Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Steam Patch forever unpacking

I downloaded the update in 4 minutes and the unpacking process is currently slated to take 45 minutes....

Yeah I was about to post this. +1

It took mine a while but it finally finished. I had to watch in the downloading page to see how long it was actually going to take even though it showed basically that it was done.

There's definitely something wrong with this patch. Over an hour later it's still "installing." This is after it took forever to pre-allocate space (have TONS of room on my SSD), and then ages to download and unpack a measly 400mb patch... This is pretty unacceptable.

Mine did take the full 45 minutes, but ended up starting up correctly. It is making my graphics card run 6°c hotter, though.

Mines been preallocating for over 10 min. No disk usage, nothing. I just hope my saves aren't done for like I've been seeing...

It was acting really weird. I had another game update, so I paused BG and made the other download and it would auto pause the other game and start BG again. So i exited out, restarted steam and the other game that was booted back was up to date. So i hit the x to clear the queue and it would just pop back into the queue. No idea if its a steam issue or bg3 haha

After restarting Steam, and then my whole PC, it's literally redownloading the whole game... wtf Larian...

Oh, wow. Just...wow.

This just happened to me as well. Do I really have to download this 60 gig game again.

After downloading the whole 56gb of the game again, its now stuck on "finalizing" or "installing" in both my library and on my download page respectively.
There is no disk usage occuring. It's a 0/bytes/s. TIME REMAINING more than a year....
So I tried stopping the download, and it froze steam up.
After restarting steam, it wants to redownload another 36gb. I'm done. I uninstalled.
I don't know if the issue is on Valve's end or Larian's but I've cooked 2 hours of my day off on this already and I am not willing to spend any more time today.
I'll try the game again in a few patches. Hopefully things will be better.

I was reading comments on the Larian FB page and they state they have reverted the Patch due to the save games crashing the game. Unclear what that truly means

Im updating with another 800mb update right now...been like 30 minutes so far...will update in a moment

edit: After the 30 minute download, I meant a moment = another 35 minutes of unpacking. Damn my tester ethics and wanting to be on the current patch!

My Steam version started downloading the whole game. It got to about 30 GB of 59.6, but I just opened another game and it started completely over. Now it's at 3.5 GB.

Took 1 hour but the new old patch works still \o/