Just bought it and now I need to download 7 gigs? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu May 12, 2011 4:54 am

I installed the game and when finished Steam started downloading a 7 gigabyte update.

Is that really neccesary or am I doing something wrong?

I want to play the game now, and not having to wait 6-8 hours after I bought it.

Thanks

» Thu May 12, 2011 1:06 pm

You sure you downloaded the game before and it just didn't prepare your files? You ever see that vid of the Mac guy who just got steam?

» Thu May 12, 2011 3:53 am

Did the game actually install? From the CD, it will copy the assets over and this process takes a little while... Maybe 20 mins+

» Thu May 12, 2011 3:59 am

I bought the cd in a store, went home, clicked install game, (already had steam account), steam started the 7 gig fallout update. Steam now says "ready to play in approximately: 14 hours 27 min..."

I'm gonna try a re-install

» Thu May 12, 2011 1:25 pm

Just tried to re-install the game.

It stopped, came up with something like "1 file was missing and will be re-acquired" and went back to downloading

» Thu May 12, 2011 11:39 am

I bought the cd in a store, went home, clicked install game, (already had steam account), steam started the 7 gig fallout update. Steam now says "ready to play in approximately: 14 hours 27 min..."

I'm gonna try a re-install

Wow that is crazy I would be pretty mad especially if I had a super slow connection. Good luck on the reinstall.

Edit: I still get that re-acquire file thing when I verify my cache but everything works fine for me so far.

» Wed May 11, 2011 10:30 pm

When I reinstalled (HD failing) Steam started downloading the whole 7GB game at 100MB remaining of the 200MB retail patch... :S
Apparently deleting the local files via Steam and re-running the DVD installer may work.

I think everyone gets the 1 file failed thing, be nice to tidy that up at some point.

» Thu May 12, 2011 1:21 am

Yes it's crazy.

HELP PLEASE !

edit: it's past midnight now...no fallout today. I hope for some action tomorrow though. It better be a whole lot better by then.
Until now I am not that satisfied

» Thu May 12, 2011 4:46 am

Wow steam really svcks

» Thu May 12, 2011 12:23 am

Wow steam really svcks

It's not good for everyone that's for sure. & Steam is THE reason I haven't got New Vegas.

» Thu May 12, 2011 1:00 pm

It's not good for everyone that's for sure. & Steam is THE reason I haven't got New Vegas.

it's not only steam.. it's a hiddiously buggy game and it's highly recommended to get the patches.. I agree that 7gb is excessive though.. but I had an issue with pre-loading the game where it wanted to redownload it again etc :/ it might be a region thing?

» Thu May 12, 2011 1:54 am

Well, it's working now - twenty hours after I bought the game. I'll remember this the next time it says Steam on the box. That's for sure. NEVER again.

And as for bugs. One of the first NPCs I encountered was a baseball cap dug into the ground!! Turned out his name was Jones (or something). LOL

The game itself is great so far