Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM
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Arma 3 is awesome, but can be slow to load. So what do you do? Install it on your system SSD.
What happens next (partially thanks to space-hungry windows)?
Update failed - 19GB of space required, of 18 free.Ahh... okay, so I guess I can survive it loading a bit slower. So I go to "Move local files" to my main data drive.
Files can't be moved to new library folder (update required)Bullshit! F You! If it wasn't just 1GB missing that I can clear out, I guess I would be "deadlocked", unless I was willing to uninstall the game wholly and then re-download and re-install it to the new location?
Oh wow.
UPDATE: I did have to uninstall and am now reinstalling it after all, because FUCK YEAH LET'S PARTIALLY ALLOCATE SPACE BEFORE WE CHECK IF WE HAVE ENOUGH, THEN WE TELL WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH, AND AT THE NEXT ATTEMPT, WE WILL CHECK AND ASK FOR THE FULL 19 GIGS TO BE FREE EVEN DESPITE WE ALREADY PRE-ALLOCATED 17GIGS BEFORE, SO NOW YOU'RE FUCKED BECAUSE OUR PROGRAM IS SO SMERT.
So "steam is now
downloading armamaking something that could have taken 10 minutes into an 8 hour wait because we are so smert"
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Sounds like this little glitch has got you really steamed!
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@masonwheeler said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
Sounds like this little glitch has got you really steamed!
Paging @Groaner
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@masonwheeler said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
Sounds like this little glitch has got you really steamed!
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/013/974/clap.gif
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@Fox said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
@masonwheeler said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
Sounds like this little glitch has got you really steamed!
Paging @Groaner
Better get on that before those emotions boil over into something worse.
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I am dissapoint. Was expecting a rant about Science Technology Engineering Art and Math.
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The future of software distribution is the Windows Store, which is much more flexible and never breaks
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@anonymous234 said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
The future of software distribution is the Windows Store, which is much more flexible and never breaks
All three Windows Store Users are happy with it.
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@sh_code I'm like 90% sure you could've copied the library over to the main drive and detected a new library...
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The latest Steam Client Beta breaks the overlay on non-Steam games like Guild Wars 2.
The overlay process is still running, because @blakeyrat was able to watch my broadcast, but there was no visual representation of the Steam stuff, and the Shift+Tab and F12 shortcuts didn't work.
Hopefully this isn't an intentional change. Since broadcasting still works, I'm guessing it's a bug.
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IIRC you can actually manually move the folder and its associated appid file thing, restart steam (very important) and it would have assumed it was always there from the start. NFC why it wouldn't do the Right Thing, besides Steam of course.
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I think I moved some steam games by moving them to a different library location, then telling Steam to verify the installation. It's still stupid that you have to do it manually in Explorer and know where the library locations are though
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@Jaloopa said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
I think I moved some steam games by moving them to a different library location, then telling Steam to verify the installation. It's still stupid that you have to do it manually in Explorer and know where the library locations are though
Things you can do without Steam breaking include moving it to a different drive and deleting all the files except steam.exe.
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@WernerCD said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
@anonymous234 said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
The future of software distribution is the Windows Store, which is much more flexible and never breaks
All three Windows Store Users are happy with it.
The other three may be, but I'm less enthusiastic…
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
IIRC you can actually manually move the folder and its associated appid file thing, restart steam (very important) and it would have assumed it was always there from the start. NFC why it wouldn't do the Right Thing, besides Steam of course.
thought about it at first, but at the start i thought "well, if it won't let me move the mid-update-paused game even through its official own custom button, it MIGHT have some reason, so snatching the folders from under it MIGHT not be a good idea, at the very least for that game, or maybe even it would break whole steam".
and then when I was in the phase of "delete whole arma, re-download", i was irritated enough to forget to try that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
IIRC you can actually manually move the folder and its associated appid file thing, restart steam (very important) and it would have assumed it was always there from the start. NFC why it wouldn't do the Right Thing, besides Steam of course.
I have my Steam Folder on it's own hard drive - and have had it so for years. It's nice having 1.2tb of data segregated from everything else.
You can delete everything but Steam.exe and steamapps... and then start Steam.exe as administrator (so it can reinstall/reconfigure the windows services it uses)... and be up and running after relogging in.
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@ben_lubar said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
@Jaloopa said in Quick spout of annoyance at STEAM:
I think I moved some steam games by moving them to a different library location, then telling Steam to verify the installation. It's still stupid that you have to do it manually in Explorer and know where the library locations are though
Things you can do without Steam breaking include moving it to a different drive and deleting all the files except steam.exe.
I'd refrain from deleting steamapps... unless you want to redownload all your games.
