For the past 6 days, I’ve received 5 updates of more than a Gigabyte!
What are these updates? Although the game has very few issues, they are never fixed!

Edit:
Apparently it’s not updates, but downloads of undermined purpose?

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Native borderlands 2 looks and runs like ass in my experience. The game was basically unrecognizable until I ran it in proton.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Funny, it always ran fine here? I just used the Proton version to get shift keys.
      If it wasn’t for the Proton stuttering I would have stayed on that, IDK what causes this, but it’s not just Borderlands 2, I think it’s a problem in Steam, maybe because of my about 12 year old backed up steam folder that has somehow folded to old age? I’m planning on installing a new system soon, and when I do, I’ll only be copying over saved games data, and reinstall everything.

  • Robin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The size of the updates and also the size of the game itself might be due to how it is packaged. You want data that belongs together and is accessed together to be stored together. For example, the game might have one file per level that is loaded and kept in memory when you enter that level. You might even store the same asset multiple times if that means it’s easier to access sequentially. This optimization is less necessary in the are of ssds but you don’t want your game to be completely unplayable on people that still run it from a hard drive.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Issue 2:
    “The Lost Treasure” quest, where you first get some maps in Sawtooth Cauldron, and then follow the clues in Caustic Caverns to activate the elevator. When you finally get to the chest, it cannot open. Apparently not everybody has this bug, but I have it EVFERY time!

    If you cannot open the chest, just leave Caustic Caverns and reenter, and go back to the chest, and now for some reason it will open?!

  • Laavu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Acording to SteamDB, there has been no updates. I didn’t manually check all of the 355 depots though. I’d guess it’s either shader cache, corrupted game files, or a bug in Steam.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      OK I didn’t know you could do that, this is very strange? Is there a way I can see a log of my steam downloads?
      https://steamdb.info/sub/46441/
      Says here May 2024 was latest update.
      But it’s not just me, my wife also get these updates?

      • swab148@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Are you sure it’s not just validating? Like, do you actually lose a GB of space on your drive every day?

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          4 months ago

          IDK, it actually just says “downloading 1 of 1 items”,
          It just did it with Borderlaqnds GOTY Enhanced while is was playing Borderlands 2?
          It only says downloaded and completed, nothing about why there was a download.
          I started it by mistake, just before playing Borderlands 2, and skipped it before it was finished with shaders?

          • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            If you hover over the (i) symbol next to the title, you’ll see that’s a shader cache update.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Issue 1:
    Tip to enable Dynamic lighting on Radeon Graphics.

    If you use AMD Radeon graphics, Dynamic lighting is turned off, the game look A LOT BETTER with this on, and it has worked for years. Dynamic lighting enables the day/night cycle lights, without it, it’s always daylight, and things look flatter too.
    .
    How to enable on AMD Radeon GPU:
    Goto your home directory and show hidden files.
    Open .local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/config/Willowengine.ini
    Change DynamicLights=False to True

    If you never saw Borderlands 2 with this setting on, you’ll be amazed.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I dunno about you update issues, But one thing I have to point out is the Linux native version of BL2 is an outdated build so if you want to play co-op with Windows players you have to run it through proton.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      So it’s an outdated build, yet it gets frequent updates. That just makes it even weirder?
      It’s not an issue as such, it only takes a few seconds, it just seems weird. Since nothing is fixed. The latest updates mentioned on the steam page are more than a year old.
      I used the proton version earlier, that’s how I found out about the graphics issue. But for some reason my proton version began to stutter? So I went back to native Linux.