CANNOT PLAY NEW GAMES PURCHASED DVD DOWNLOAD ENTIRE GAME

[76561198062637985]

i have purchased 2 games for my son, both are dvd's purchased from JBHIFI here in Australia. new games. son excited. trying to install and play. NO GO. have to download combination of 50GB to play. both when installing, on install also try to install steam when steam is already installed. just horrible. ready to give up on any steam games purchased through retailers here in Australia same experience with EB games. just horrible. anyway to install these games via DVD without re downloading entire game to play?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

not from the discs, no.

the games on dvds are first release versions that require updates to get to the current version.

you just skip the steam installation part of the prompt.

[Chompman]

The problem is physical media like cd-roms of dvd's do not have enough room on them to store larger games on them so they come with a minimal installation on them and you need to download the full game with steam.

Most normal dvd's only have 4.7ish gb of space on them so what else did you expect?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

it is also about the post release updates for the game.

[Forcen]

I'm confused, where you not able to install from the disk at all?
Or are you talking about the downloading you have to do after the install?

If you can install then you could compare how much data you save, you can check the download size for a game without actually downloading it all and compare it to the patching after you install. You should be saving a bit of data at least?

This is unfortunately the reality of games today, some games are worse at patching than others and lots of them are "bad" at them now. One game got a patch last year that required you to re-download the whole 50gb again and that patch was bad so they had to roll it back for another 50gb.

You could compare it to a car where you have to replace the entire engine just to fix a small tiny broken thing because the engine is built like that. Some games are just structured like that in the files that a tiny fix requires you to download way way more than just the part that changed.

Stuff like this is bigger problems in some places than others as I'm sure you are aware, unfortunately there isn't much we can do.

[HLCinSC]

Not all retail games include all or even some of the data/content. It is up to the game's publisher what they include. If you continue to buy physical PC games, make sure you follow the steps listed here to get the most out of your disc's data.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5357-FSQM-0382

[jekehu]

HLCinSC님이 먼저 게시:

Not all retail games include all or even some of the data/content. It is up to the game's publisher what they include. If you continue to buy physical PC games, make sure you follow the steps listed here to get the most out of your disc's data.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5357-FSQM-0382

I tried this but it didn't work. It still installs only a fraction from the disc despite the DVD containing the full game (7.7 GB).

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

jekehu님이 먼저 게시:

HLCinSC님이 먼저 게시:

Not all retail games include all or even some of the data/content. It is up to the game's publisher what they include. If you continue to buy physical PC games, make sure you follow the steps listed here to get the most out of your disc's data.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5357-FSQM-0382

I tried this but it didn't work. It still installs only a fraction from the disc despite the DVD containing the full game (7.7 GB).

You were already answered in 2 threads you necro'd before necroing this one.