Why does this game take so long to update?
I updated warframe today, 7+ gig patch took 5-6 minutes This game? every patch is 1-2 hours right now its been "preparing" update for 10 minutes and hasn't yet deemed it appropriate to start downloa...
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I have the same issue. The latest update has already taken more than 2 hours and is still sitting at 91% after which it will verify files probably and take another half an hour or more.
I update other games too, mostly from Steam and they take max 10 minutes to finish, no matter the size of the update, as it downloads quickly.
- I have an i7 Processor, 16GB DDR4 RAM and only a chrome window open. I had left the PC idle just for the update, with chrome closed.
- I have a 2TB SSD with which has space. The drive with games is 90% full though.
- Internet connection is 200 MBps
EA_Leeuw
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Community ManagerHey @NooBoY1000,
Clearing the cache of the EA app usually fixes these things. Does that help?
Its the EA App.
Since I had to switch from Origin to the EA App, download speeds have been abysmal. It takes ages to prepare it. Takes ages to verify. Takes ages to download it. Takes ages to apply and finalise. Small downloads that might've taken a few minutes on Origin take well over two hours on the EA App, and unlike Origin, if you pause it, it has a tendency to start the whole thing over again. It also interferes with general browsing, making it choppy, which Origin did not do.
Clearing cache or whatever on it also did not rectify this issue.
- @Moab23
I moved to the EA App fairly recently and I thought the same, the first download after switching definitely took longer than my Origin downloads.
Having said that today's download worked perfectly so there is obviously something else going on which causes the slow download issue, or maybe the EA App is just intermittingly slow at times dependant on the levels of traffic.@RayD_O1 It was slightly quicker today, but its still fluctuating its DL speeds far too much. Running between several MB/s to sometimes 200kb/s. It finished downloading about 25 minutes ago, and its been 'applying' it ever since. Something else I notice is that whenever its doing this, a huge chunk of HD space disappears. I mean massive beyond the size of the DL. It returns when its done, but its disconcerting why its doing that when it didn't do that with Origin. Its almost like you're reinstalling the entire game sometimes.
EDIT: It has only just got to the verifying stage 5 minutes ago, and its only at 3%. This is so irritating. It'd honestly make me reconsider buying anything over the EA App in future, because having to download an entire game like this would be an utter nightmare.
How is warframe nowadays anyway? I stopped around (trophy) update 17 but even then it had drastically changed about 4 times - I just couldn't keep up
