Heroic Games Launcher•6mo ago

Stalker 2 (GOG) gets redownloaded for every update (the entire 150GB)

There were three updates so far and every time, Heroic apparently redownloads the entire game again, making the update take an eternity. At GOG i see the update files, they are several 4GB files, but not 150. I cannot find anything about this issue anywhere here or on the internet

23 Replies

like-gold•6mo ago

depends on how the game is built.. but generally update download size is only something the developers have control over

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

i mean, i guess heroic looks at GOG in this case? where i see a) the fresh install files for the current 1.0.3 version and the update files:

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

whose responsibility would it be that heroic prefers to download and run these instead of the setup files?

complex-teal•6mo ago

the update system in Heroic does diff patches

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

okay so you say that the diff is more or less the entire game? binary diff?

complex-teal•6mo ago

and I see a few files that are bigger than 10GB one is even 30GB

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

huh, not what the offline install files say - where are you seering this?

complex-teal•6mo ago

the progress Heroic displays is a size that's being written to the drive the download size is much less Heroic doesn't use offline installers

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

download bandwith in btop matches the download graph in heoric here

complex-teal•6mo ago

and the patches you see, despite being relatively small, can still trigger rewrites of multiple large files

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

i see, so this is rather an issue with stalker2 in this case

complex-teal•6mo ago

are you sure you are using latest version of Heroic?

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

2.15.2

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

looks an awful lot like it downloading 153 GB

complex-teal•6mo ago

it's downloading each patch before writing files can you share the GOG log well, at least it should

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

where can i see it?

complex-teal•6mo ago

in heroic settings I see the latest patch is ~20 GiB

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

let me grab the log file

complex-teal•6mo ago

that would be nice

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

[V2] INFO: No patch found, falling back to chunk based updates
[V2] INFO: Deleted: 2 New: 0 Changed: 93
[API] INFO: Getting Dependencies repository
[TASK_EXEC] INFO: Attempting to continue the download

[V2] INFO: No patch found, falling back to chunk based updates
[V2] INFO: Deleted: 2 New: 0 Changed: 93
[API] INFO: Getting Dependencies repository
[TASK_EXEC] INFO: Attempting to continue the download

complex-teal•6mo ago

hmm, it's interesting that it didn't find any patches

rival-blackOP•6mo ago

something something ultimate edition?

[V2] INFO: Initialized V2 Download Manager
[V2] INFO: Creating Manifest instance from existing manifest
[V2] INFO: Requested dlcs 1109022028,1536886246,1891718289,1983524879
[V2] INFO: Owned dlcs [{'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Pre-order Bonus', 'id': '1536886246'}, {'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Ultimate Content', 'id': '1109022028'}, {'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Deluxe Content', 'id': '1891718289'}, {'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - OST and Artbook', 'id': '1983524879'}]

[V2] INFO: Initialized V2 Download Manager
[V2] INFO: Creating Manifest instance from existing manifest
[V2] INFO: Requested dlcs 1109022028,1536886246,1891718289,1983524879
[V2] INFO: Owned dlcs [{'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Pre-order Bonus', 'id': '1536886246'}, {'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Ultimate Content', 'id': '1109022028'}, {'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Deluxe Content', 'id': '1891718289'}, {'title': 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - OST and Artbook', 'id': '1983524879'}]

can anything be fixed here? still present for 1.2 patch

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