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Steam Downloaded 6.9Gb

Started by Lily from animove, Mar 16 2016 02:47 AM

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#1 Lily from animove

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 02:47 AM

Why? Did they changed the entire Steam games data? Thats surely not only the textures I guess, or is it?.

#2 MonkeyCheese

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 03:17 AM

We were warned about this. It is the larger texture files. Read the patch notes.

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 04:28 AM

I use Steam and it only took ~10 minutes to update. Logged in and verified functional. If for no other reason that alone makes Steam worth using for me.

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 04:33 AM

View Postcdlord, on 16 March 2016 - 04:28 AM, said:

I use Steam and it only took ~10 minutes to update. Logged in and verified functional. If for no other reason that alone makes Steam worth using for me.


Yup, only took me 20 minutes with steam and that was with the kids watching netflix and my wife watching youtube.

They gave us almost a week's warning that it was going to be big.

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 04:37 AM

A pre download was also available. Took me less than 20 min as well

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 05:08 AM

This is why I still prefer the good ol' MWO Patcher. The download through it was only 6.33GB instead of 6.9GB. Saved about 580MB.

I still have no idea why the Steam downloads are so much larger than going straight through MWO's own patcher.

#7 Tyler Valentine

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 07:48 AM

View Postcdlord, on 16 March 2016 - 04:28 AM, said:

I use Steam and it only took ~10 minutes to update. Logged in and verified functional. If for no other reason that alone makes Steam worth using for me.


Took 11 minutes with regular MWO client...

#8 CDLord HHGD

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 07:52 AM

View PostTyler Valentine, on 16 March 2016 - 07:48 AM, said:


Took 11 minutes with regular MWO client...

Pre-Steam I remember my patches taking a lot longer.... Maybe there is no universal answer here. To each their own, use what works best of the options provided.

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 07:54 AM

View Postcdlord, on 16 March 2016 - 07:52 AM, said:

Pre-Steam I remember my patches taking a lot longer.... Maybe there is no universal answer here. To each their own, use what works best of the options provided.


Hey you hit tier 2!... sorry man Posted Image

#10 CDLord HHGD

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Posted 16 March 2016 - 07:56 AM

View PostTyler Valentine, on 16 March 2016 - 07:54 AM, said:


Hey you hit tier 2!... sorry man Posted Image

Yeah, I made a thread about it and everything too. Posted Image
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