Steam patching taking forever

[Hyper Jumper97]

Hello
Steam patching is taking forever to finish, I don't understand why. (all the games take forever)
Small download size huge patch size.
Can someone help me.

[Alireza]

12 minutes ago, Hyper Jumper97 said:

Hello
Steam patching is taking forever to finish, I don't understand why. (all the games take forever)
Small download size huge patch size.
Can someone help me.

because they will change 100 KB of data in a 5 GB texture file

it will minimize your downloads to save internet bandwidth but your system has to rewrite the whole 5 GB chunk or chunks (size will vary based on game)

its a neat feature at least for me because my system is all NVMe and it literally takes less then 2 minutes to patch 99% of games

but 9 hours is too much

i can smell you may have a bad HDD

[Hyper Jumper97]

3 minutes ago, Alireza said:

because they will change 100 KB of data in a 5 GB texture file

it will minimize your downloads to save internet bandwidth but your system has to rewrite the whole 5 GB chunk or chunks (size will vary based on game)

its a neat feature at least for me because my system is all NVMe and it literally takes less then 2 minutes to patch 99% of games

but 9 hours is too much

i can smell you may have a bad HDD

When i copy thing to my ssd it's realy fast only steam is this slow ?

 

[BiotechBen]

1 minute ago, Hyper Jumper97 said:

When i copy thing to my ssd it's realy fast only steam is this slow ?

 

Looks like it hit a speed bump, can sometimes happen, if you take a look it currently isn't doing anything, so until it starts to, it will increase in completion time indefinitely. 

[Alireza]

Just now, Hyper Jumper97 said:

When i copy thing to my ssd it's realy fast only steam is this slow ?

 

does you hard drive makes funny noises?

if you gently move your hands on it or get you ear near it now

is it working and spinning without hiccups?

yes it may move data at a really good speed to your ssd but the HDD can be faulty when it comes to random write which is what im suspecting here

post a screenshot of your hard drive with crystal disk info

also @BiotechBenmight be right too

[Donut417]

30 minutes ago, Hyper Jumper97 said:

Can someone help me.

Are you installing the games on the SSD or HDD? I notice the HDD in the picture is at 100% usage. HDD are much slower than SSDs. Another thing is listed above. In order to Lessen download file size, some of us have data caps after all. They will compress the data and when you get to the install phase, it has to decompress the data and install it. This can take time. 

[OhioYJ]

Phasmophobia updates kind of slowly anyways (they've been having a lot of updates recently too...). It shouldn't take an actual 9 hours, but a several minutes is nothing to be concerned about.

[Hyper Jumper97]

  

35 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Are you installing the games on the SSD or HDD? I notice the HDD in the picture is at 100% usage. HDD are much slower than SSDs. Another thing is listed above. In order to Lessen download file size, some of us have data caps after all. They will compress the data and when you get to the install phase, it has to decompress the data and install it. This can take time. 

All the games are on the ssd, i'm doing a disk defragment right now.
That is why the hdd is on 100%.

[C2dan88]

Restart steam.

If it still has not completed. Cancel update and verify integrity of game files

[TheTimn]

On 1/1/2023 at 5:34 PM, Hyper Jumper97 said:

  

All the games are on the ssd, i'm doing a disk defragment right now.
That is why the hdd is on 100%.

I apologize for reviving a dead thread, but just ran into a similar issue, and would like to add for the future. 

 

I had my HDD listed as storage in steam, and found that it was bottlenecking my SSD just by being available. When my game was patching, it would download to the SSD just fine, but it seems like it was using the HDD space to dump and decompress before patching the data on the SSD.

 

Cancelling the patch, removing the storage from steam (I had to cancel the update because the storage device was in use) and then restarting fixed it.

[MadTurnip]

On 7/24/2023 at 12:58 AM, TheTimn said:

I apologize for reviving a dead thread, but just ran into a similar issue, and would like to add for the future. 

 

I had my HDD listed as storage in steam, and found that it was bottlenecking my SSD just by being available. When my game was patching, it would download to the SSD just fine, but it seems like it was using the HDD space to dump and decompress before patching the data on the SSD.

 

Cancelling the patch, removing the storage from steam (I had to cancel the update because the storage device was in use) and then restarting fixed it.

THANK YOU!

 

This has been a problem for me for 7 years!

This is a pretty big issue in steam to be running under the hood with no configurable option.

I have 5 disks in my PC and steam was using my NAS drive over the other four SSD's.

You can determine what disk steam is using through task manager -> resource monitor -> disk (scroll to bottom and check storage) when steam is updating a game.

There is little to no documentation of this bug.

Steam is installed on an SSD, while most games are on an SSD also. This disk just happened to have the most free space.

Default directory was also set to an SSD, so its just choosing it on its own.