Update scheduling and Bandwidth Restriction

[Spinfx]

Hi All,

My post is open for discussion, but mainly directed the DEVS to consider.

This has happened a number of times where after working through the week and the weekend arrives only to find there is a huge update to download. I do monitor the launcher during the week for any downloads, but that can go for a few days without a check. So now its late afternoon on a Saturday and I'm still waiting for my update to finish. My Internet is not particularly fast. I understand that this always possible, but something to consider for those suffer the same issue. 

I would hope the DEVS consider scheduling the updates to be on  a Monday. This gives time for players to download before the usual weekend flying. Also giving time during the week for the DEVS to provide  a hotfix if needed.

Secondly, the updater needs a mechanism restrict bandwidth, which would allow the update to occur whilst allowing me to play another MP game. Just like Steam does.

Thirdly,  the updater needs download resumption system instead of  just starting from the beginning again if you turn off the download to do it later.

 

Cheers, 

 

Spinfx

 

 

 

Edited November 2, 2024 by Spinfx

[HILOK]

if i may extend your list 

4. allow selecting a download location other than the install drive
(download sizes have become so huge that lots of users get out of drive space during the update process, although the updated version of DCS would easily fit on their drive)

[silverdevil]

4 hours ago, Spinfx said:

Thirdly,  the updater needs download resumption system instead of  just starting from the beginning again if you turn off the download to do it later.

hello,

i cannot really speak to the first two of your points. i live in eastern VA, USA and my bandwidth is 1 GB FIOS. updates are huge of course. i can still do them in less than 10 minutes.

this proves at least one thing is that ED does not throttle. the problem is likely your internet service or a route issue.

3 hours ago, HILOK said:

4. allow selecting a download location other than the install drive

i agree with this one. so many folks with problems deal with just barely enough resources to play the game. disk, ram, gfx etc.

Edited November 2, 2024 by silverdevil

[Spinfx]

1 hour ago, silverdevil said:

hello,

i cannot really speak to the first two of your points. i live in eastern VA, USA and my bandwidth is 1 GB FIOS. updates are huge of course. i can still do them in less than 10 minutes.

this proves at least one thing is that ED does not throttle. the problem is likely your internet service or a route issue.

i agree with this one. so many folks with problems deal with just barely enough resources to play the game. disk, ram, gfx etc.

 

You misunderstand. I am suggesting that client should have the ability to throttle, so they can do other things on the internet, whilst DCS is updating. I wasn't saying DCS was throttling. Nice flex by the way.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2024 by Spinfx

[rob10]

11 hours ago, Spinfx said:

Thirdly,  the updater needs download resumption system instead of  just starting from the beginning again if you turn off the download to do it later.

Actually, while it's not readily apparent, this is currently what it does.  If you cancel it will appear to start over because it restarts at 0 MB of XX MB.  But if you look when you restart, the XX number will be smaller than if you started from scratch again.  So if the whole update is 100 MB (I wish ) and you  download 27 MB then cancel, when you restart it will be 0 MB of 73 MB (instead of the 0 of 100 that it would have shown on 1st try).

[sleighzy]

18 hours ago, Spinfx said:

I do monitor the launcher during the week for any downloads, but that can go for a few days without a check

These get posted in the #ed-updates channel of the DCS Discord server, and also this page in this DCS forum 

Might be easier to check in on those more frequently than needing to fire up the launcher every few days.