Did you get Red Dead Redemption 2? Did you go to a store and buy a physical copy or, uh, get the digital one? My download is taking a while.
I bought the digital version because I enjoy waiting around. And like a dope, I didn’t start my download at the crack of dawn. So after only two hours, I’m around 30GB in with, gasp, a bit more to go.
If you got the digital, how’s your download going?
According to my calculations, it will take over 30 hours to download Red Dead 2.
*Cries in DSL*
— Kyle Jones (@kyledrj1995) October 26, 2018
At least @RockstarGames allows us to download Red Dead Redemption before the official launch. pic.twitter.com/RJH1ZgYuwA
— Alan (@AlanMwendwa) October 24, 2018
my ps4 after being put through exactly one second of the red dead redemption 2 download process pic.twitter.com/yke4mTr1FT
— curly headed fuck (@TeeHaitchGee) October 25, 2018
The Red Dead Redemption 2 download begins ???? pic.twitter.com/ynfY7nqZUy
— MakaDonVeli (@MakaDonVeli) October 24, 2018
Red Dead 2 unlocks in 3 and a half hours, but the download still has another 18 hours. pic.twitter.com/s79py3V2sE
— Kelly. (@KelAnne_) October 25, 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2’s 92GB download is underway. pic.twitter.com/DHWJcCsq45
— ❤✌&???? Grease (@TjaarlsDavis) October 26, 2018
when ur a dumbass and decided to wait to preorder red dead, 7hrs before release thinking it’s enough time for it to download and now all ur friends are playing without u pic.twitter.com/V4jZnDtscc
— Cel (@CelCharlebois) October 26, 2018
Another awesome thing about working at Remedy: Red Dead Redemption 2 download time ~30min. #GamesJobs #JoinUs #RMDlife pic.twitter.com/bf0wgPuVDF
— Juha Vainio ▼ (@yuuhaw) October 26, 2018
This Red Dead download is brutal pic.twitter.com/tZMQDqyYjH
— Matthew Steen (@steen_roller) October 26, 2018
just got a completed download notification and remembered I preordered red dead redemption ages ago pic.twitter.com/MwwyDokMBW
— Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) October 25, 2018
when red dead launches in 2 hours but your download is at 5 hours pic.twitter.com/vGpi1sS4Iq
— wes (@yuhwes) October 26, 2018
Just got Red Dead Redemption 2, an now downloading the 2 discs… I haven’t seen a 2 disc download in like 4Ever… 105GB on my PS4 gettin eat up right now… pic.twitter.com/xli3WARK35
— Beasley (@CBeasley) October 26, 2018
When Red Dead is live but your download is only at 31% pic.twitter.com/kudOMMVY29
— Drew Chaltry (@PittMich12) October 26, 2018
this is an emotional rollercoaster pic.twitter.com/Rv0l4wxDsk
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 26, 2018
7 hours into my red dead download and we are at a solid 20.1%
— Destro (@Destronite) October 26, 2018
The download time on Red Dead Redemption 2 pic.twitter.com/E5se2mSj9z
— The Autumn Wind (@TheAutumnWind80) October 26, 2018
Me looking at the games I gotta delete to download Red Dead 2 #RedDeadRedempion2 pic.twitter.com/b6TMw30yav
— Sunken Rock (@izDatRee) October 26, 2018
It’s game time, well after a 3plus hour download ????????????????..just bought Red Dead in California???? pic.twitter.com/WJafKATIrk
— Music, A Second Language To The Heart????????✌ (@estes4697) October 26, 2018
damn, that red dead download was quick pic.twitter.com/sFkh9LGbZX
— peebles ( ˙Ꙫ˙ ) (@gwandamu) October 25, 2018
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9 responses to “Red Dead Redemption 2’s Download Time, Goodness”
They are talking also about the physical release in the tweets. It took me nearly two hours to install the game from the discs.
Yeah, for some reason it only installed at 15-20MB/sec. What kind of slow-arse disc install speed is that.
It’s more than likely slow due to data compression. It has to first uncompress the data and then install it on your console. Uncomrpessing data uses a lot of resources resulting in the slow install.
I considered that, but it still seems odd. PS4 Bluray discs hold 50GB of data and the final size on hard drive is 99GB, so they shouldn’t have needed much compression, if any.
The blu ray disc maxes out at around 27MB/s on the outer ring, and like all disc based storage solutions it get slower speeds when you reach the inner ring.
Compression techniques are only usually slow when compressing, decompressing is usually always much faster. The PS4 has plenty of CPU power to not be a limiting factor on decompressing data from a blu ray disc.
27MB/s is the guaranteed speed for a x6 drive, which for the PS4’s unusual CAV drive (constant angular velocity) means it must support that on the innermost track. However, what you said about ‘all disc-based storage’ is mistaken, almost all disc systems use constant linear velocity (CLV) instead, which maintains the same read speed across the whole disc by varying the speed of the motor.
Remember this thread?
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/07/how-fast-is-your-internet/
This comment chain on it?
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/07/how-fast-is-your-internet/#comment-3829966
I was about 40 minutes from Playstation Store to first launch of the game.
Little over 2 hours to download the whole thing. Quite happy with that.
love whinging about a slow download when you also include that you downloaded 30gb in 2 hours. that’s far from slow. try taking a solid 24 hours to only get 70% through the ~54gb download of forza horizon 3.