Trickle?

[PipeMasterHL]

Since the latest update, I have had all of my games "reinstalled" and now the monitor screen looks like this all the time (see attached jpeg). Will it ever stop updating?

 

[Chris D]

By uninstalling all the games, you're having to download them again.
Why did you uninstall in the first place?

Leave it on overnight and it'll sort itself out.

 

[Xtasy0]

Originally posted by Chris_D
By uninstalling all the games, you're having to download them again.
Why did you uninstall in the first place?

Leave it on overnight and it'll sort itself out.

it was a glitch in the update, if you got the recalled update, then went back to the older version it uh deleted your games (although my cache files are still there but steam insists it needs to download all the games i fully had already).

its weird.

 

[PipeMasterHL]

I didn't uninstall them, it happened when I got the latest update. I have no idea why they were uninstalled. All I know is , that when the update got done, all my games were "green" like they weren't installed. I closed and reopened steam and one of them would become "installed" and I kept closing and opening untill they were all "not green" anymore. And then each game I tried to play had to update. And now it is updating in the background. I will leave Steam running until it's finished.

I really didn't uninstall the games, it just happened. The last thing I would do is uninstall them. Weird!

edit: Xtasy0, posted while I was typing. Yeah thats what it did, my cache is all intact and un the right place, but steam is still downloading everything again. :shrug: I don't know why they aren't calling this current version "Beta 2.0" because it's been far from ready for release.

Is the newly downloaded stuff overwriting the cache that I already have, or is it making new files? I don't like to have wasted HDD space. Duplicates would suck.

 

[Chris D]

I haven't had that problem. Odd.

 

[Epsi]

Yeh, it's overwriting the cache again.

My guess is when they "Fixed handling of cache fingerprint mismatch on reconnect" they somehow stuffed up the compatibility between the old system and the new system, so Steam thought the cache was junk, so it starts downloading again. Valve realise they've screwed up (the problem probably didn't occur internally because they probably went incrementally from the old to new and broke it without realising) and recall the update. The cache is now broken from the updating Steam did with the new version, and has to be re-created.

Ugh, pretty nasty bug.

 

[ilh]

I had this problem, even when I did get DoD fully again it said it was still updating. Unistall Steam and delete the reg keys, then reinstall Steam again, only a very quite update to Steam (don't know why it was very quick, it was done in 30 secs) and the updates to the games. This way for me was completed in under 1/2 hour.

 

[PipeMasterHL]

I thought about uninstalling/reinstalling, but I didn't want to have to copy my third party games and hope they would work again. So i just left steam on overnight and then when I checcked it in the morning, it had ran into a bug/error during the nught and stopped updating. So I left it on today while I was at work, and now everything is working just fine. But it would have been alot faster to just copy my steamapps folder into a new install of steam. Oh well, I just hope valve gets all the bugs out of steam ASAP.

This is more of a beta test than the official beta tests. IMHO

 

[nutsak]

... that's pretty shitty....If you like, you can give me your internet and you can have my dial up.

 

[]SK[]

After the recall I suffered with constant downloading and freezing. The only true way is to reinstall. After that it worked fine again.

 

[PipeMasterHL]

"The only true way is to reinstall"

I wouldnt say thats the only true way (a faster way maybe ;-) ). I didn't have to reinstall Steam. It just took a long time to get the updates.