SawedOffLaser Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Thanks for the update man. I was trying to download some mods and I thought the issue was the Nexus Mod Manager, until I tried manual download and that failed as well. I hope everything improves soon, I'd like to get back into modding for FO3 and NV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeWhitfield Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Thanks for the explanation. I too have had some problems and slow downloading lately. I hadn't really thought about why or connected it to the Steam sale, although that makes perfect sense. And it certainly hadn't occurred to me to complain about it, as I'm getting tons of great content for free with a reasonable number of adverts. Who complains that they aren't getting great stuff for free quickly enough? Thanks for all the hard work, good luck moving to CDN, and congrats on the new users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madrias Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Among all the complaining I've seen, I'm glad to say this: despite the constant hammering on your servers, the Nexus held strong. Despite not being able to download (I was trying to update a few mods that pushed updates during the sale week... I'd forgotten about the Steam Sale), the site held up and I could still post comments and browse mods. So despite the problems you had from the unexpected load, you fixed the bigger problem. I remember in previous years when the Nexus went down for maintenance almost every day of the Steam Sales because of the tremendous strain on the servers. Yet, now, the worst thing that happened was NMM being unable to download and the very unintuitive "An error has occurred" manual download error prompt. Perhaps a revised message, a little more wordy and to the point, could be used, along with a few others in case of need. Something like, "Our servers are slightly overloaded. Please wait a few minutes and try again." in order to stop the (admittedly, I did this) retry-spamming that frustrated users do. Retry, error, retry, error, retry again, another error, so on and so forth, adding to the load on the servers. At least with the CDN, you'll be able to see the Steam Sale approaching and expand the amount of download servers. No more "servers are at capacity" unless the Nexus gets a heck of a whopper the next time there's a Steam Sale. Or whenever Fallout 4 / TES VI gets released... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarMystyk Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I've been pointing people to this article, which was posted when I was updating a mod. Everyone keeps getting an error trying to download, then ranting at me as if I have anything to do with it o_ONot everything works perfectly all the time. No one could've predicted the outcome of the Steam Sale, or that there'd be an issue at all. You think you've got it covered but it turns out you don't. No big deal, you're just better prepared for next time, if there is one :) For the moment I just added a temporary mirror for my file. It's not the end of the world if you can't download a mod, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Io1 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Strange people don't make the connection, I got the game on sale, and had sometimes problems but that seemed reasonably bacause of the sale...well stuff happens ;> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengolly Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Uum...I've downloaded a few mods over the last week or so and never noticed any kind of slowdown! But then I have a pee poor connection anyway. While I'm here - a great big and heartfelt thank you to all involved with the Nexus, not only Dark0ne & his cohorts, but also all the modders out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallingStar7777 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Well, that makes sense. This explains why I haven't been able to download the most recently updated versions of a few of the mods and utilities that I use over the past week. I usually don't have any trouble, thanks for the news update. Had an error trying to download the file for Mod Organizer 1.2.9 and I'm like "What? this scenario hasn't happened before" . I didn't spam the links, if something isn't working, it isn't working so I started searching for answers and found this. I'll just chill until the Steam Summer Sale madness and after effects blows over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goliatron Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 (edited) In response to post #16172465. The only problem is I see is unreasonably slow propagation of new files to the servers. Older files download at full speed. Edited July 3, 2014 by Goliatron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthmathias Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 this might explain the constant crashes and errors of mods and nexus mod manager I had over the past week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vin2579 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Good news, thanx for the update. Cheers m8! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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