Overly Large Steam Patches

By Jeffers 3 years ago

This is just starting to get annoying now.

I downloaded The Sacrifice DLC with no issues, I downloaded all 3gb without hassle and played it to death. I downloaded a few updates about a week ago without issue but now it's just decided to hit me for another 3gb patch after I already downloaded everything before it.

I've downloaded every patch except for the latest one, and that's only because it expects me to download 3gb for a single patch that isn't even a map pack or anything like that. Why is it so and how do i fix it?

It isn't like other games where you start the download and the bar fills to where the patch download begins, it starts at 0mb and ends at 3gb.

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    Posted 3 years ago

    Tried deleting clientregistery.blob.

    It made the patch 4gb. Fuck this shit.

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    Posted 3 years ago

    I think its because its patching individual files. My tf2 does this, but its nothing to worry about it will be about the same size as the other patches.

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    Posted 3 years ago

    Are you sure it's actually downloading that much. I've noticed recently while downloading games/updates on Steam that even if it says 6GB for example, sometimes it will only download 4GB and then say done. Specifically, this happened when I downloaded L4D2 last weekend.

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    Posted 3 years ago

    I downloaded it today, it said 4gb but only downloaded 2gb. Still, 2gb is a lot of usage for someone who gets penalised for downloading too much.

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    Posted 3 years ago

    Yeh it can be a bit ridiculous at times, I dunno how people with slow connections cope!

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