Verification process - request to remove or FIX it!

[Orghal]

Hello,

I think the entire Steam community would agree with me to allow users to FINALLY turn off the pointless product verification in the Steam app. This takes much more time than the entire installation including the upgrades! In addition, the chance of the Steam app crashing is huge - I don't know why or for what reason this was done BUT THIS OPTION IS INSANE and leads us to stop using Steam!

Please remove this immediately because it's eating up my hdd and preventing me from running many reliable applications purchased on Steam (Verification Baldur's Gate 3 took 1+ hour!!! - not acceptable, my machine is very very fast!). This option is programmed by the developer very badly and leads to hangs, delays and many other negatives!!!

If you do not want to remove this please add an option in the settings where the user can decide at any time to verify or without! This is so trivial to add in the app that more than half an hour even an inexperienced programmer will spend on it!

I bought already 22 products and this process make me sick!

Regards and thank you in advance and understanding.
Orghal

[Piston Smashed™]

We are talking about Verify Integrity of Game Files right? Because if we are then I've just verified Baldur's Gate 3, a 137.22GB install in 5 minutes (minus a few seconds) on a Corsair MP510 1.92TB Gen 3 NVMe drive.

Baldur's Gate 3 requires an SSD, so if you're using a HDD then you need it moving to an SSD.

[Nx Machina]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

I assume OP was downloading game then verify, but if it was downloading patch, then I assume OP HDD has problems, or clearly doing something to cause the problem, or even failing HDD.

Possibly but they did not clarify. Verifying the entire game takes about 5 to 6 mins on my PC with BG3 being on an SSD.

[Orghal]

Hi all
I back to the problem
This is not an issue with speed of HDD, wires or something. This is very simple problem related to unnecessary functionality in Steam client! Simple! - V E R I F I C A T I O N!

This part should simply not take place in the world. Simple and logical. It is worth adding an option for the stubborn where you enable or disable any verification funded by Steam. I can easily say that 99.9999% of users of Steam will set it to disabled. It is very simple and logical.

As for the speed of the drive is really solid Seagate from the latest series 8TB and no other application or playback even 4k is not a problem here! What's more, you can do other things during such 4K viewing since this is Mac OS X. The problem is the Steam client, which is failed and many ways and does not provide options for users. For example update for Baldur's Gate took arount 72MB but verification going through whole 150+ GB.

I am sure that the developer does not read all this here after from my direct correspondence and communication with them it seems that they ignore us and do not listen to feedback and sometimes just lie.

Regards

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Publicado originalmente por macdavido:

Hi all
I back to the problem
This is not an issue with speed of HDD, wires or something. This is very simple problem related to unnecessary functionality in Steam client! Simple! - V E R I F I C A T I O N!

This part should simply not take place in the world. Simple and logical. It is worth adding an option for the stubborn where you enable or disable any verification funded by Steam. I can easily say that 99.9999% of users of Steam will set it to disabled. It is very simple and logical.

As for the speed of the drive is really solid Seagate from the latest series 8TB and no other application or playback even 4k is not a problem here! What's more, you can do other things during such 4K viewing since this is Mac OS X. The problem is the Steam client, which is failed and many ways and does not provide options for users. For example update for Baldur's Gate took arount 72MB but verification going through whole 150+ GB.

I am sure that the developer does not read all this here after from my direct correspondence and communication with them it seems that they ignore us and do not listen to feedback and sometimes just lie.

Regards

When last time you did a benchmark on your HDD?

Are you using anything in background like 3rd party anti virus, or tools that hooks into other apps, and such?

[Wolfpig]

Publicado originalmente por macdavido:

Hi all
I back to the problem
This is not an issue with speed of HDD, wires or something.

It is not an issue with the speed, but low speed HDDs will process data....slow.
But you do know that already.
BTW.
A HDD may have a max write speed of 160MB/S, so when a game with 100GB (or 100000MB) gets verified the theoretical time it would need would be around 10.5 Minutes.

And as HDDs most likely never get that high write speeds it will take longer.
if your CPU is is too slow to handle the workload the whole process uses then it will take longer too.
If the Gamefiles are placed in (compressed) archives it will add to the time it needs too, as the whole package needs to be unpacked and then repacked.

The only reason people would use a hdd would be for storage space (or no money for such stuff), as every sata ssd would be 3-5 times faster then a hdd.

[Nx Machina]

Publicado originalmente por macdavido:

Hi all
I back to the problem
This is not an issue with speed of HDD, wires or something. This is very simple problem related to unnecessary functionality in Steam client! Simple! - V E R I F I C A T I O N!

Except:

Publicado originalmente por Piston Smashed™:

We are talking about Verify Integrity of Game Files right? Because if we are then I've just verified Baldur's Gate 3, a 137.22GB install in 5 minutes (minus a few seconds) on a Corsair MP510 1.92TB Gen 3 NVMe drive.

Baldur's Gate 3 requires an SSD, so if you're using a HDD then you need it moving to an SSD.

And:

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Possibly but they did not clarify. Verifying the entire game takes about 5 to 6 mins on my PC with BG3 being on an SSD.

Whereas you have BG3 on an HDD.

Publicado originalmente por macdavido:

(Verification Baldur's Gate 3 took 1+ hour!!! - not acceptable, my machine is very very fast!).

[Piston Smashed™]

Taken from BG3 store page

MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 150 GB available space
>>>>>>>>>> Additional Notes: SSD required <<<<<<<<<<

Your Seagate drive might be a good drive but it does not meet the minimum requirement for the game.