Steam & You. I can has beta nao?

[Cortlendt]

Allright, I have a question about downloading beta thru steam (yeah, dont have it still).

So, it shows in my games tab and I install it. Install process is rather fast and downloads like ~300mb.

Now I launch it. The game starts updating. The update process is rather slow and I guess it downloads the rest of 2.3gb.

My internet connections goes down at 5% of updating. Steam stops the update and when the connection is online again it Steam resets the update at 0%.

Question is - Steam is unable to restart at the last downloaded content? Do I have to have a connection online from start to end of the update? My download speed is not that fast and I have to turn off the PC at some point.

Tbh, I lost my faith in Steam.

[Mazuo]

If you pause an update, it remembers where you left off. If your connection just drops, I don't think that's guaranteed.

[Mac_Bug]

You may not be able to resume downloading a piece of a file, but files you have finished downloading should contribute to your percentage

[Cortlendt]

Thanks, whats the largest file in beta anyway? Wanna do the math :)

[Aerundel]

There's a difference between "Downloading" the game and "Updating" it. If you're downloading the game, the percentage is based on the entire size of the game. It downloads each file separately and places it on your hard drive (the same files that would be placed on your drive from a retail disc). So if you drop your connection, it'll just continue at whatever percentage it was at.

The updating percentage is based on size of the files that still need to be downloaded. So most likely it will reset the percentage each time you lose your connection because it simply recalculates how many files it still needs to download, then treats it as a new update.

All I can say is that Steam is only as good as your internet connection. I've never experienced an entire game being lost due to a connection drop, and I would sooner lay the blame (and loss of faith) on the ISP, not the Steam client. This beta isn't even that large (2.3GB, with the largest file being about 300MB). Most games these days need 6, 8, 10 gigs of space, which I've found Steam to download perfectly well.

[Cortlendt]

Great info, thanks, I think I got all of my answers, can close this thread now.