Steam is updating

[Reoh]

[Drac]

that gif is almost as old as the internet tubes

[Jigoku]

Isn't that a pre-HL2 release Steam skin?

[King_Rocket]

It's an old joke that sadly is still rather true, not sure whether to laugh or cry at this point.

[DangerMouse]

LOL - I remember this and it was so true!

[Dreadly]

Just can't keep a good joke down. There are quite a few variations out there.

[Reoh]

Speaking of updating.

I really wish developers would be more frugal with their updates. If I'm installing the 2nd or 3rd update for a game within a month and each of them is around 8.5gb, and there's half a dozen of these games.

WTF Devs, learn to patch!!!

I'm going to have to go through my steam list and delete a bunch of games now just because those !@#$s won't stop asking me to redownload the whole thing because they added ONE achievement.

[Thermal Ions]

From the Steam forums, the new beta contains:

Features
- Initial client side support for upcoming improved content delivery system (groundwork for future performance/reliability improvements to downloads)

This was further clarified a bit further down:

Quote:
Originally Posted by AwayToHit
Does that mean Steam will not delete large files anymore and redownload them again (example: The Witcher 2 ) but instead patch them by only modifying the file? because that would be sweet

Yes, better incremental patching of large files (without the developers having to think about it in advance) is one thing it improves. We'll talk more about what the new content system improves when it gets closer to fully rolling out.

So there is finally hope on the horizon that steam patch download volumes will decrease

[Reoh]

Originally Posted by Thermal Ions

From the Steam forums, the new beta contains:

This was further clarified a bit further down:



So there is finally hope on the horizon that steam patch download volumes will decrease

SWEET!

'Cause I'm at 20GB in the last 24hrs, with another 8GB on pause, and have already had a bunch of big ones recently like I said.

[Avoozl]

Or.. convince your ISPs to not have useage caps.