Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) The latest update, posted about an hour before this post goes up, looked like a few small fixes. However, the game is downloading 37,000+ files onto my machine. Is that happening with everyone or did something go weird and bizarre with my update? EDIT: And those tens of thousands of files are downloading at speeds hitting as low as 1 KB/sec. Sigh, this may take a while. Edited November 12, 2021 by Chichimec.9364 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosen.9387 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Happened to me too 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonboi.1764 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Same, only mine is 47,000. I’m like wtf. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch of Doom.5739 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 So, this is legit? Not some bug within a bug? I know I sound paranoid, but... I'm paranoid. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harak.8397 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 46k here.. at least it's going fast. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 It's taking me forever. Usually updates/patches are fast. Sigh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Witch of Doom.5739 said: So, this is legit? Not some bug within a bug? I know I sound paranoid, but... I'm paranoid. I suspect a bug within a bug myself.The download has been going on for almost 45 minutes now and there are still 21,000+ files to go. The download is stopping/starting and when it is running it is at super slow speeds. My internet connection is fine and everything else is working normally. Only the game download is crawling so slowly. They had to hold off on this update because of hardware problems. It seems the problems may not have been fully fixed. 😞 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presler.2561 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Looks more like a validation and replacing of files to me. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zistenz.1945 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I think it's a forced re-check, the full game itself doesn't redowloading again, just a few hundreds MBs. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YtseJam.9784 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 yeah ~47k files. mine is taking forever too, very slow download speed (150-250kbps) compared to other times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 It's slow because most of the 46.6k files are < 1 KB. 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YtseJam.9784 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 yeah that's what you get when you inefficiently implement to download 1 file at a time 🙂 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 An hour into the download and 10,000+ files still to go. 😞 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I didn't look at how many files were downloading but the update only took a couple of minutes for me, and I was doing other stuff on the computer at the time. My guess is something has gone wrong with the update, but I have no idea what or if there's anything you can do to fix it. But it's definitely not doing that to everyone. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 And almost an hour and a half later I can finally get back ingame. Whew! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Obtena.7952 said: lol ... can we correlate people's age to complaints about taking 'forever' for a 5 minute DL? Actually no as this was not a 5 minute download for me. If it was for you, good for you but it was not that way for everyone. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obtena.7952 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Chichimec.9364 said: Actually no as this was not a 5 minute download for me. If it was for you, good for you but it was not that way for everyone. You seem to be missing the point ... Anet can't ensure that 47K+ files downloads to a computer in a split second to keep people from complaining about 'forever' being a few minutes. I was surprised too ... but yeah, it takes time people, some more than others. Go for a walk, have a sandwich, grab a coffee. Just relax. The world didn't end. Edited November 12, 2021 by Obtena.7952 4 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Obtena.7952 said: You seem to be missing the point ... Anet can't ensure that 47K+ files downloads to your computer in a split second to keep people from complaining about 'forever' being a few minutes. You seem to be missing the point. It may have been a few minutes for you but it was NOT a few minutes for everyone. You are the one talking about five minutes, or a few minutes, or a split second download. I'm talking about almost an hour and a half download. Other large updates have downloaded much faster than that for me and everything else on my end is working fine at normal speed. So I suspect something was happening on Anet's end. Given their recent hardware problem, that is a reasonable thought. 8 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obtena.7952 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 1 minute ago, Chichimec.9364 said: You seem to be missing the point. It may have been a few minutes for you but it was NOT a few minutes for everyone. That's not Anet's fault necessarily, so your point is that it takes different people different times to download content from the internet? Yes ... that's how the internet works. It's expected. Edited November 12, 2021 by Obtena.7952 2 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friday.7864 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Downloading update at 7KB/s on a 200Mbps connection is not Anet's fault? Who else will you blame? Obama? They really oughta optimize this... 2 2 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch of Doom.5739 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I started the download, went and ran errands. By magic, when I came home it was all done. Plus now I have pizza. 3 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obtena.7952 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Friday.7864 said: Downloading update at 7KB/s on a 200Mbps connection is not Anet's fault? Exactly, you don't know where the bottleneck is happening. Edited November 12, 2021 by Obtena.7952 2 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythical.6315 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 59 minutes ago, Chichimec.9364 said: I suspect a bug within a bug myself. I personally suspect that it’s a bug that’s within a bug that’s also within a bug. Bugception. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parthenos Polias.5683 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Same here. Downloading is at 10Ko/Sec for 47K+Files and 100Mo, I can wait 10 000 sec more than 2 hours. ??? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Obtena.7952 said: That's not Anet's fault necessarily, so your point is that it takes different people different times to download content from the internet? Yes ... that's how the internet works. It's expected. Again, you seem to be missing the point. You are the one who wanted to "correlate people's age to complaints about taking 'forever' for a 5 minute DL?" I pointed out in return that it was not a five minute download for everyone. That was the original point of this exchange, not who's fault it was. 3 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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