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When I subscribe to an addon on the Garry's Mod workshop, Steam instantly downloads them in the download manager.
When I open Garry's Mod, it seems to be downloading even more things, and both stages uses bandwidth as far as I can see.
As in: Garry's Mod does not use the files downloaded by Steam. Does it?
[B]My Questions:[/B]
1.When Steam downloads an item from the workshop, where is it stored? In the addons folder or elsewhere? [I]I've checked my addons folder and I don't seem to see any new addons after all newly subscribed addons are downloaded.[/I]
2.Why is Garry's Mod downloading my addons again? (And is it downloading it twice or only updates?) I've noticed that both steps involve using a lot of bandwidth... [I]And I've seen the addons I've just downloaded need another redownloading.[/I]
3.If the addons downloaded by Steam are stored elsewhere, is there any way to make Garry's Mod copy-paste instead of downloading them again (if it is doing that)?
Steam downloads the actual files, Garry's Mod then extracts the files and puts them into addons/ folder, no bandwidth is used. ( It is only used to get info about all your addons from Steam )
To be clear, addons in Steam are compressed by LZMA, so when you download the addons, they must be decompressed first before they can be used.
[QUOTE=Robotboy655;47550784]Steam downloads the actual files, Garry's Mod then extracts the files and puts them into addons/ folder, no bandwidth is used. ( It is only used to get info about all your addons from Steam )
To be clear, addons in Steam are compressed by LZMA, so when you download the addons, they must be decompressed first before they can be used.[/QUOTE]
As for the order... Does it download updates, or does it uncompress new files then download the updates...
Or does it do it in no particular order?
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[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47550789]1. same folder as gmod
2. verify+grabbing files it's missing (aka it's missing an integrity check or you're missing some that steam isn't grabbing)
3. see 1
what you should do is delete your entire addon (at least all of the .gma files) folder and start again from scratch and restart garrys mod and let it basically sit and re-download all of the addons you're subscribed to
[editline]18th April 2015[/editline]
ninja'd by robot[/QUOTE]
That might be a little problematic when there's 1,200 addons there. And Australia's internet SUCKS.
(I mean literally)
[QUOTE=aytimothy;47550788]As for the order... Does it download updates, or does it uncompress new files then download the updates...
Or does it do it in no particular order?
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1) Mount all addons ( Not sure if this mounts workshop addons, but it should mount legacy addons )
2) Check for updates
3) Download all updated/newly subscribed addons ( This is what can be skipped by Steam downloading shit )
4) Extract all updated/new addons
5) Mount again.
[QUOTE=aytimothy;47550796]That might be a little problematic when there's 1,200 addons there. And Australia's internet SUCKS.
(I mean literally)[/QUOTE]
If you are trying to download 1200 addons, you are doing something really wrong.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47550800]
You can either let Gmod sit there for hours decompressing what it got from steam or you can delete what's in your addons folder and let Gmod grab it on next boot directly from the workshop.
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It's actually not extracting anything from Steam. It's downloading from the workshop. Or is it that the big freeze before the game starts (after the loading screen) be the time where Garry's Mod is extracting the compressed Steam files and that the stage (where it downloads and stops freezing) is just the updating [existing out-of-date addons] stage?
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