Impulse update speed

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Log in to Steam.  New Civ V update. Cool.

Steam thinks about it for 2-3 secs then starts downloading.

Enjoy hours of new gameplay.

 

Log in to Impulse.  New Elemental update. Cool.

Impulse thinks about it for 5-10 mins then starts downloading.

Lose interest and start surfing on the web.

 

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Hopefully Gamestop can solve this problem.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Lose interest and start surfing on the web.
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hehe

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top



 

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Hopefully Gamestop can solve this problem.


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don't hold your breath, I expect someone to eat their socks when Gamestop does diddly squat

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

It seems to be related to it going through and looking for files to update and building a download list, but it does seem to take a very long time before it starts downloading for some reason.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It may also be to do with its interaction with Windows 7 (maybe).

Best regards,
Steven.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Nope, same thing with Vista

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Was stuck or verify for quite a while

paused download and restarted impulse and Elemental patch then finished quickly after

played 1.2 last night

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm not the only one with this issue? Great. I mean...

Impulse is slow to start and after it has started, it takes ages to connect (dunno where, Impulse servers?) and downloading something takes ages. Calculating download size..., come back five minutes later, still the same issue. I reinstalled EWOM some time ago and that DL size-calculation took 15+ minutes.

And Impulse seems to be using a lot of system resources (CPU at least).

Browsing stuff on Impulse isn't fast either... (Steam is equally bad for browsing stuff though)

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting ozo, reply 7
I'm not the only one with this issue? Great. I mean...

Impulse is slow to start and after it has started, it takes ages to connect (dunno where, Impulse servers?) and downloading something takes ages. Calculating download size..., come back five minutes later, still the same issue. I reinstalled EWOM some time ago and that DL size-calculation took 15+ minutes.

And Impulse seems to be using a lot of system resources (CPU at least).

Browsing stuff on Impulse isn't fast either... (Steam is equally bad for browsing stuff though)
End of ozo's quote

 

Well, atleast you got another reason to upgrade to a new CPU architecture besides games :P

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

The update speed in the verifying step has to do with the number of files a game has.  We do differential patches and check each and every file in the game directory and compare that against the file list for the new version.  Based on what's different, that's what you download.

Games with a lot of files will take longer in this phase of updating.