Hi guys,

I had not played Skyrim for a couple of months and I lost track completely of what on earth I had installed mod-wise and what I would have to remove to get the game back to an un-modded state etc... so I uninstalled the game and deleted everything.

I re-installed it from the disk and now it is downloading an update, but it is taking a very long time. (30 mins so far). Is it downloading the hi-rez DLC or is this just a patch taking all this time and I have to download the DLC seperately again afterwards? I went to the DLC page and it says "you already own this DLC" and there is no "download" option, just a "play" option.

Thanks for any info in advance!

If you had it before I think it stays stored on your Steam account. I reinstalled Skyrim more than once now but never had to re-dl the DLC.

Yes that is almost certainly the DLC downloading.

Depends on your uninstall method if you clean out the folders and registry keys after uninstall then I would assume the DLC has to re download as well. I always leave steam to do this stuff when I am about to go to bed but a full reinstall at 1.2 MB/s is approx 6 - 8 hours with the DLC included for me.

Hey guys,

I'm not entirely sure what happened if I'm honest. When the update finished downloading, the Hi-Res textures were already there in the Data folder, so I think it was them downloading afterall. Not sure how big the Skyrim patches themselves are, it took over an hour, maybe two to download. Seems a long time for a patch.

It re-downloads only if it cannot find it in the /Data folder. So what I like to do, is keep a compressed copy of the DLC on a separate hard drive and when I go for a complete re-install I delete everything in the Skyrim directory then copy over the DLC back into the Data folder so steam won't re download 3gb.

Smart trick sir

Thanks, very good tip!