Steam - Excessively Large Updates After Friends and Family Patch

[Aikouka]

So, I updated Steam earlier tonight with this new Friends and Family thing, and a few games said they needed to update. Eh, not a big deal, so I let them start. I came back a little bit later, and this is what I saw...

63.5 GB USED

In my experience, this is insane for Steam game updates. 20+ updates isn't terribly common, but even when that occurs, the updates are usually only a few GB at the most, but are usually not even 1GB. In this case, it seems like some of the updates are around 50-100% of the full game size. For example, Max Payne wants to download 30GB! Although, I took a look at my Max Payne 3 folder, and it's completely empty. I switched over to a 3TB HDD for Steam games, but my 2TB drive still has everything on it. I'm going to try copying Max Payne 3 back over to see if that fixes the problem.

 

[irishScott]

Solution: Play all of your games before you buy more.

 

[Gloomy]

Sorry, I live in a first world country so I have no experience with landline data caps.

 

[Aikouka]

Solution: Play all of your games before you buy more.

Why uninstall games when you can buy a bigger hard drive?

 

[greenhawk]

63.5 GB USED

There goes over 20% of my data cap in less than a few hours.

options are

-pause downloads for games you are not currently playing until the end of the month / period
- disable update on all games you do not intend on playing any time soon
- change to a larger plan
- change to a ISP that does not count steam data (ie: they have a steam server locally). will have to limit steam to that server though for updates

 

[JimmiG]

What is a data cap?

 

[Aikouka]

-pause downloads for games you are not currently playing until the end of the month / period

I did pause them all. However, I'm actually a bit baffled as to why they're even updating anyway. There's nothing for them to update! Not to mention, some of these downloads are about the size of the full game! Max Payne 3 has actually had the whole "Update Required" thing for months, but it would never update, and then after the Steam Client update today, I got about 12 items saying that.

Ultimately, I didn't know if anyone else saw the same thing.

- change to a larger plan

Comcast doesn't offer anything over 300GB a month. Well, actually... if you go over, you pay $10 for an additional 50GB. :\

change to a ISP that does not count steam data (ie: they have a steam server locally). will have to limit steam to that server though for updates

It looks like Comcast has two steam Servers (Seattle and Washington D.C.), but some quick Google searches show people saying that the data counts regardless of whether you use a Comcast server or not.

 

[ViRGE]

Weird, it did that to me too. It wanted to re-download 2 games and the Source SDK bases for 2006 and 2007.

 

[lamedude]

Almost 15PB so probably.

 

[CPA]

Sorry, I live in a first world country so I have no experience with landline data caps.

this

 

[jacktesterson]

Rogers in Canada, one of the richest companies in Canada, has hard Data Caps on there Internet across canada.

Its one of the major reasons I refuse to buy any Rogers products.

I am on Bell Fiber Op - 80Mbit Down, 30Mbit Up, and I have 0 Caps. They will always have my business due to this.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Sorry, I live in a first world country so I have no experience with landline data caps.

You will some day, you will. Cable companies will do it to hamper streaming video service competition

 

[Imaginer]

You will some day, you will. Cable companies will do it to hamper streaming video service competition

I am sure many would agree that cable companies and the whole cable TV model needs to retire like mainstream saddle and wagon makers upon the invention and proliferation of the automobile.

 

[cbrunny]

Data caps are the stupidest money grabs ISP's can include. I refuse to purchase my internet service from an ISP that has one.

In Ontario, it's pretty bad situation, since the major players are the ones that own all the infrastructure that delivers internet. Through CRTC/Government intervention alone, 3rd party providers are allowed to lease bandwidth from the major players and provide data-cap free options.

So, 3rd party for me! Works out well. I get about 90mbits/sec at peak, though I'm only rated for 35.

 

[imaheadcase]

Data caps? I would never use a ISP with data caps. I do around 1TB a month so data caps out of the question

 

[manimal]

Steam has changed how many of the old games save games so they force you to download a patch. I have a 400 game steam library and I had to update a bunch of games that locked up steam for like 20 minutes each.

 

[mmntech]

Rogers in Canada, one of the richest companies in Canada, has hard Data Caps on there Internet across canada.

Its one of the major reasons I refuse to buy any Rogers products.

I am on Bell Fiber Op - 80Mbit Down, 30Mbit Up, and I have 0 Caps. They will always have my business due to this.

Since when does Hell have no data caps? They were less than Rogers back when I looked. I have an indie ISP. Only 15mbps but I have no cap.

 

[Rhezuss]

Since when does Hell have no data caps? They were less than Rogers back when I looked. I have an indie ISP. Only 15mbps but I have no cap.

With their "new" Fibe stuff some packages have no-limit.

 

[mmntech]

With their "new" Fibe stuff some packages have no-limit.

Probably costs an arm and a leg though.

 

[biostud]

Almost 15PB so probably.

Guinea Bisau: 260.8Mb

 

[jacktesterson]

Since when does Hell have no data caps? They were less than Rogers back when I looked. I have an indie ISP. Only 15mbps but I have no cap.

No Caps here. (In Atlantic Canada). Never has been ever, at least here, for any Bell internet product. Even the slowest 1.5Mbit DSL lines are unlimited. Been with Bell for 5-6 years now, Parents have been for 10+.


http://productsandservice.bellalian...0695&product_id=3260695&curbody=21&section=21

Also - first line under "excessive use of bandwidth"

https://productsandservice.bellaliant.net/PS/en/common/termsconditions_fibreop.jsp


I download and stream a ton and never have any issues.

 

[cbrunny]

No Caps here. (In Atlantic Canada). Never has been ever. Been with Bell for 5-6 years now, Parents have been for 10+.

http://productsandservice.bellalian...0695&product_id=3260695&curbody=21&section=21

$87/mo. + tax

 

[cbrunny]

LOL Bell's infrastructure in my area can accommodate this:

5 mbps down, 800 kbps up, 95 GB cap, $45/mo + modem rental + tax.

Rogers can accommodate this:

35 mbps down, 3 mbps up, 120 GB cap, $68/mo + modem rental + tax.

What I actually get with Distributel (on the Rogers infrastructure):

35 mbps down, 3 mbps up, no cap, $60/mo + modem rental + tax.

 

[jacktesterson]

$87/mo. + tax

Not in a package.

http://www.bellaliant.net/bundles/fibreop-bundles

I have the middle one and I pay $130/mth for it.

Doesn't matter, just stating. DVR and Home Phone with pretty much all the channels I watch.

 

[biostud]

50/5 no cap @ $55, so I'm good.