is there a way to not download the whole game every update?
#Updates
wise hemlock
west seal
Probably not. That's more an issue with how Steam handles updates to games on the Unreal Engine, IIRC. It's been a problem with other games based on the same engine. They've improved things a lot but it needs more work.
They being Valve. It's beyond the control of developers other than what engine they choose to work in.
Separately, however, it doesn't actually download the whole game. Steam displays the amount of data it's patching, which is why it looks as though it's updating the whole thing. See my screenshot in #screenshots for an example of the download size vs the patching size. Below the progress bar on the right, the download is on the left indicated with the down arrow-ish icon with the patch on the right.
noble barn
You're not downloading the whole game every time. It's a 4.53GB update.
It patches most of the game each time though, due to the way steam deltas the pak files.
wise hemlock
You're not downloading the whole game every time. It's a 4.53GB update.
It **pat...
i had to dowload the 32GB last week
west seal
Do you have a way to check if that was the actual download size? My Steam looks different but I'd be surprised if Valve is wasting bandwidth when they don't need to. That tends to cost them actual money.
wise hemlock
noble barn
Are you running Mods? Are you updating every week or delaying updates for a few weeks at a time?
west seal
That's really odd, yeah.
wise hemlock
No mods, i'm playing for no more than 2 weeks. and i had all updates
noble barn
Hrrm, no idea why you'd be downloading 30GBs when it should be 5GB.
Were you on the experimental branch or something?
noble barn
Actually, again, I think you're confusing the download size vs the patch size.
west seal
It's not on an external drive or something that may be disappearing, confusing Steam as a result, is it?
wise hemlock
It's not on an external drive or something that may be disappearing, confusing S...
I only have an Nvme SSD
west seal
I just can't see Valve doing that. It's costing them 6x what it should if they do. Sure, it's probably only a few cents overall but that literally makes no sense.
I'd be willing to bet Steam simply isn't displaying it properly for some reason. Maybe next patch, install something like NetWorx which can track actual data downloaded on a per-app basis and make sure.
noble barn
I dunno why your UI looks different to mine, but this is what an actual 30GB download + 38GB update looks like on my end.
As your UI doesn't seem to be displaying the download size from the update size separately like mine, I can only assume they're grouping them together and not showing you the true download size
noble barn
Oh actually, i have that newer UI on my other machine. This was today's update running just now:
