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104 Gig Patch?

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That’s like Theseus bringing in his ship for maintenance and when he returns to get it, the ship mechanic saying “so I have good news and bad news…”…

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Yote.zip@pawb.social
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Probably because they pack a ton of files into a handful of compressed archives, which means the full archive needs to redownload when a single file is changed. Does Steam not have a delta patching system to handle this? They already compress downloads so it’s not like a delta patch framework would cost extra CPU in comparison, and the bandwidth savings would be immense. Seems like low hanging fruit to me?

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They do have delta patching, but it’s pretty useless for some types of compressed archives. A single changed file could completely change the remainder of the archive’s contents due to different data in the compression buffer.

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