cgw Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Endless ARK update Guys, I beg you, you can update the game less often (rarely), Once a week or once a month. Because it is not possible to get into ARK. It's easier to queue up at the only store in the city of a million people than to get into the ARK game. ARK is endlessly updated. Even at 50Mbps, it's unrealistic to wait long for this update to install. I come home,I launch ARK, it updates 3 hours every day and I go to bed. I do not have the opportunity to play it because ARK is endlessly updating something on Steam. The real problem is not even the speed of the connection, but the speed of unpacking, packing and checking files. I have an HDD, not an SSD. Please!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapha Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Sounds like you have not enough free hd space. In this case your PC must constantly use the swap file which is waaaay slower. If your game is not installed on drive C, but e.g. on drive D you need in some cases enough free space on both drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metalminstrel1 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Seems like every time I want to play. I have to wait for updates. Why can’t this game auto update like every other game on my console. Always have to manually update the DLC. Frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgw Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 7/25/2020 at 8:27 PM, Zapha said: Sounds like you have not enough free hd space. In this case your PC must constantly use the swap file which is waaaay slower. If your game is not installed on drive C, but e.g. on drive D you need in some cases enough free space on both drives. I have it installed on C where is Windows Cache HDD 64MB 100Gb is always free. HDD 1000Gb I do not see this as a problem. The problem is this !!! • Daily update. • The game itself takes a very long time to download, my fiber speed is (100% upptime)50 megabits / s loading the game sometimes happens at a speed of 20-1000 kbps (ProblemArkServer) • The game takes a very long time to unpack files, replacing and deleting old files, sometimes each update takes 2-5 hours of time to install updates. Therefore, I have not played in the ARC for 2 years. Because it's unrealistic to wait a long time for an update Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapha Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I have a 16 MBit/sec internet and usually my ARK updates don't need longer than ~30 min, the bigger ones maybe 1 hour. Just that you see what is normal. OK, you have enough free disc space, as next I would asume you maybe pay for 50 MBit but you don't have 50 MBit available, otherwise you would be much faster than me with the updates. Is there a slow WLAN, disc encryption or crazy settings in your router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarcasmDetector Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 5 hours ago, cgw said: I have it installed on C where is Windows Cache HDD 64MB 100Gb is always free. HDD 1000Gb I do not see this as a problem. The problem is this !!! • Daily update. • The game itself takes a very long time to download, my fiber speed is (100% upptime)50 megabits / s loading the game sometimes happens at a speed of 20-1000 kbps (ProblemArkServer) • The game takes a very long time to unpack files, replacing and deleting old files, sometimes each update takes 2-5 hours of time to install updates. Therefore, I have not played in the ARC for 2 years. Because it's unrealistic to wait a long time for an update Steam. ARK needs a lot more than 100Gb to update. you'll need closer to 200GB free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgw Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 17 hours ago, Zapha said: I have a 16 MBit/sec internet and usually my ARK updates don't need longer than ~30 min, the bigger ones maybe 1 hour. Just that you see what is normal. OK, you have enough free disc space, as next I would asume you maybe pay for 50 MBit but you don't have 50 MBit available, otherwise you would be much faster than me with the updates. Is there a slow WLAN, disc encryption or crazy settings in your router? I explain what the Internet gives me 50mbit / s (6.25MB per second) input and 50mbit / s (6.25MB per second) output stable. screen https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n9uYPr14XSyqeo5ecqTpLOfvoELqIAdN/view?usp=sharing But ARK servers are serving much slower on Steam. 16 hours ago, SarcasmDetector said: ARK needs a lot more than 100Gb to update. you'll need closer to 200GB free. My ARK already installed takes 185GB. And another 100Gb of empty disk. Installation is 100 times slower than the disk can produce. disk https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/WD-Black-1TB-2010/Rating/1580 Because ARK unpacks and packs small files. it will take time. And if there are updates every day, then it is impossible to play ARK. Because I'm waiting for endless updates every day. ARK itself works seamlessly. But updates are a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapha Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 But there aren't updates every day. Sometimes it could be that there are three small updates in a row because of exploit fixing. But usually there is not more than one update per week in average. Do you have installed dozens of mods which are looking daily for updates? It's true that the unpacking of the updates is not very efficient, and if I have a 30 min update, half of the time is downloading and the other half unpacking, but all in all it does not explain why you with your 50 Mbit line needs way too long compared to others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgw Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 Empyrion Galactic Survival game 500 mb. updated for 4 minutes. Other games update quickly too. ARK 250 Mb game was updated for 15 minutes. The update downloads slowly and the update installs slowly. Internet 50mbit / s (6.25MB per second) HDD WD-Black-1TB WD1002FAEX On 7/28/2020 at 11:12 PM, Zapha said: Do you have installed dozens of mods which are looking daily for updates? I have no mods except 4 popular maps On 7/28/2020 at 11:12 PM, Zapha said: It's true that the unpacking of the updates is not very efficient, and if I have a 30 min update, half of the time is downloading and the other half unpacking, but all in all it does not explain why you with your 50 Mbit line needs way too long compared to others. 50 Mbit/s (6.25Mb per second) is the minimum tariff, my provider, missing (no) less. On 7/28/2020 at 11:12 PM, Zapha said: But there aren't updates every day. Sometimes it could be that there are three small updates in a row because of exploit fixing. But usually there is not more than one update per week in average. I don't know, I see ARK(update) very often. almost every day. Other games are updated quickly and once a week or a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyoftheWoods Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 I ran into this issue because steam is installed onto a diff drive than ark and i needed approximately 3x the amount of space that the actual update takes for it to properly update. Otherwise itd just spiral off into oblivion and eventually fail. I once had a screenie if my timer taking like 40+ years to update. Id basically be dead before it finished. Once i uninstalled a bunch of stuff itd finish tho. I also have atrociously awful internet living in the middle of nowhere but itd still work if i ran it overnight and definitely does not update every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickjyc Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 On 7/25/2020 at 10:05 PM, cgw said: Endless ARK update Guys, I beg you, you can update the game less often (rarely), Once a week or once a month. Because it is not possible to get into ARK. It's easier to queue up at the only store in the city of a million people than to get into the ARK game. ARK is endlessly updated. Even at 50Mbps, it's unrealistic to wait long for this update to install. I come home,I launch ARK, it updates 3 hours every day and I go to bed. I do not have the opportunity to play it because ARK is endlessly updating something on Steam. The real problem is not even the speed of the connection, but the speed of unpacking, packing and checking files. I have an HDD, not an SSD. Please!!! omegle the unpacking of the updates is not very efficient, and if I have a 30 min update, half of the time is downloading and the other half unpacking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omGAJE Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I had a similar issue before when I was playing on a lot of unofficial modded servers. I have a feeling something to do with the mods causes the issue. I removed the mods folder from my Ark directory and unsubscribed from the mods in Steam, since then I've been playing on official and haven't had any issues with updates. Not sure if this helps but thought I'd give some input from someone that was also having endless update problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgw Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Endless updates. This is a vanilla ARK without mods. It is impossible to enter the game. It is updated endlessly for several hours, almost every day. With fiber-optic internet 40Mbit. ping on survivetheark.com 71ms HDD 6Gb/s. WB Black. Win10x64H https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/WD-Black-1TB-2010/Rating/1580 Other games are instantly downloaded and installed. Astroneer 825Mb downloaded and installed in 5 minutes. No Man'Sky 35mb downloaded and installed in 6 seconds. At the same time, downloading from other games is usually once a month or once a week. But not every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKizz Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 He's right though. This game updates an OBNOXIOUS amount. 3x today for resets. It's ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abecy Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 cuz they F up everytime they update, so they need to fix the previous update with this update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjskdjkfa Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Abecy said: cuz they F up everytime they update, so they need to fix the previous update with this update. And then fix the fix, ad infinitum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0b1983 Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I've been kicked from my one person tribe cause of this update. I tried putting in ticket but ty hey cant help cause its not our problem. WHOS PROBLEM IS HUH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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