targetbsp Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 My wider concern with this is that I think Steam works in a similar manner. It's more than possible that Steam would be having similar issues if we were using them, because games simply don't have 80,000 files in them these days. It's a result of us using a woefully inadequate game engine which we don't have the source code for, and it'll only get worse when we add in all of the alien sprites for beta. I don't have anything close to Xenonauts 80,000 but Steam can verify a game I have with 14,000 files (Ceville) in under 10 seconds on a normal (non-SSD) hard disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Mess Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Also steam does the whole checking of files vis updating on their servers to build up a list of files to update and push to users. Rather than verify the install for each update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarRat Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Desura is working better than it used to. My last two updates went flawlessly. It's slow that is true, but at least I was able to update on the first try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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