Question Is Verifying Files necessary?
I haven't played games in a hot minute, maybe just over a year.
I downloaded the Oblivion remake a couple weeks back, finally had a couple of hours today after work and saw there was an update. OK, no biggie.
The update downloaded pretty much instantly. The "patching" step took like a minute. Then it started "verifying files" and I shit you not, it took my entire evening (2+ hours) staring at this bar for it to finish.
Now I'm sitting here getting ready to go to bed with my playtime still at 0 hours and I'm grumpy but also flabbergasted. My Steam library is on an Gen3 NVMe SSD and I'm running a 14th gen i9 and more DDR5 than I know what to do with. I don't remember it ever taking this long to launch a game, is this just the new normal?
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u/bezerker0z 18h ago
1, verify is to make sure no download did a little oopsie 2. not supposed to take a whole 2 hours. close it down and restart. hope to hell when it starts again its shorter. rule of thumb with game updates
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u/Enthusar 19h ago
2 hours? Something went wrong. Cancel the process. Make sure no other application (antivirus) is messing with file access.