Fast updates

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  1. Hex Blade

    Hex Blade Well-Known Member

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    #1 Hex Blade, Dec 3, 2012
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    I resently got an update for real racing 2 and it downloaded and install in a matter of seconds. It used to take about an hour with large games.

    So I'm wondering, has the 6.0.1 update that I've resently installed improved app update speeds by any chance?
     
  2. Primoz

    Primoz Well-Known Member

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    No, it has nothing to do with iOS. Apple updated the AppStore, so now developers can release "patches". So you only have to download the patch (or add-on or something like that) and not the whole game.

    At least that's what I think.
     
  3. Eoghann

    Eoghann Well-Known Member

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    An app store update or in game update?

    Coz in game updates are commonly server based patches that are launched. Those tend to be pretty small. Blood and Glory II did that. Upon launching the game it would look for updates and they would take seconds. But those are patches.

    App store updates are usually full builds of the game. So depending if you have a wicked connection or not, it can take minutes or much longer. But even then I doubt it would take seconds to download a full game build.
     
  4. Primoz

    Primoz Well-Known Member

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    Those are games that require online connection. That's kinda different Updating "online games" with patches only, was possible since... always.
     
  5. Eoghann

    Eoghann Well-Known Member

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    Regardless, the point was that it was most likely a patch and not a full build that he downloaded.
     
  6. Primoz

    Primoz Well-Known Member

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    Which is what I said in the first post. It's good that patches are possible now, but shouldn't somewhere say what the patch file size is? Or is there but I'm just missing it?
     

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