After that is done, it gets recompressed if necessary, again takes time. Then the patched file gets a hashcheck to verify nothing went wrong, takes time depending on file size. And at last, the patched file gets moved into the game folder overwriting the outdated file. This way the download size of patches massively decreased.
You no longer need to download a 2GB file just because 10MB in it changed, instead you just download the changes and the Steam client applies that to the file. Depending on what software can interfer with Steam it may prolong the procedure.
Addtionally some games, like ARK Survival Evolved or Payday 2 is notoriously known for having a slow patch process due to its file structure. Last edited by Cathulhu ; 24 May, am. I Want My Pizza! View Profile View Posts. Originally posted by Cathulhu :. Last edited by I Want My Pizza! Millz View Profile View Posts. Originally posted by Millz :. I lost my HD and am reinstalling games- here's the thing: file xfer rate from Steam- Disk drive: 3T with 2T free. Games download fast, fast, fast Then the installation of the content, even NEW content- not updates- takes far longer than the download did.
For the purposes of file verification, both methods are equally valid. Though the algorithm is different, both will return a random string with a set length, although MD5 hashes are shorter than any of the SHA hashes. Those steps are beyond the scope of this tutorial. Checking the hash on downloaded files provides two different assurances that are both worthwhile.
Both of these cases are important since, if either were to happen, the download you have could be harmful to your machine or may not work at all. Most Linux distributions have command line tools for each hashing algorithm. So to hash with MD5, the program name is md5sum. To hash with SHA , the command is shasum. Execute the md5sum command and pass it the path to the file you want to hash:. Since any modification to the file will result in a completely different checksum, to save time just check the first few characters and the last few are the same as the source instead of every character.
For example, if you wanted to quickly verify that the checksum for 'mini. The most common SHA hashing commands are sha1sum and shasum. Execute the sha1sum command by passing it the path to the file:. Unlike Linux, macOS only has two hashing commands md5 and shasum , instead of one for every algorithm. But we can still perform all the checks we need with just these tools. Despite different applications and different operating systems, the resulting hash from these tools is the same on every OS.
Since md5 is a standalone algorithm, it is its own command on macOS. Execute the md5 command, passing it the path to the file you want to check:. As you can see, the output on macOS is not exactly the same as the output on Linux, but it still shows the filename and 32 character random string. Compare the characters with the original MD5 checksum and ensure that they match. When running it, you provide the type of SHA check you want as an argument.
If you needed to perform a SHA check, the command would be shasum -a mini. I just ran cmd line for par2 and verifying and repair was done within a few minutes. I tested a small movie "bachelorette. Target: "bachelorette. Now I ran Quickpar and it renamed all the files and indicated "Repair not needed". That process took about 10 seconds. I hope you can shed some light on this. To verify this time it took no time at all however it just said files are missing.
Now i'm super confused. Another question.. Do PAR files download automatically? I noticed with another movie that there were PAR files but they did not download. These same PAR files show up in the "scratch" list in Newsbin pro. The support for obfuscated names has an unfortunate side-effect for these kind of NZBs, mostly on slow systems. I'm looking at a solution. You'll see that the NZB consists of one large and one or more small sets.
As a work-around you can remove the small sets from the file list, before you start downloading the NZB content. Look for the smallest set and remove those files.
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