Patch Size?

Ashigaru

Am i seeing this right? 12 gigs and some change? Do we think they could have pushed the patches down in pieces over time so it wasnt so huge?

dawnhawk

20-25gbs - as per patch notes. The patches come down incrementally so that information that has dependency requirements have their dependencies in place before they cause other issues.

As for over time...well 1) no background downloader, 2) it looks like there may have been changes even since the last PTS push - so any pre-downloaded content may have ended up being yanked as well.

McDoogs

I'm almost done with the first ~12.5GB chunk, but the patcher only says I'm at 6%

McDoogs

nvm..It was just applying the patch.

Ixtyr

Yeah, that's accurate. These changes are huge. It was about the same for the PTS.

The patcher will only state that you're at 6% or so because of the way that ZOS's patcher recognizes progress. It starts with Downloading, then moves to Applying, and then it verifies the patch. That last step is the bulk of the percentage, for some odd reason.

dawnhawk

@McDoogs - the % takes into account download and installation. Think of it as a "percentage of how much is in place and verified and working". So download and verification takes "a long time" vs installation (unpacking and shunting files into the folders where they need to be). So you will get a HUGE jump once each download phase is done.

ex. All numbers completely arbitrary and off my head for illustration purposes only!!

Downloads 50% of code (takes an hour) - bar moves to 25% done
Installs 50% of code (takes 5 minutes) bar moves to 50% done
Downloads rest of code (takes another hour) - bar moves to 75% done
Installs rest of code (takes 4 minutes) - bar moves to 99% done
System does check (takes 2 minutes) bar moves to 100% done.