38 minutes on Allocating Space (NON-Steam client)

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Henry_GGG wrote:

Hey,

Because the update is rather substantial, the 'Checking Resources' or 'Allocating Space' portion of the install/update can take awhile. This part of the installation process relies on your PC Memory and HDD/SSD performance.
The best thing you can do here, is make sure your anti-virus software isn't slowing it down and to ensure the client is running with administrative rights.

500 GB Sansung SSD 54% free space
16 GB RAM

still 1 and 1/2 hour for 60% allocating space =/

cmon...

finally done allocating .. took 1 hour 19 minutes to allocate space .. finally downloading 14.23% of 7.22gb

I think it would have been faster to reinstall from scratch. I don't remember the beta being this long. (yes I understand that everyone and their dog is trying to downoload the game) My complaint is for the overly exaggerated allocating space nightmare.

Oh well good luck everyone hope it speeds up for ya'll

Never took this long before.
Not only that, but when I start the client and it starts checking for resources everything else on my system grinds to a halt. Even posting here has issues.

over 3 hours on the screen, 2 gb left...
i just took the second shower for the day
and i needed to pop my first rockstar watermelon
because i ragesmoked my double bubbler 3.0
im not sure if im sad cause i dont feel anything
why u ggg did not turned the servers down 6 hours
bevore i mean rly and why u dont give the data to
download atleast 2 days bevore like other games
i guess im bored but im not sure the cause i mentioned

no need to rush ..



I am NOT complaining I totally understand that this is a launch day in and of itself. With a "launch" type day I expect there there to be capacity problems

Just want to put in here, that one of the biggest gaming companies served it´s customers 10 GB patches almost once a week, patches that broke the game and required a full re-download of the client (30 GB).

It can always be worse and I bet they are trying their best to get the game running. I yet have to patch, it did allocate space for 3 hours and since then every attempt to patch comes to a hold and I must start from scratch again. :)

Time for bed and we will see what happens tomorrow, I wish everyone luck if you keep trying.