Game Update takes forever to install

[Certified Brick Eater]

The title says it all. Recently I downloaded an update that was 20mb. It had finished downloading and then took 30 minutes to install it. It now does this for everything I download. At this point it takes less time for me to download it then it does to install it. It has never done this before. Is there a new update that makes steam do this or am I just stupid and hit a tick box that I shouldn't have. Please help

[Sparx]

Some updates take much longer to install than to download. This isn't really something that you can control, as far as I'm aware. It also depends on the game; for instance Payday 2 updates take twice as long to install than to download for me. Unfortunately, this seems to just be the way Steam works.

[fefwefwef]

yes i agree

[jim.d.kayla.j]

Well, this update for "The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare" was only 319MB, but now says 10 days and 5 hours to finish installing the update it downloaded. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Well, by the time I finished typing the above it had dropped back to 18 hours to go.

[FortuneCookie]

Same thing happened to me with dirty bomb....minutes ago it showed 5 days left......now it says 20 mins left

[Grumbleng]

recent path of exile 23.3 mb update is taking forever to install. All the while crippling my hdd. Steam updater is total crap.
I know why this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happens. It happens because steam packs the whole installed game into archive called Content.ggpk and then does a lot of useless crap with it that takes forever to finish. Some games can take tens of gygabytes. Why can't they just redistribute already installed copy of the game like torrents. it would be so much easier and faster. What's the point of packing it into archive to just unpack it right after other than taking useless amount of time?

[Cathulhu]

It's not Steam, it's the developer that decided to compress the whole game into one big file.

[Sparx]

SydykovAybek eredeti hozzászólása:

recent path of exile 23.3 mb update is taking forever to install. All the while crippling my hdd. Steam updater is total crap.
I know why this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happens. It happens because steam packs the whole installed game into archive called Content.ggpk and then does a lot of useless crap with it that takes forever to finish. Some games can take tens of gygabytes. Why can't they just redistribute already installed copy of the game like torrents. it would be so much easier and faster. What's the point of packing it into archive to just unpack it right after other than taking useless amount of time?

That would take way more bandwidth for Valve and cost way more money. When you think about the scale of Steam, even a tiny difference in download size can cause a massive decrease in required bandwidth over the lifetime of the game.

[Aku No Akuma]

on Rust it says Preparing to launch rust... but it's taking forever to "prepare"

[EvidencePlz]

having the same issue here

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Steam Servers are down guys, cant download/update anything.

[dirpot]

im installing unturned but it takes 10 days to install wtf?

[76561198859601090]

Grumbleng eredeti hozzászólása:

recent path of exile 23.3 mb update is taking forever to install. All the while crippling my hdd. Steam updater is total crap.
I know why this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happens. It happens because steam packs the whole installed game into archive called Content.ggpk and then does a lot of useless crap with it that takes forever to finish. Some games can take tens of gygabytes. Why can't they just redistribute already installed copy of the game like torrents. it would be so much easier and faster. What's the point of packing it into archive to just unpack it right after other than taking useless amount of time?

They do this to save on bandwidth many have caps so packing it tight as they can while it does take longer to install saves tons of bandwidth for those less fortunate.

[Snipe Frame]

It wears on your Data from your ISP, if you have a cap, which most do at 1.5 TB, then these downloads are feeding into our Internet Data limits, they need to find another way to get these downloads done, FFS this is a Multi Billion dollar corp that touts innovative thinking and tech, let's see it.

[Certified Brick Eater]

Snipe Frame eredeti hozzászólása:

It wears on your Data from your ISP, if you have a cap, which most do at 1.5 TB, then these downloads are feeding into our Internet Data limits, they need to find another way to get these downloads done, FFS this is a Multi Billion dollar corp that touts innovative thinking and tech, let's see it.

Dude thank you so much! I've been waiting literally 7 years for something to solve this