extremely slow patching?
By
Amanita,
Posted on: 2010-05-19 17:30 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
How quickly a patch is applied will vary depending on what files are being patched but for the most part is has to do with your computer, and more specifically your drive's read/write speed.
If your drive is close to full or fragmented, it adds to your patching time. If you don't regularily defrag your drive, download Defraggler from my signature link.
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Actually if the OP doesn't have a lot of free memory that will hurt patch times as well. Also having a free core that can dedicate itself to the patching process also helps.
Then there's the way it estimates the amount of time left in the patching process. It's not as bad as Microsoft's copy time estimates but does tend to start off estimating that it'll take a good long time to finish and as the process goes on the estimate goes down faster than the actual time that's passed.
Remember the patcher will read every file, one at a time, into memory, calculate a checksum/md5/sha1 hash to verify the file is correct, apply a patch if needed, recalculate the checksum/md5/sha1 hash to verify the file is still correct and then write it back to disk. Every pigg file is rewritten to disk, even if it didn't change, which can fragment the pigg files (the largest one is over 300MB) if you don't have a lot of large blocks of free space on your hard drive.
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Ahh..My hard drive is getting rather full, so there's some more reason for me to get out the new external drive I got and start transferring stuff off.
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I've noticed that patching takes an extremely long time lately. Downloading isn't the problem, it's applying. Today's patch was extremely small, but it's saying 29 minutes to apply!? What the hell?
It's only been recently that patching has been THIS painful. What is going on here?
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