Games won't update properly and continue to grow in size when updating ?

[Moomin]

I've noticed that whenever I update a game, Steam restarts the update the moment it's done just to add more MB/GB to the update. I've had to update SCUM and even though it said 127 MB at first, it continued growing up to 18GB, same goes for DBD.. even though the update was originally 47MB it's now at 10 GB. I don't know how to fix this since stopping the download or closing Steam doesn't help. It's super annoying since these updates aren't supposed to take forever, someone please help

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Doesn't sound normal, unless you're pausing for long period of time then resuming it, which could cause problems to redownloading the game files.

Ensure that your anti virus isn't causing problems with the client, nor the game files, as well the permissions.

[Moomin]

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 eredeti hozzászólása:

Doesn't sound normal, unless you're pausing for long period of time then resuming it, which could cause problems to redownloading the game files.

Ensure that your anti virus isn't causing problems with the client, nor the game files, as well the permissions.

I'm not pausing the downloads nor is my anti virus doing anything :(. It suddenly started happening since like the last few updates I've done.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Things you can try to see if it fixes your problems when you get future updates for your games, best of luck.

- Opt into Steam beta, if already in it, opt out instead.

- Redownloading client files. Head to where you install Steam, go inside Steam folder, delete everything except for Steamapps folder, and steam.exe, once done then run Steam.exe, and see issue resolved.

[Satoru]

Note that there are 2 parts of the download

1) the patch file
2) the patching of the actual files

games like DBD and SCUM update a significat portion of their game data on each patch. Just let the patching do its thing. Those games will take time as you ae CPU and disk IO limited

I did a DBD update now and it said it was corrupted. Its possible maybe there's a bad DBD update going out? I'm reapplying the patch now.

the dbd update finished fine, not sure why the initial 48mb patch failed