New Installer painfully slow

[ctguy1955]

16.8 upload with 100 peers and my DL is 3.1 kilobytes per sec. I have to wait the entire

day to download the upgrade instead of flying. If You don't do the upgrade, the servers

are blank. I hope I can get a choice in the near future ?

 

*********** Just read I can hit cancel and use HTTP ****************

[Zimmerdylan]

Wow...and I thought the hour and a half was too long. I'll never complain again. I did ACCIDENTALLY cancel the download and discover the http option. It was a he!! of a lot faster.

[Looney]

Left it runnng for the night, woke up at 934mb out of 950 with 0.1Kb/sec download. Cancelled it and within minutes was done with the update.

 

I like the idea, needs to be more fleshed ot me thinks.

 

based.

[gerd]

It might not be a bad thing to have an option to choose where the downloaded files are temporarily stored.

 

I suppose we all have DCS on a SSD drive to minimize stutters and torrents do wear out SSD quickly (stream of small writes is bad for SSD health).

[klem]

This is a test. Just click on "Cancel", then you can choose to download it via http and to get your usual download speed.

 

THANK YOU.......

[Sporg]

Hi Sith

 

A question: Did they let the torrent updater use the in-game network speed settings?

 

Reason I ask is that I get 200 kb/s upload on a 100/100 Mbit line..

 

If they did, that could be the culprit of of low speeds: Like many others I have set low network speeds in-game in order not to overload game servers.

[yzr]

DCS Updater

 

Hi DCS Team,

 

yesterday evening i started the download of the "new" update (2907Mb). 8 h later i have this.

 

 

comon guys... i cant run my computer for 3 Days to do an update?!

[Mainstay]

You can cancel the update and it will proceed downloading the old way.

[T_A]

Torrent needs some limiting , it sucked my upload dry and killed my internet.

[IonIan11]

I'm frankly relieved I'm not the only one having this issue. Other games that use torrent updating (eg. WarThunder) always slow down until they stop downloading completely on my computer. I was concerned this was another manifestation of that issue. I will be hitting 'Cancel' and selecting the regular download now.

 

As for DCS torrenting in general, I'm personally fine with it, but only if they can get it working as well as the current system and add more control for the many people with sucky internet service.

[Phantom453]

..and at the end has slowed down to this and has been stuck here for ages.

 

 

183 peers and only 1.5 KB/s???

[KLR Rico]

I don't think it's the bit torrent method in particular, it's just that there's something wrong with the installer's settings. If the ED servers are also seeders, then the torrent should always be at least as fast as the old installer.

[Jinks]

Uploading at speeds up to 200kb/s and downloading from 0.5 to 30 kb/s. Been running for hours now.

[Lymark]

I don't understand, can't they make the updater updates similar to the game exe download?

 

It takes less than 30mins for me to download the whole 10GB of the game, whereas it's gonna take me more than a day just to download this 1GB updater updates.

 

It just doesn't make sense :/

[Tucano_uy]

Well, in my neck of the woods internet access is mediocre at best. My internet is metered, something that people in Europe or North America might have forgotten of, so I pay for both download and upload traffic. I'm not sure if I'm happy with the change.

[KLR Rico]

If you click cancel on the update you have the option to download via the old method.

[c0ff]

updater 2.6.3.26 is out: supports so-called 'web-seeding' - if it can't find data among the peers it will download pieces from http, so it should be best of both worlds.

still, pressing cancel on torrents asks to go old-school http which may be better or worse depending on the current conditions.

 

to use new updater you should completely cancel current update process and start again from the 'Update DCS World' menu entry.

[Tucano_uy]

updater 2.6.3.26 is out: supports so-called 'web-seeding' - if it can't find data among the peers it will download pieces from http, so it should be best of both worlds.

still, pressing cancel on torrents asks to go old-school http which may be better or worse depending on the current conditions.

 

to use new updater you should completely cancel current update process and start again from the 'Update DCS World' menu entry.

 

Many thanks

[Tucano_uy]

Something curious: When downloading via torrent, it says the update is more or less 1GB, if I cancel and go the HTTP way, the update is 1,8 GB.

[c0ff]

Something curious: When downloading via torrent, it says the update is more or less 1GB, if I cancel and go the HTTP way, the update is 1,8 GB.

 

HTTP downloader tells the uncompressed size in the top line because decompression is done on the fly, true DL size is on the left below the progress bar.

Torrent downloader tells the compressed size because decompression is done in a separate step.

 

Sorry, this is misleading a bit. Fixing requires some non-trivial changes.

[7rooper]

Does it download faster using the old method?

I had to go to bed and cancelled the update after 4 hours and 5 Mb downloaded only

[StandingCow]

It might not be a bad thing to have an option to choose where the downloaded files are temporarily stored.

 

I suppose we all have DCS on a SSD drive to minimize stutters and torrents do wear out SSD quickly (stream of small writes is bad for SSD health).

 

I wouldn't say that at all about SSD's. That whole SSD life fear really isn't relevant today, not even sure how relevant it was with the earlier generations.

[slicker55]

Finally got done 2.5 hours later... then decided to purchase a new module... downloaded in seconds at 6.5MB/s (money talks) hahahahahah!

[c0ff]

nice you have a dedicated thread for torrent talks.

 

Sorry that it worked out not so great at the start, but it was the only way to see how it will behave in the wild. It seems like most problems are related to how the files are layed out in the torrents, because while update downloads crawl, installing a full module is blazingly fast so far. We gonna make an experiment or two with the layouts, will see how it goes. Also, there's an idea to let users seed what's downloaded, many people asked for this option.

 

Thank you for your support.

[Dudikoff]

I think it's a good idea and one that makes sense to offload the servers somewhat (so when I download DCSW installations, I always use the torrents), but there was obviously something wrong with some of the update files since my updates slowed down to 0 when it reached the last files until I canceled it and the last 200+ MB were re-downloaded via http.

 

But, since some people have limited quota's, there should definitely be an option to manage the upload speed.

Edited November 24, 2015 by Dudikoff