- #Tww3 mortal empires map patch download#
- #Tww3 mortal empires map update#
- #Tww3 mortal empires map Patch#
#Tww3 mortal empires map Patch#
Overread wrote: Hmm Warhammer 1 and 2 both did mirroring - hence why they always needed something like 30-40 odd GB of free space even if the patch was only a few 100mb
#Tww3 mortal empires map patch download#
Check out your TWW3 install folder, notice in the "data" folder there's several huge files, it seems the way CA approached the game was to bundle things into very large "pack" files, 61GB worth of the game is contained (roughly half) in only 10 files and that is likely why a small patch download results in a large "install", it's having to write small amounts of data to some massive files.
#Tww3 mortal empires map update#
The download was only 315MB but needed to update 56GB worth of files. I don't think this game mirrors things during downloads, and I don't think the practice of mirroring is as common these days as it used to be (probably as SSDs became more popular and requiring much more space than is actually required by the game became less acceptable of a practice). It's done to help minimise errors during the download process so that you've less chance of having to actually download the whole game again. So it can appear that the download is vast when that's actually the files being copied and checked on the drive rather than the actual amount being downloaded. Overread wrote: It's important to remember that the game mirrors the game files during the downloading process and steam reports on this/gets confused at times. For a big '1.2' patch, I'm thoroughly underwhelmed. I'm definitely on the 'who cares without immortal empires' end of things. In the end it took about half an hour, but I'm afraid my irritation and bitterness with CA was spilling over (and my update experiences with them is legitimately worse than any other company or game). This is on an SSD mind you, I imagine it'll be a bit slower on a spinning disk. but after the first minute or so it jumped back up to 180-ish MB/s and finished off download and update in 8 minutes total.Įven though it has 56GB worth of files to update, it seems like it's just reading and writing some large archives because it goes pretty fast (aside from that first minute). If it continued at that rate it would have taken days to update. It does something weird after downloading and for the first minute or so of updating, the network usage went to zero because obviously it's finished downloading, but the disk usage dropped to almost nothing, like, maybe 1MB/s or less. It only took 1 minute to download and 7 minutes to update. It is convincing me not to uninstall it, because reinstalling it once IE comes out will apparently require leaving for a while and coming back the next day. The estimate will shrink as more gets updated, but CA is so consistently awful at this. Currently its fluctuating between 8-12 hours and 2 days. I've never seen a patch (let alone a 315 MB patch, that somehow requires updating all 56.4 GB of the installed game) tell me its going to take days or months to finish updating. Voss wrote: Sucky patch, and crap update protocols.