Go get it! :-D

Still probably going to take 3+ hours for it to patch on my machine, but at least it's released. lol

finally!

9gbs.

Looks like i'm not playing tonight since it auto updated.

I've got the connection to easily handle the 9Gig d/l.
the problem is if they are patching the same way they did before, it's going to take 3+ hours on my HDD! :-s

Almost makes me want to go buy an SSD.
Thing is I designed this computer with HDD's in mind... slow initial load, but 32Gig of ram so that nothing needs to be unloaded after first load.

Just seems like there's a disconnect between what the patch notes are saying it provides and the size of the patch. Also you should def get an ssd despite having that much RAM.

Well their patch method coppies over the archives before applying the patches, then coppies them back.
I don't like this patch method at all!
I'd rather have the steam method of just re-d/l'ing the big ass archives if needed.

For d/l efficiency it's extremely good though.

Dude...I just recovered my account (which I never used before here) just to answer you.

That makes totally no sense on a windows machine. Maybe on Linux, not on windows o.O


SSDs are dirt cheap todays. Get one!

I got a super expensive (back then) 128gig ssd for my OS already ~8 years ago.

Went full SSD 4 years ago. Its another world !!!

Currently running:

1TB NVME SSD m.2 (OS)
1TB NVME SSD m.2 (most played games)
3x 1TB SATA SSD (other Games and stuff)
6 TB HDD for Data garbage

I could never go back to HDDs for OS or games :O

SSD's are still 50% more money then HDD's here.
So I can get a TB HDD for the same price as a 512SSD.

I have an ssd, but it's only ... I think 128gig.
I could only use it for the OS... and honestly I don't care about that initial load most of the time.

I also don't want to spend an extra 130$ for a new ssd.

Go to where the game is installed and in the bin folder is the exe, run it and even with gog downloading the patch it will load... Just make sure you dont have the game open when the patch finishes downloading.

I've downloaded it, and after a quick check it looks as though the non-AVX instruction seems to be working (didn't crash in the usual places). Good news for my ancient i7 920!

Kingston has some cheap SSD with decent perf, I picked one up for my mother just as her windows boot drive for 40 bucks 240gig (cheapest 1tb HDD is 70 bucks here)

hell yeah, thanks bro

The ssd I have is a kingston one.
However when I got their program to check the health of the drive, it didn't work.
Because of this, I don't think much of kingston. :-s

Doesn't fix frame rate drops, unfortunately.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this has nothing to do with only initial load. If you run a windows system your 32gb ram will not help you.

You whole system will get an insane speed boost by using a ssd.

I just switched from my Sata SSD to an NVME SSD two weeks ago and thought "well, this cant be such a boost" and boy was I wrong... even that upgrade feels insane regarding the whole system.

Coming AAA Games will demand SSDs as a bare minimum. Even blizzard tried with the latest wow expansion to bring a SSD as minimum requirement, but made a turn short before release.