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10th May 2011, 08:43 PM
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Larger than normal updates
I've had a few patches download for a few games that are bigger than what other people are getting. Today a 90MB Section 8 update was 5GB for me. Recently a small (<50MB) magicka patch was over 2GB for me; one of the blackops patches was only a few MB for others but for me was 9GB.
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10th May 2011, 08:49 PM
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Is Steam installed properly? It sounds like Steam isn't read/writing properly from the install location.
I would recommend a clean install of Steam as a first step. Cleanly reinstalling Steam - Valve Developer Community If possible, install it to a non-OS drive. Last edited by Jigoku; 10th May 2011 at 08:56 PM. |
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10th May 2011, 09:51 PM
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Happens to me occasionally too.
3.3Gb Team Fortress 2 update just a couple of days ago. I'm thinking some sort of corruption does it. I did try verify cache before attempting the large download, but didn't help. Last edited by MadMax; 10th May 2011 at 10:00 PM. |
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10th May 2011, 09:59 PM
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thanks for the suggestion.
Have got as far as installing steam and when it goes to do the first install update it terminates with this error: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...5322-QYZB-5344 this has happened in the past and running steam.exe from the steam folder has usually fixed it. But this may be an indication that you are correct and I have some permission problems...i wonder if AVG is causing the issue. I'll keep going and see what happens. If pain persists I will try the separation of the OS option however as this is a ASUS gaming laptop that is a major bit of partitioning surgery for me and a last resort. Last edited by SJ777; 10th May 2011 at 10:01 PM. |
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11th May 2011, 12:25 AM
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Sometimes Steam lies about the size too. I've had the big 3-5GB showing but when it finishes downloading and you look at the amount downloaded it is usually much less.
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