Daveyofdownunder Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Over the last few days steam has had New Vegas re-downloading or saying it is updating.I only have limited internet. Can't stop it. And it is fully updated but is downloading files the size of the game. Please help me out.Explain to me what it is doing or how to stop this. Haven't been able to play for a day or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theobeau Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hello there, I've had a similar problem after mucking about the contents of my D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\fallout new vegas\Data directory in trying to get some customised Body mods working. Steam has at least twice downloaded ~9GBs of content which appears to consist of the main BSA and ESM files for NV and any DLC. This auto update feature can be turned off by selecting library from the Steam menu; R clicking the game "Fallout New Vegas" and choosing Properties->updates-> and turn turning off auto updates. You should do it only after it completes its update cycle or you might end up with corrupted BSA or ESM files, which is what happened to me when I didn't follow my own advice. As to why it is happening, I can't explain. I can say that my game works fine EXCEPT I am experiencing a strange loss of textures and meshes whenever I use my PIPBOY in Goodsprings. Who knows if or how the two are related. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveyofdownunder Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 Yeah the only thing I have are some small mod files adding some items to the game. So it could all be a weird interaction with the geck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theobeau Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 @ Daveyofdownunder, Hope the instructions switched off the Gbs of downloads replacing the BSA and ESM files. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveyofdownunder Posted October 14, 2011 Author Share Posted October 14, 2011 Yeah it seems to have worked... I guess it has also been what has been causing my mods to screw up. Which is the next problem to sort out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theobeau Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 @Daveyofdownunder, Good to hear that you are at least saving bandwidth. Best wishes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveyofdownunder Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 And somehow it set itself back to auto download and steam has been crashing today as it tries to download. Nver had this problem with fallout 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theobeau Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Hi Daveyofdownunder, For some reason it keeps on resetting every so often. I now make it a habit of making sure auto download is turned off everytime I reboot the machine and restart steam. Something that I've done is to keep a backup of the main BSA and ESM files; there are times that something happens, the files get chewed up and disappear which happened to me when I had problems with the GECK. You can fairly easily work out which file is missing and it is far easier to paste back in your copy of the original that have Steam waste bandwidth and time. Hope this saves you some pain. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveyofdownunder Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 That never occured to me...reckon I will back up all the files then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveyofdownunder Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 And it is still an issue I just stopped playing the game. It happens on steam allot apparently..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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