Disabling automatic re-verification after download

[El Mebaj]

Is it possible to disable the automatic verification process on games that were just downloaded? It's getting ridiculous how I download a 100 Gb game in a little less than 40 minutes, and then Steam re-verifies the entire game instantly after finishing the download and initial verification, and it takes 4+ hours because it barely uses 1% of my disk and cpu.

I don't remember this being a thing until recently, and it's getting pretty frustrating, to the point where I might stop using the platform altogether for games that aren't already on my disk.

[rawWwRrr]

It's not new. You're just noticing it. And, no, it's part of the download process. 100GB game is big regardless of how you look at it. Big games require big resources.

[El Mebaj]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

It's not new. You're just noticing it. And, no, it's part of the download process. 100GB game is big regardless of how you look at it. Big games require big resources.

I know it's part of the download process, as it does it at the end of the download, and it takes up a chunk of the percentage of the whole process. My problem is that after all that is done, Steam just up and goes and verifies it again, at 10mb/s disk usage at best, which takes hours at most of the games I own.

My problem is that it does a much slower re-verification after the initial download and verification is done. I don't remember needing an entire day to install big games, and Steam needing to manually re-verify the entire folder.

Elite: Dangerous, Fallout 4, SWTOR, Phantasy Star Online 2, and similar sized games all took around an hour all-in-all from the point of starting the download, to the point of being able to launch the game. Right now I'm sitting at 15 hours to verify PSO2, with Steam barely using any Disk or CPU or Memory, and nothing else hogging up system resources that would take it away from Steam. This does not happen on any other platform, and has only started recently on Steam, and my PC has no problems writing and reading at 130mb/s+.

I've just downloaded Division 2 the other day from Ubisoft Connect, and it was done in like half an hour, download, verification and all.

[White Che Guevara]

Originally posted by Ben:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

It's not new. You're just noticing it. And, no, it's part of the download process. 100GB game is big regardless of how you look at it. Big games require big resources.

I know it's part of the download process, as it does it at the end of the download, and it takes up a chunk of the percentage of the whole process. My problem is that after all that is done, Steam just up and goes and verifies it again, at 10mb/s disk usage at best, which takes hours at most of the games I own.

My problem is that it does a much slower re-verification after the initial download and verification is done. I don't remember needing an entire day to install big games, and Steam needing to manually re-verify the entire folder.

Elite: Dangerous, Fallout 4, SWTOR, Phantasy Star Online 2, and similar sized games all took around an hour all-in-all from the point of starting the download, to the point of being able to launch the game. Right now I'm sitting at 15 hours to verify PSO2, with Steam barely using any Disk or CPU or Memory, and nothing else hogging up system resources that would take it away from Steam. This does not happen on any other platform, and has only started recently on Steam, and my PC has no problems writing and reading at 130mb/s+.

I've just downloaded Division 2 the other day from Ubisoft Connect, and it was done in like half an hour, download, verification and all.

Did you ever figure this out? Same thing keeps happening to me. I've been trying to verify a game for almost 2 days now and it slows down to as little as 1Mb/s disk speed at times

[Iceira]

Ask steam support, whats going on here, you are not alone, and there was a before they change it and now, but with what, this has been seen over time get worse, and no we dont know with what, its like try Find the clues with files made in what game devs did in past or do now. and that's impossible.

to sit here and blaim game devs for incremental patching might work for some tech ppl, but it dont help to the debat, any maybe this is the new way to do it, but then its not a FULL DL and if it is, then you just made my point why re-validate everything after its DL.

you need to be skilled or very educate in such, and know how thirdpart client is, that refetch more this is same way as they do it here maybe, recheck all after so called installation.

mayde steam and game devs is the problem here, and both need to figure it out.
just because, i have a idea of this, dont make it right, you only need 1 checksum error and then you can start over, as you do now re-validate everything.

[securekill]

I'm trying to copy files to external hard drive, takes forever. Then Steam demands to verify the files and it's going to take like 30 minutes. I stop it, and Steam DELETES THE FILES it didn't verify. Now I have to start all over. Valve, I'm really losing patience with you. This is unacceptable.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by securekill:

I'm trying to copy files to external hard drive, takes forever. Then Steam demands to verify the files and it's going to take like 30 minutes. I stop it, and Steam DELETES THE FILES it didn't verify. Now I have to start all over. Valve, I'm really losing patience with you. This is unacceptable.

Use Steam > Settings > Storage and move the game to the external drive.

[Emma]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.