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TurtlePilot

Update keeps infinitely downloading over and over from 0-100%

The last update has prevented me from playing on source 1 or 2. i've tried resetting steam multiple times. i have to shut down steam otherwise it will continue to download over and over and take up bandwidth. i let it cycle about 5 times over the course of 3 hours even to no affect. what should i do?

EDIT - Reinstalling Dota 2 fixed my problem, although it takes a while since you have to reinstall reborn as well. However, I still get better performance when running on Source 1, even with higher graphical settings. And yes I'm running 64bit Dx11.

Posted Jun 19, 2015, 5:30 AM UTC · edited

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Nerovinsar•

Have you tried reinstalling the game?

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santulli22•

Only solution i found was reinstalling the game.

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TurtlePilotOPheh•

thats what im the process of doing right now but its gonna be a while.

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Flinchkopf•

Same problem. Over and over again downloading....

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jeozerkz•

same here someone help

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Apollonoir•

I have this same problem! I have no idea why!

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dankq•

Same thing's happening to me, I just put it on pause because until this gets fixed I can't load reborn anyways.

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papercut03•

any updates on your situation? My friend is experiencing the same thing

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TurtlePilotOPheh•

trying to reinstall dota now to see if it helps. doesn't seem like it's a super common issue so hopefully we can find a fix :/ ill let you know if anything works

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JournaIist•

Me and my brother have the same problem. Just stuck in a re-downloading cycle although I'm not sure it's redownloading the 7.1 gb or something else (it goes a lot faster than the 1st time). Dota 2 generally won't open at all. If I try to open dota reborn from it's own folder the video will launch but it chashes as soon as it gets to the loading screen. Any solutions yet?

PS it worked fine (both the original and reborn) for the first little while after the original dl

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TurtlePilotOPheh•

reinstalling is the only solution I found

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onikrulz•

You completed the 5gb update 5 times?

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TurtlePilotOPheh•

yup. tried resetting computer and steam. i should also mention pre-update source 2 was running worse than source 1, even after i ensured it was running through 64-bit and whatnot. and that was with lower graphic settings than what i had in source 1...

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Luxon31•

Could you check the size of your dota folder? Just curious if it gets deleted or new ones are getting added.

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Fight4Glory•

New data gets added as you keep downloading. Heppened to me yesterday when I was trying to download Dota2 Reborn. My Dota folder had like 50GB and I couldn't managed to get that shit fully downloaded and installed. I had to reinstall the game.

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