- SIZE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS BOOK DOWNLOAD UPDATE
- SIZE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS BOOK DOWNLOAD PATCH
The download from Steam or is roughly 2 years out of date - There have been two expansions and many updates since those files were created. The initial download is roughly 17 gig-a-bytes in size. You will frequently see "Applying forward iterations" displayed while this is happening.Īgain this requires reading the existing files, applying the update, and writing them back out again.
This means that the existing files must be read back into memory and the merge accomplished.
SIZE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS BOOK DOWNLOAD PATCH
If this is a patch operation, the decoded files must be merged with the existing dat files.
However, since these are large files, and the WRITE operation takes much longer than a read, it takes a significantly longer time than the initial download. If this is the initial download theses files are then simply written back to your disk drive. Next the files are "decompressed and decoded" - for this they are read back into your computer's main memory from your disk drive, so the speed of the decompressing and decoding is dependent upon the speed of your CPU AND the speed of your disk drive. It is actually (usually) the fastest part of the operation. The files are first downloaded to a temp area - this speed of this part is dependent upon the speed of your disk drive as well as your internet connection. The "explanation" displayed on your screen is only a summary of what is happening.
SIZE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS BOOK DOWNLOAD UPDATE
The slowness is not related to the speed of your internet connection, but to the speed of your computer and disk drives.īoth the download and update processes are multi-step processes.
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