
So I removed the drive in question from my steam libraries temporarily in the settings- and got "drive error"

So now I'm just downloading the game for the 3rd time, still faster than ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ patching.

Why we can't prioritize a drive for steam to cache files on after almost 20 years is a mystery to me.

[Mako Ruu]

That's just every unreal engine game. Nothing to worry about.

[weiss]

Originally posted by ⅓:

I checked my performance tab in task manager and found it was downloading and patching entirely on one of my big storage HDDs, instead of the very fast SSD I have the game installed on. Even with 300 GB free.
So I removed the drive in question from my steam libraries temporarily in the settings- and got "drive error"

So now I'm just downloading the game for the 3rd time, still faster than ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ patching.

Why we can't prioritize a drive for steam to cache files on after almost 20 years is a mystery to me.

and then it downloads the patches and ya sit anyways there rewriting the 34gb file =D.

[Tofu]

Took a few seconds

[BurningTofu]

It's slow if you have multiple drives in your system especially with traditional HDD even you installed the game on SSD.

[weiss]

Originally posted by BurningTofu:

It's slow if you have multiple drives in your system especially with traditional HDD even you installed the game on SSD.

i play the game on a HDD (granted, its one of the fastest you can get) and according to someone here was my HDD faster then their SSD xD.
they took 10 min while i was just sitting about 3 minutes there.

[Khser]

Originally posted by ⅓:

I checked my performance tab in task manager and found it was downloading and patching entirely on one of my big storage HDDs, instead of the very fast SSD I have the game installed on. Even with 300 GB free.
So I removed the drive in question from my steam libraries temporarily in the settings- and got "drive error"

So now I'm just downloading the game for the 3rd time, still faster than ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ patching.

Why we can't prioritize a drive for steam to cache files on after almost 20 years is a mystery to me.

i went to double check and you were kinda right.

game is downloaded to wherever your steam is set to/default library. and since i was copying my previous hdd, it was busy 100%.

moved steam back to my ssd and voila!

https://i.imgur.com/MVmrCoo.png

[El_Batman]

Mine is doing the same thing. I have only 2 M2 Gen 3 SSDs with one being dedicated to my steam games. The patching takes forever. I have a brand new powerful machine with 32 GB of DDR5 only super fast M2 drives and a powerful CPU. There is something messed up with the way they do their downloads.