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3787mb

loverofwarsloverofwars Member Posts: 399 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Windows and General: PC, Network, and Other Technical Issues
anyone else get that big of a patch for server stability?
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  • loverofwarsloverofwars Member Posts: 399 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    this is a bit odd no patch notes besides server stability yet giant patch half the size of lor o.O
  • aexraelaexrael Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You may have file corruption. The patch weren't more than 136 MB.
  • loverofwarsloverofwars Member Posts: 399 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    that does not sound too good game had been fine yesterday and all the files:(
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    loverofwars wrote: »
    that does not sound too good game had been fine yesterday and all the files:(

    Is it possible you had "On Demand Patching" enabled in the launcher, and only recently disabled it?
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  • loverofwarsloverofwars Member Posts: 399 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    oh yes i turned that on what does it do i was curious about it just turned off restarted launcher 135mb patching :-D thought my laptop was dying for a moment thank you :)
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    loverofwars wrote: »
    oh yes i turned that on what does it do i was curious about it just turned off restarted launcher 135mb patching :-D thought my laptop was dying for a moment thank you :)

    On Demand patching downloads a smaller set of client files and then downloads and patches other files as you need them (IE if you zone into a map you haven't been on before.) The upside is that you download less during the Cryptic Launcher phase of logging in; BUT (and IMO this is a big downside for a lot of players) it means you may encounter more problems (and LONG map transition times) when you're actually in game playing STO.

    Basically, if you have "On Demand Patching" disabled, the launcher will download every file the STO client needs before launching the game, and if you had recently disabled it; that's why you suddenly saw you had a 3787MB download; the client needed to download the rest of the files to your PC all at once.
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