Updates need to be scheduled instead of continuous weekly updates

[Major Li Ability]

While I appreciate that the developers need to update their games on occasions its becoming a weekly/Bi weekly task to update the games for 4-5 hours a day with MASSIVE update sizes many I am sure are just reinstall. If these are patches because of Pirating ONCE a week is enough its a constant battle to keep my system up to data..
Steam should enforce a patch and not a Reinstall.
Steam should limit the number of times a week a developer can patch their software.
Don't allow companies to hide behind critical updates when in reality they are minor bugs.

[Brian9824]

What game is this? What your describing isn't typical of most games outside of EA games, just launched games, etc.

Also there is no reinstall for an update, some games the way they are built though depending on the change might have you updating very large files. Nothing Valve can do about that, nor should they ever limit patching. No one wants to be stuck with a broken game waiting a week for a fix because the developer released a patch that had an issue and can't fix it until next week

[Major Li Ability]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

What game is this? What your describing isn't typical of most games outside of EA games, just launched games, etc.

Also there is no reinstall for an update, some games the way they are built though depending on the change might have you updating very large files. Nothing Valve can do about that, nor should they ever limit patching. No one wants to be stuck with a broken game waiting a week for a fix because the developer released a patch that had an issue and can't fix it until next week

Hi Brian,
Last checked for updates yesterday and completed the list today (1 to note is Half-life Alyx) Installed Monday, Updated Tuesday and 50.3GB patch today same as install size)
Onward
Rocket League
Bigscreen
Kayak VR Mirage
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
Skyrim VR
Half-Life Alyx
Pavlov VR
Contractors VR
Counter Strike

Thanks
PS Patching for minor bugs is not a broken game, every game has bugs they all dont have to be patched one by one they can be done in a consolidated patch.

[wuddih]

Alyx has not received any update since may 6th.
condition zero not in 2 years.

do you use an external drive?

[Thermal Lance]

Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

What game is this? What your describing isn't typical of most games outside of EA games, just launched games, etc.

Also there is no reinstall for an update, some games the way they are built though depending on the change might have you updating very large files. Nothing Valve can do about that, nor should they ever limit patching. No one wants to be stuck with a broken game waiting a week for a fix because the developer released a patch that had an issue and can't fix it until next week

Hi Brian,
Last checked for updates yesterday and completed the list today (1 to note is Half-life Alyx) Installed Monday, Updated Tuesday and 50.3GB patch today same as install size)
Onward
Rocket League
Bigscreen
Kayak VR Mirage
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
Skyrim VR
Half-Life Alyx
Pavlov VR
Contractors VR
Counter Strike

Thanks
PS Patching for minor bugs is not a broken game, every game has bugs they all dont have to be patched one by one they can be done in a consolidated patch.

The whole patching thing is a non issue for most people.

Why would dev hold fixes to accommodate a couple individuals?

[Major Li Ability]

wuddih の投稿を引用：

Alyx has not received any update since may 6th.
condition zero not in 2 years.

do you use an external drive?

Hi Wuddih,
No external drive used- internal drive, Wish I could show you a snapshot of my Download list but they are all in there.

[Major Li Ability]

Thermal Lance の投稿を引用：

Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

Hi Brian,
Last checked for updates yesterday and completed the list today (1 to note is Half-life Alyx) Installed Monday, Updated Tuesday and 50.3GB patch today same as install size)
Onward
Rocket League
Bigscreen
Kayak VR Mirage
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
Skyrim VR
Half-Life Alyx
Pavlov VR
Contractors VR
Counter Strike

Thanks
PS Patching for minor bugs is not a broken game, every game has bugs they all dont have to be patched one by one they can be done in a consolidated patch.

The whole patching thing is a non issue for most people.

Why would dev hold fixes to accommodate a couple individuals?

Hi Lance,
Agreed if it was a common issue I am sure more people would have mentioned it but in my case sitting through around 80GB of downloads a week to update the Steam games is becoming intolerable.

[Thermal Lance]

Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

Thermal Lance の投稿を引用：

The whole patching thing is a non issue for most people.

Why would dev hold fixes to accommodate a couple individuals?

Hi Lance,
Agreed if it was a common issue I am sure more people would have mentioned it but in my case sitting through around 80GB of downloads a week to update the Steam games is becoming intolerable.

80GB per week is kind of hard to believe thought.

[Major Li Ability]

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Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

Hi Lance,
Agreed if it was a common issue I am sure more people would have mentioned it but in my case sitting through around 80GB of downloads a week to update the Steam games is becoming intolerable.

80GB per week is kind of hard to believe thought.

Lance, No joke just finished now another 54GB for Alyx, 12GB for Contractors and 6GB for Pavlov.Thats just today bearing in mind I have had around 15 updates all week so far and even half life 2 has just updated all be it a few MB.
I guess I am not reading it wrong the Numbers on the Left separted by / are the amount downloaded and the second number on the left is how much is to be downloaded followed by the disk updates amount done and completed.
Many of the games have 2 or 3 a week of at least 3-4 GB.
Guess its just my PC so I will turn off the updates its just to much to have to hang around 4-5 hours every week for the updates to complete.

[aiusepsi]

The last update for Alyx was on the 6th of May, so unless you've got a lot of Workshop content installed, something very very weird is going on.

There's a log file, Steam/logs/content_log.txt, which might shed some light.

[Brian9824]

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Thermal Lance の投稿を引用：

80GB per week is kind of hard to believe thought.

Lance, No joke just finished now another 54GB for Alyx, 12GB for Contractors and 6GB for Pavlov.Thats just today bearing in mind I have had around 15 updates all week so far and even half life 2 has just updated all be it a few MB.
I guess I am not reading it wrong the Numbers on the Left separted by / are the amount downloaded and the second number on the left is how much is to be downloaded followed by the disk updates amount done and completed.
Many of the games have 2 or 3 a week of at least 3-4 GB.
Guess its just my PC so I will turn off the updates its just to much to have to hang around 4-5 hours every week for the updates to complete.

Can you post a screenshot of your download screen too.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

While I appreciate that the developers need to update their games on occasions its becoming a weekly/Bi weekly task to update the games for 4-5 hours a day with MASSIVE update sizes many I am sure are just reinstall. If these are patches because of Pirating ONCE a week is enough its a constant battle to keep my system up to data..
Steam should enforce a patch and not a Reinstall.
Steam should limit the number of times a week a developer can patch their software.
Don't allow companies to hide behind critical updates when in reality they are minor bugs.

You can right click on any game and go in its properties, then there set the game to be downloaded only when you launch it.

While you absolutely need to update games on Steam to play them (although some allow you to opt in previous versions which allow you to keep playing in a single version all the time without the need to update) it at least give you the power to download updates that you actually want whenever you want them. If there is a game you never play with anymore and you decide to play it then it won't matter if you haven't downloaded the 20 previous patches; it will all download then when you launch the game again.

The only problem of this solution is that you have to do for every single game in your list. And this setting is reset if you uninstall then reinstall a game.

Edit: unrelated but in the same area, I also strongly suggest that you tick the "never download while playing this game" for any MP game you have so you don't suddenly lag out of nowhere because Steam decide to download something while you play online.

[Major Li Ability]

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Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

Lance, No joke just finished now another 54GB for Alyx, 12GB for Contractors and 6GB for Pavlov.Thats just today bearing in mind I have had around 15 updates all week so far and even half life 2 has just updated all be it a few MB.
I guess I am not reading it wrong the Numbers on the Left separted by / are the amount downloaded and the second number on the left is how much is to be downloaded followed by the disk updates amount done and completed.
Many of the games have 2 or 3 a week of at least 3-4 GB.
Guess its just my PC so I will turn off the updates its just to much to have to hang around 4-5 hours every week for the updates to complete.

Can you post a screenshot of your download screen too.

Lance,
Would love to but you cant add images to the post.
I can confirm in my Games directory that the following folders have been modified. (This Week)
Half-life 22/07/2022
rocketleague 22/07/2022
Half-Life Alyx 22/07/2022
Onward 22/07/2022
Bigscreen 22/07/2022
Kayak VR 22/07/2022
SkyrimVR 22/07/2022
ContractorsVR 22/07/2022
Pavlov 22/07/2022
ForzaHorizon5 20/07/2022
Natural Locomotion 19/07/2022
Blade & Sorcery 18/07/2022

[Brian9824]

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brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Can you post a screenshot of your download screen too.

Lance,
Would love to but you cant add images to the post.
I can confirm in my Games directory that the following folders have been modified. (This Week)
Half-life 22/07/2022
rocketleague 22/07/2022
Half-Life Alyx 22/07/2022
Onward 22/07/2022
Bigscreen 22/07/2022
Kayak VR 22/07/2022
SkyrimVR 22/07/2022
ContractorsVR 22/07/2022
Pavlov 22/07/2022
ForzaHorizon5 20/07/2022
Natural Locomotion 19/07/2022
Blade & Sorcery 18/07/2022

You upload it to imgur and paste link

[Major Li Ability]

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Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

Lance,
Would love to but you cant add images to the post.
I can confirm in my Games directory that the following folders have been modified. (This Week)
Half-life 22/07/2022
rocketleague 22/07/2022
Half-Life Alyx 22/07/2022
Onward 22/07/2022
Bigscreen 22/07/2022
Kayak VR 22/07/2022
SkyrimVR 22/07/2022
ContractorsVR 22/07/2022
Pavlov 22/07/2022
ForzaHorizon5 20/07/2022
Natural Locomotion 19/07/2022
Blade & Sorcery 18/07/2022

You upload it to imgur and paste link

Thanks I will do that for the next round of updates the completed ones are not very useful as they do not contain the size of the updates and only list as completed. Plus I have now cleared the updates list.

[Major Li Ability]

brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Major Li Ability の投稿を引用：

Lance, No joke just finished now another 54GB for Alyx, 12GB for Contractors and 6GB for Pavlov.Thats just today bearing in mind I have had around 15 updates all week so far and even half life 2 has just updated all be it a few MB.
I guess I am not reading it wrong the Numbers on the Left separted by / are the amount downloaded and the second number on the left is how much is to be downloaded followed by the disk updates amount done and completed.
Many of the games have 2 or 3 a week of at least 3-4 GB.
Guess its just my PC so I will turn off the updates its just to much to have to hang around 4-5 hours every week for the updates to complete.

Can you post a screenshot of your download screen too.

Hi Brian,
Its only Monday and still a long way till the end of the week but here is what looks like to me a 667.8MB download for Half-Life: Alyx.
Not sure where all the updates come from.
https://imgur.com/a/sFaxiSw