Steam download stable/experimental build problem. Love some help.

[-MadTommy 367]

Hey lads & ladies, i'd love some help with an issue.

 

I have slow internet so I tried to be clever.  Wanting to play the experimental build but expecting to find the servers full, I made a manual backup of the stable build file. (copied them) Then downloaded the 'experimental build'. As expected all the servers were full, all 4 of them. So I copied the backup of the stable build back. But Steam says It needs updating and wantes to download 3GB. This will hake over 4 hours. I know the files at indenticial and correct, but Steam considers them to be incorrect.

I'm sure there is a 'update' file somewhere that i could delete in Steam for it to recheck and hopefully save me having to download 3GB.

Anyone know any solution. It would be much appreciated.

Edited January 21, 2014 by MadTommy

[Deity 54]

All you had to do was just got turn off the beta testing for Day Z. Then you would only have to download a 300 mb file

[twingunz 308]

right click the game on steam go to properties then local files tab and click the verify integrity of game cache, that should scan your files and give you the a-ok from le steam.

[-MadTommy 367]

All you had to do was just got turn off the beta testing for Day Z. Then you would only have to download a 300 mb file

I know, I was trying to avoid that. It was over 400mb and that takes some time on my connection.

 

right click the game on steam go to properties then local files tab and click the verify integrity of game cache, that should scan your files and give you the a-ok from le steam.

Thanks, but unfortunatly it still wants to download 3GB. :( It seems to think 3GB of files are incorrect.

[doctorbadsign 645]

Is there any point? From what it seems all the experimental servers are full. Might as well wait.

[-MadTommy 367]

Is there any point? From what it seems all the experimental servers are full. Might as well wait.

I agree. I was hoping i would be able to switch between the two in seconds rather than 20 minutes downloading the different versions.

Don't worry, after deleting a number of files/folders from Steam and copying back the experimental build files I've manged to get that version working. And am now redownloading the 376.5MB files to get the stable build back. So i'll be good to go in a bit.

Lesson learnt, maybe if I used the Steam's in built backup syatem it might have worked.

Thanks anyway.

Edited January 21, 2014 by MadTommy