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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I hate dinner and watched a movie. All new MMOs have an epic patch on the first day. And you are about a week or so late. :/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Why couldnt this be added in the disk? I mean really? I'm not trying to bash on the game cuz It looks really fun but ive been downloading it for the past 2 hours and its only at 46.8% done! I'm going crazy lol. Im trying not to use the computer as much cuz it goes faster if I just leave it. BTW its 9:45 p.m. right now and Im so ****in bored! :O I tried everything to pass the time... even tried reading a book...it waz a FAIL :P ...

    Anyways I was just wondering if this could of been added to a second disk or something cuz I thought about clicking the "X" at 30%, but I kept going. and people with older computers or bad connections most likely will just say "**** it" and delete it. Did you guys plan this so it would be faster? or did u not see this comeing?

    W00T 50%!!!!!!!!! :D

    BTW if anyone is already done/still waiting on the 10GB patch tell me how you passed the time plz! lol im hella bored!!!

    I installed it on my other computer using the DVD. I had a patch that was about 1 GB in size. I don't know what you mean by 10GB...

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If you got the game on disc. I don't think you should have to download the whole 10gb
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Why couldnt this be added in the disk? I mean really? I'm not trying to bash on the game cuz It looks really fun but ive been downloading it for the past 2 hours and its only at 46.8% done! I'm going crazy lol. Im trying not to use the computer as much cuz it goes faster if I just leave it. BTW its 9:45 p.m. right now and Im so ****in bored! :O I tried everything to pass the time... even tried reading a book...it waz a FAIL :P ...

    Anyways I was just wondering if this could of been added to a second disk or something cuz I thought about clicking the "X" at 30%, but I kept going. and people with older computers or bad connections most likely will just say "**** it" and delete it. Did you guys plan this so it would be faster? or did u not see this comeing?

    W00T 50%!!!!!!!!! :D

    BTW if anyone is already done/still waiting on the 10GB patch tell me how you passed the time plz! lol im hella bored!!!

    so much was changed in the last month before the discs werent printed that it cant be helped

    this is why some games ship new versions of old expantions, so that you can get fully updated versions(aniversery additions usualy have this)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I turned the downloader on the night before launch and went to bed. When I woke up, I had a tiny, tiny little nothingth of a patch, then was ready to play.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    So your saying there is a new copy of the game with the 10 GB patch on it?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    my patch lasted all of 4 minutes lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Why couldnt this be added in the disk?
    You using Steam? This sounds like their updater bug. You can avoid using Steam to update the game once you have it installed.

    If that is what you are talking about.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Im like really confused right now lol....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I don't think the patch is 10gb unless your downloading an entirely new version of the game. Usually it's only a few hundred Mb to 1 Gb but it's also simultaneously reading the 10Gb worth of game files already installed and installing the updated files.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    are you using steam?

    they have an issue where the updater tries to download the entire game every time

    launch stol from its own exe and the launcher will download only the patches, about 1gb
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Why couldnt this be added in the disk? I mean really? I'm not trying to bash on the game cuz It looks really fun but ive been downloading it for the past 2 hours and its only at 46.8% done! I'm going crazy lol. Im trying not to use the computer as much cuz it goes faster if I just leave it. BTW its 9:45 p.m. right now and Im so ****in bored! :O I tried everything to pass the time... even tried reading a book...it waz a FAIL :P ...

    Anyways I was just wondering if this could of been added to a second disk or something cuz I thought about clicking the "X" at 30%, but I kept going. and people with older computers or bad connections most likely will just say "**** it" and delete it. Did you guys plan this so it would be faster? or did u not see this comeing?

    W00T 50%!!!!!!!!! :D

    BTW if anyone is already done/still waiting on the 10GB patch tell me how you passed the time plz! lol im hella bored!!!

    The entire STO program folder on my computer is only 8 gigs in size. So there is no way you are downloading a 10 gig patch. Maybe you're accidentally downloading the entire game client, not just a patch. It still should not be 10 gigs though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    i fully downloaded the game from steam and that was less than 10GB, whats this about a 10GB patch?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Lawsie wrote: »
    i fully downloaded the game from steam and that was less than 10GB, whats this about a 10GB patch?

    There is no 10GB patch. Someone's game updater is confused and downloading the game client again. It's happened before on Steam. Which it is why it is best to just download with Steam and let the game client do its own updating.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Looks like your install got fubared, and it's patching it all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well I took a screen shot of what it says...
    http://s865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/xphatknightx/?action=view&current=Startrek.jpg

    click the link to see the pic of what Im seeing
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    bump.... I really want to find out whats going on...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    DrArcanus wrote: »
    The entire STO program folder on my computer is only 8 gigs in size. So there is no way you are downloading a 10 gig patch. Maybe you're accidentally downloading the entire game client, not just a patch. It still should not be 10 gigs though.


    It's the way the launcher works with cryptics file system. It uses compressed files.

    That's why there's a difference when you download a patch between "patched" and "received". You'll receive less than what the patcher says it needs to update.

    I think that's right anyway, was just on my way to bed. It's along those lines though. If cryptic were to uncompress their files the sto folder would be over 10 gigs.


    Anyway, over time this issue has popped up in various forms. Before launch it was more attributed to files going wonky, if the patcher sees any discrepancy in any 1 file (say a kliingon head file in the texture 2 folder) in any of the compressed folders, it will download that whole folder again (the whole texture 2 folder).

    It was most cried about though when there was a steam snafu, which I can't help with but there's tons of discussion/help for it around the forums.

    I use a december installation file I downloaded from fileplanet back during the end of CB and it works just fine, downloads just barely over a gig I believe when I reinstall as a single patch. I would think if your installing from disc and it's wanting a 10gig patch something in the fileset has already gone wonky
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    When the Holodeck is down, you are unable to patch the game so you are most likely patching Champions or the upcoming Star Trek Public Test Realm. (which is why it is so big)

    When the shard comes back up - you will be patching to ST.0.20100208b.9 which should be nowhere near 10gigs.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well I pressed the cancled the patch and im reinstailling the disk... And for somereason its takeing even longer to install... so hopefully this is just one big bug.
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