Please stop pushing out patches in the multiple GB's!

[Hexen]

Edit: Never mind, my bad.

Hey, nothing wrong with expressing your opinion. I disagree but it doesn't mean that you can't speak your mind. Nothing bad in that.

 

[FredTA]

I know right! IT really p!sses me off how hard FD are working to fix the game's issues

 

[Gleep]

That was 56 kbit/s.... my first one was 33.5 kbit/s

that was fast, i remember this as my first modem, and i remember my Dad having slower ones !!!!!
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[TriumphANT]

That was 56 kbit/s.... my first one was 33.5 kbit/s

Back in the early nineties my whole company was connected to the 'net via a PAD system which was on a 9600 baud backbone. I used to have to transfer text files via Kermit to Edinburgh Uni. Even a 12K data file would take around 10-15 seconds to send.

33K6 was typical in 1995-1996 with 56K (which wasn't really 56K, but that's a different story) high-end at first, and then more popular by 1998. I was on broadband, 512K cable, in 1999 and only changed my Motorola SB4100 modem this year when I went up to 50Mbit.

To stay on topic, the patches seem perfect to me. 1 or 2 minutes, so I'd be guessing around the 300-500MB mark?

 

[bitstorm]

That was 56 kbit/s.... my first one was 33.5 kbit/s

Mine was a 2400 baud modem.

Which to convert to today's terms is ~1.2kbit/s. =p

 

[Milky82]

I can't know something is wrong until I speak up and see how other's are getting on.

The replies to this thread have mostly been hostile, not what I expected at all.

Yes I was mistaken and I apologise, but it was preventing me from playing a game I'd just bought and I was (rightfully) frustrated.

That's quite you can't, maybe next time though you could ask a question such as "Is there an issue with patches or are the patches for the game exceedingly large ?" What you did is moan that FD shouldn't be doing something like producing large patches which is

A: Bleating for no good reason and B: Bleating for no good reason

 

[QuantumTron]

Thanks for the advice.

Thinking about it, my line is technically 12mbit, which would mean 1mb/s would be about right. It seems to be consistently downloading at about 0.7, so ~700k/sec, so I can't complain about the speed really.

Again, I think it's an installation issue that I hadn't considered when making the initial post.

Thanks to those helpful replies guys. Without chatting to others I had no way of knowing everyone wasn't experiencing the same.

Another factor could be your hard drive access times. The nature of the ED patching is this (more or less) :
1) Download a manifest of files to be checked against what's on the hard drive.
2) For each item in that manifest, check to see if A) The file exists and B) The file that exists is the same version as the one in the manifest.
3) If 2A or 2B is false, then that file will be downloaded from the ED servers.

Steps 2 & 3 involve a lot of disk accessing - reading and writing. If your drive is being slow for whatever reason, then this problem could appear as "It takes ages for patching!!".

Search for a decent drive speed checking utility. Also, check to see if your filesystem need defragmenting - that might speed things up a tad too.

Hope this helps.

 

[bitstorm]

Ok

Just got home downloaded patch.

So our multi-gigabyte patch is in fact.....

Go on have a guess in your mind, how by do you think it will be?

Spoiler

wait for it!

Spoiler

A massive 26.34MB over 19 files, not multiple gigabytes, 20 odd meg!


/elitedangerous/win/manifests/Retail1.03_Final+%282014.12.18.54398%29.xml.gz 147645
/elitedangerous/win/files/15/9b008cc000b483f766b858e04bf8866ef650cd 1357
/elitedangerous/win/files/9f/53ce4f12ef112f2f12c7424a3a9e4d5e75c346 21078016
/elitedangerous/win/files/a1/ceafc6f108ae9e5b15150a6cbe24ff752492c5 97
/elitedangerous/win/files/9f/897605a78c166cc7654f592067ef02b008b427 1269220
/elitedangerous/win/files/82/e9694bbc5ab86413cdd3259584dbf3a2b4a835 22678
/elitedangerous/win/files/de/227529b9ddcae0cf00cd72b50d2154358956fa 401542
/elitedangerous/win/files/3b/54464c3ef6ad1f56d7406a3e759090dc09e96d 103542
/elitedangerous/win/files/02/c83505d9a29602fabf895cecf4491e597a9028 15391
/elitedangerous/win/files/77/0a5f41644c6e9995e8bf2653723195f1632aa3 129369
/elitedangerous/win/files/d1/1beb33ab5c9c194b75299ba5a8c99161a7adea 439587
/elitedangerous/win/files/79/bfa5cbebefff6f96c1651229c951ea050c7ecf 213750
/elitedangerous/win/files/f4/ea9995860fc250d7de72035edac77e06588f43 650
/elitedangerous/win/files/c7/f1c48388de350c86d57ce5eb35a28c4be2a8c4 1293
/elitedangerous/win/files/63/e99e1ccb796dbb31884775f127c5ed489023cf 907568
/elitedangerous/win/files/d0/4048bad224f583b303a5afd215b6ea2c7d4a80 925074
/elitedangerous/win/files/df/c94cbb3ce9dac86f6bb16145de2778c7d5e474 925916
/elitedangerous/win/files/ca/30d6d14d573b2b361f418ed98d58a9e16e587e 1033208
/elitedangerous/win/files/b3/285b1445a8d3b80ae89bf6b386c8ad38ca9d4b 8305

Honestly man, this forum. =p