Long Patching File Wait time

[OnePUnch]

 

I am having a hard time understanding why patching files is taking 10x as long as the download. I never had this problem until Borderlands 4, and if there is a small update, it still takes 10x to patch the files. What is causing this and what can I do to help speed this up?

[Shooterdude34]

Patching is pretty much all disk work, less network. Steam has to read a ton of tiny files, decompress data, rewrite archives, and other things. thatll hammer a drive especially if its a hard drive, and even an almost full ssd will slow things down. any antivirus might also rescan the files steam touches though im not so sure about that. 

what drive is the game on? how much free space? 

[OnePUnch]

Borderlands 4, 99 GB free of a 500GB SSD

[Mark Kaine]

Basically a long standing Steam "bug"... because if you try another time it works super fast...

 

(technically it's something with how steam installs "chunks" or similar I'll still call it a bug ...)

[Mark Kaine]

16 hours ago, Shooterdude34 said:

any antivirus might also rescan the files s

I don't think so because you give steam permission to "make changes to this computer" upon install, so anything goes! 

 

 

16 hours ago, OnePUnch said:

what can I do to help speed this up?

It's not legal doing this...