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Progress discrepancy in downloads screen #2635

Open stevethepocket opened 11 years ago

stevethepocket commented 11 years ago

I couldn't come up with a better way to describe it in one sentence. What happened was I renamed my /steamapps/common/Left 4 Dead Beta folder "Left 4 Dead" in the hopes that having most of the same files would speed the downloading of the current version along. It seems to have figured out that it only has to download some of the files, but the way it's being reported by the downloads screen is... well... just see for yourself.

downloading left 4 dead

It's showing how much I've downloaded so far, not counting the existing files... out of the total size of the game. The progress bar at the bottom is based on this figure as well. However, the estimated time remaining makes it clear that it's only downloading the couple hundred megs or so that I was still missing.

This is the first time I've started downloading a "fresh" copy over top of a "stale" one, so I don't know if this is common behavior or just some weird bug I'm experiencing. Here's my system info, if it helps:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 2400 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Unsupported
    SSE42:  Unsupported

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.2.0-29-generic
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11103000
    X Window Manager:  KWin
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-04-16

Video Card:
    Driver:  ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

    Driver Version:  3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x1002
    DeviceID:  0x944a
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.77"  (23.98" diag)
                                            53.1cm x 29.9cm  (60.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC1200

Memory:
    RAM:  3954 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  487728 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  385470 Mb
johndrinkwater commented 11 years ago

It looks to be downloading all the files again, the small progress bar under play button does appear to be in error.

stevethepocket commented 10 years ago

This is still happening in the latest build, post-revamp:

progress bars

@johndrinkwater No, it only downloads the missing files; in this case it finished after downloading only about 150 megs and then changed to "1.2 GB / 1.2 GB".

stevethepocket commented 10 years ago

Caught this in the Windows client as well, so it's a platform-independent issue:

steam derping its download meter yet again

This was after moving my files to another location, uninstalling, putting them back, and trying to reinstall. It stopped after downloading only about 250 megs.

Tele42 commented 8 years ago

The progress bar under the play button is the progress of applying an update to the local files, while the progress bar at the bottom is the amount downloaded from the steam cdn. The difference is especially obvious with PAYDAY 2 updates, where depending on your internet connection, a gig or so download can complete much faster than the patching process of 25+ GB that the game uses.