Why is the update so slow?

So I had to update crossfire today, yes I played after a long time and the update was really slow.

I remember that it was slow like that before too.

My question is why is it so slow to update crossfire? the update is only like 5 or max 10 mb but never more but it takes like 15 minutes to update it. I can download 14 GB in less then 8 hours.

I had to download 14GB when I got MW3 in Steam and it finished in 8 hours, so why is it so slow to download like 5 mb in crossfire? And what the f* is the game doing with the downloaded files? I see that the bar is full and everything is downloaded but I have to wait another 5 minutes for the game to manage the files.

There are many games and it is always really fast to update them.

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  • So I had to update crossfire today, yes I played after a long time and the update was really slow.

    I remember that it was slow like that before too.

    My question is why is it so slow to update crossfire? the update is only like 5 or max 10 mb but never more but it takes like 15 minutes to update it. I can download 14 GB in less then 8 hours.

    I had to download 14GB when I got MW3 in Steam and it finished in 8 hours, so why is it so slow to download like 5 mb in crossfire? And what the f* is the game doing with the downloaded files? I see that the bar is full and everything is downloaded but I have to wait another 5 minutes for the game to manage the files.

    There are many games and it is always really fast to update them.

    No one cares about Mw3 and it took me 5mins to patch. It's either your internet or the servers are busy patching 10k+ players at the same time.
  • When it starts downloading the new content, it takes at least 3 minutes for me. The patching part is a whole new story, takes about 10-15 minutes -_-"
  • SexyPollo wrote: »
    No one cares about Mw3 and it took me 5mins to patch. It's either your internet or the servers are busy patching 100k+ players at the same time.


    ikr who cares about MW3 xD


    But ya pollo is right, if allot of people are downloading files from the same server it slower.

    It's like;

    Your uploading 1 file of 10 mb and your upload speed is 1 mb so that will be the max download speed of 1 person
    But your uploading it to 5 different people so your upload speed will be divided over 5 peeps
    That will result in 200kb/s per person.

    So ya, now think how that works for z8...
    1000 peeps at the same time downloading a file....



    So ya what can you do, wait 6 hours till the traffic has lowered and than patch.
    Or just patch it and come back a hour or 2 laters.
  • Good thing im in high skoo now nd get home faster than all these middle skoo kids before they can use up the bandwidth
  • 100k Players downloading at once, slight exaggeration lol

    it didn't take me long to update.
  • I think it is your connection with your internet. When I updated the game today, it took my like 30 seconds to update.
  • O_H_H_H wrote: »
    100k Players downloading at once, slight exaggeration lol

    it didn't take me long to update.

    Meant to say 10k :( I forget to edit it now that I think about it...
  • Well ******bag, if you have no clue then get the f*ck off here because you are not helping, just trolling.
    SexyPollo wrote: »
    No one cares about Mw3

    You say no one cares about MW3 but it is still one of the most played online games. And it was just an example, I download other games like Left 4 Dead 2 or Team Fortress 2 which are over 10GB at the same speed.
    SexyPollo wrote: »
    It's either your internet or the servers are busy patching 10k+ players at the same time.

    I live in Germany and in Germany we have fast internet, Download is 16mbits abd upload like 1.5mbits. I can download 14 gb in one day.

    The patch was only like 5mb or less, there is no way it was my connection. The second file was only 28kb or something like that.

    The server is patching 10k+ players at the same time? Ohh that's cute. Do you know how many people are downloading from the Steam servers at the same time? Millions! And they do not only download small 5 mb patches, they download like 10 GB all the time.
    SexyPollo wrote: »
    and it took me 5mins to patch.

    Prove it.

    TheDotKom wrote: »
    When it starts downloading the new content, it takes at least 3 minutes for me. The patching part is a whole new story, takes about 10-15 minutes -_-"

    That's exactly my point. First we have to wait forever for it to start the download and once it is finished we have to wait for it to patch it.

    ikr who cares about MW3 xD


    But ya pollo is right, if allot of people are downloading files from the same server it slower.

    It's like;

    Your uploading 1 file of 10 mb and your upload speed is 1 mb so that will be the max download speed of 1 person
    But your uploading it to 5 different people so your upload speed will be divided over 5 peeps
    That will result in 200kb/s per person.

    So ya, now think how that works for z8...
    1000 peeps at the same time downloading a file....



    So ya what can you do, wait 6 hours till the traffic has lowered and than patch.
    Or just patch it and come back a hour or 2 laters.

    As I said above, the steam servers have to handle even more then z8 does, and they do it with full speed. Or look at the rapidshare and megaupload servers, you can download with great speed from them too.

    and beside the download speed there is also the install time.

    CF_OooO wrote: »
    Don't update it , you will get shock :)

    Yea well I wish I could.

    O_H_H_H wrote: »
    100k Players downloading at once, slight exaggeration lol

    it didn't take me long to update.

    Wow you guys must be really stupid. Stop repeating the same sh*t all over again. If you look up you will see other members say the same thing.

    abel95 wrote: »
    I think it is your connection with your internet. When I updated the game today, it took my like 30 seconds to update.

    If it's really my connection, then how comes I download 14GB in less then a day?

  • You say no one cares about MW3 but it is still one of the most played online games.

    Just a tip here, no one does.



    I live in Germany and in Germany we have fast internet, Download is 16mbits abd upload like 1.5mbits. I can download 14 gb in one day.

    UK and NA servers? O.o


    Prove it.

    Mine did it in less than 5 mins as well.


    As I said above, the steam servers have to handle even more then z8 does, and they do it with full speed. Or look at the rapidshare and megaupload servers, you can download with great speed from them too.

    and beside the download speed there is also the install time.

    Rapid and Mega have dedicated servers to dl, as do Steam. Cf aren't going to dish out on super fast dl servers just for an occasional patch.

    If it's really my connection, then how comes I download 14GB in less then a day?

    Because Its CF and read one above.

    Answers in quotes
  • SexyPollo wrote: »
    No one cares about Mw3.

    QFT.

    This is the only post for which this thread is worth something.

    /Thread
  • BriRon wrote: »
    Answers in quotes

    First off all learn how to quote

    DspgR.png
    BriRon wrote: »
    Just a tip here, no one does.

    ... As I said, it's not MW3, it's steam. MW3 is just a game but you have the same speed for everything else you download from them too. When I download something from Steam I have 9-11Mpbs download speed, same goes for torrents.
    BriRon wrote: »
    UK and NA servers? O.o

    So what?

    I have 30-45 ping on those servers. This shouldn't affect the download speed at all. I'm also download from american servers with more speed.

    I have 85-110 ping on New York servers.
    BriRon wrote: »
    Mine did it in less than 5 mins as well.

    5 minutes are still way to long. The assassin's creed revelations, which was 48 mb was finished in less then 1.1 minutes. The download starts as soon as you press patch and is finished in less then 30 seconds with a 9Mpbs connection, then they have to copy the files and that's finished in less then 10 seconds too.
    BriRon wrote: »
    Rapid and Mega have dedicated servers to dl, as do Steam. Cf aren't going to dish out on super fast dl servers just for an occasional patch.

    Uhh why not? It's their game and it's their job to make it work. And by the way, they don't need super fast servers for 5mb patches.
    BriRon wrote: »
    Because Its CF and read one above.

    You are the biggest a* every. z8 is betraying his customers and all you do is to protect them. Do you even see how stupid you are?

    EmoTiiVe wrote: »
    QFT.

    This is the only post for which this thread is worth something.

    /Thread

    Why don't you s*ck some c*ck f*ggot?


    What the f*ck is wrong with you all? I asked a legitimate question and all you do is b*tching like little kids.

    None of you really knows why the updates are so slow so shut the f*ck up!!!

    What the f*ck is the game doing with the files after they are downloaded? The bar is at 100% but nothing happens.
  • Hey, I live in austria. I also have a good ping to uk sever (39) and me it only took 10 minutes to update ..
  • .............
    I'm just gonna say
    Chill.....No need to curse.They have a point,this isn't a mw3 forum.
    Second.
    Z8Games = UK and NA
    SGI(Or is it gamerage now?) = All of Europe

    You'll probably see a huge difference in the download speed.
  • If you really have such a fast internet connection then why don't you redownload the whole game? ;) Takes me two minutes.

    The problem seems to be that the files are heavily compressed (I think to 33% of their original size) so your computer needs some time to extract them. Also the installtion routine is pretty bad. But who didn't expect something else ;)

    @ off topic
    Who said that Germany got fast internet lives behind the moon and not in Germany. Compared to others we are a development country when it comes to internet...
  • First off all learn how to quote.

    I know how to quote Ty. Just wasn't bothered, but if you insist...

    What the f*ck is wrong with you all? I asked a legitimate question and all you do is b*tching like little kids.

    Because none of us are in the same situation, if you don't like how the game is run, you are free to make your own game or move.

    If you feel that we are 'b*tching like little kids' you then you may want to reconsider the amount of insults ON SEVERAL MEMBERS in your posts.


    You are the biggest a* every. z8 is betraying his customers and all you do is to protect them. Do you even see how stupid you are?

    And in any way is Z8 Betraying their players?
    They are called Z8GAMES
    not Z8Superfastdlsforonlyonepersonwhenallotherplayersarefine.
  • Smagjus wrote: »
    If you really have such a fast internet connection then why don't you redownload the whole game? ;) Takes me two minutes.

    This ^

    Exactly what I wanted to say.
  • ' wrote:
    40;2868801']This ^

    Exactly what I wanted to say.
    Somebody had to say it ;)
    BriRon wrote: »
    And in any way is Z8 Betraying their players?
    As long as you see ZP purchases as donation then yeah they don't. There is simply no support for most of the players.
  • RookEh wrote: »
    Chill.....No need to curse.They have a point,this isn't a mw3 forum.

    OMG are you guys stupid? Get over mw3, it was just an example :mad: don't you guys understand that? I recently downloaded mw3, that's why I mention it. If I had downloaded TF2 yesterday then I would use TF2 as an example.

    RookEh wrote: »
    Second.
    Z8Games = UK and NA
    SGI(Or is it gamerage now?) = All of Europe

    You'll probably see a huge difference in the download speed.

    It's not the internet speed, the installation is slow.

    Smagjus wrote: »
    If you really have such a fast internet connection then why don't you redownload the whole game? ;) Takes me two minutes.

    700 mb in 2 minutes? Tell me how you do it. It's not impossible to download those files in 2 minutes but the cf servers are really slow.
    Smagjus wrote: »
    The problem seems to be that the files are heavily compressed (I think to 33% of their original size) so your computer needs some time to extract them. Also the installtion routine is pretty bad. But who didn't expect something else ;)

    Ahh finally a good answer, that's what I was looking for. Anyway I have 3.6Ghz and 8GB RAM, isn't that enough to extract the 2 or 3 MB files in less then 5 minutes? I can extract 4.7 GB files in less then 2 minutes.
    Smagjus wrote: »
    @ off topic
    Who said that Germany got fast internet lives behind the moon and not in Germany. Compared to others we are a development country when it comes to internet...

    Have you ever been in other countries? Well in some other countries people have 100mbits download and like 18 mbits upload but that's really rare. The german internet is really fast compared to other countries like the Czech Republic, Turkey, Egypt, Australia and other countries like that.

    The upload speed is really slow in germany, I have only 1.5 upload. But it's still faster then many others.
    BriRon wrote: »
    Because none of us are in the same situation, if you don't like how the game is run, you are free to make your own game or move.

    Okay so if you go to a hotel and you see that it is a stupid hotel with no beds and no food, then do you say "HEY if you don't like the hotel make your own hotel!!!"...

    We are the customers and we have to complain and demand more or they won't do a damn thing.
    BriRon wrote: »
    If you feel that we are 'b*tching like little kids' you then you may want to reconsider the amount of insults ON SEVERAL MEMBERS in your posts.

    I wouldn't insult if you guys don't make pointless posts. It's the same in every thread, there is the same answer all over the thread because people just click answer without reading.

    BriRon wrote: »
    And in any way is Z8 Betraying their players?
    They are called Z8GAMES
    not Z8Superfastdlsforonlyonepersonwhenallotherplayersarefine.

    They do because they make bad patches with errors and bugs. They remove all the good free stuff and replace them with ZP things. They don't do what we want.

    okay just fck the download speed. The download speed is not that bad at all but why is the installation so slow?

  • Okay so if you go to a hotel and you see that it is a stupid hotel with no beds and no food, then do you say "HEY if you don't like the hotel make your own hotel!!!"...

    We are the customers and we have to complain and demand more or they won't do a damn thing.

    They do because they make bad patches with errors and bugs. They remove all the good free stuff and replace them with ZP things. They don't do what we want.

    Well, Z8 have provided the beds and the food, but your complaining about no chocolate bars to buy.

    But hey, every company does stupid things every now and then, in any case, they are a business and businesses try to make money, and the faster the patch is released, they faster they get their money.
  • BriRon wrote: »
    Well, Z8 have provided the beds and the food, but your complaining about no chocolate bars to buy.

    But hey, every company does stupid things every now and then, in any case, they are a business and businesses try to make money, and the faster the patch is released, they faster they get their money.

    Have you ever played games other then crossfire? Is it really to much if I want a fast patch?
    Your_Boss wrote: »
    because you had this browser open.

    /ignore