Psyleste Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Patches always take forever, any help? Per the title. Every new patch for Ark has taken over 2 hours for me to download and patch in. PC running through steam. I know it's not my DL speeds or HDD, because I just downloaded a 40 GB game and installed in less than 20 mins, but a 500mb ARK patch somehow takes 2 hours? Any help beyond Verify Integrity of game files (done this a few times now) would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aylana314159 Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 It is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted May 26, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted May 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Psyleste said: Patches always take forever, any help? Per the title. Every new patch for Ark has taken over 2 hours for me to download and patch in. PC running through steam. I know it's not my DL speeds or HDD, because I just downloaded a 40 GB game and installed in less than 20 mins, but a 500mb ARK patch somehow takes 2 hours? Any help beyond Verify Integrity of game files (done this a few times now) would be appreciated. Updates are pushed by VALVe's network, and Tuesdays are their weekly maintenance day. Selecting a different region can accelerate downloads in some cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddotjellytot Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Its Steam end, a bit strange why its only slow as hell with Ark updates tho, I can only guess its WC pushing out super compressed patches, steam has to unpack all that data and install it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinobros2000 Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Ark is weird, probaly does for most people.. mine dosent take toooo long though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edandbunny Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 47 minutes ago, reddotjellytot said: Its Steam end, a bit strange why its only slow as hell with Ark updates tho, I can only guess its WC pushing out super compressed patches, steam has to unpack all that data and install it. Its not just Ark. Last week my wife had to update Monster Hunter World and the download through Steam was just as slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erinn Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Its weird for me too. The first 400mb downloaded in 5 minutes. Then the download speed dropped to 0 and only disk usage was active. After 20-25 minutes it downloaded 50mb, then stopped again. Last 10-14mb was downloaded in 45 minutes, and it was constantly interrupted after every 2mb. Ark is the only game thats downloading files like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1nkDodo Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Likewise, waiting for an update to do it's thing just now and it's taking ages. Changing regions sounds interesting, will have to try it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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