To reproduce: - Turn off or disconnect your internet - Put steam in offline mode (or restart PC and it will ask you to put steam in offline mode) - Open the rF2 Launcher - Watch the content in the installed folder: vehicles, tracks and race-events. - Close the launcher - and open the launcher again. That will remove the rest. - Reconnect your internet and put steam in online mode again. - Open the rF2 launcher and get some coffee.
I am not sure if it downloads again the content, may be it reads that content needs to be checked again, and compares all local content of cache against remote content. Annoying for sure. Cheers.
Besides the reported bug, it is clear that this automatic subscription system is not functional for many. - It makes the first installing process a nightmare for slow connection users. - Opening single player mode takes considerably longer when so much content is automatically installed. - The sensation of lack of control of what is installed in your hard drive is absolute. - significant disk space waste with cache files. Hopefully, this will be addressed soon as Marcel suggested recently. It was quite surprising for me to see how after a very polite and reasoned argument of a user, the reply was that he was right and changes were being made. Before that many users, including myself, protested about the system and we were dismissed in not a very polite way. Especially by one of the devs who shouldn't be assuming public relatiosnhip roles. I must say that I am glad of the new rF2 way if doing things. I Enviado desde mi ONE A2001 mediante Tapatalk
I'm checking this right now.... Thank you for your very detailed report Gysbers. @Euskotracks please make a separate thread if you want to report other issues, thanks.
I followed exactly your steps (except I already had my coffee this morning ) However I'm not able to get this to happen as you describe. You have Steam/rF2 installed in your D drive, is that right?
I would recommend watching the video to properly understand and reproduce the issue. The step guide is not 100% accurately describing what goes on in the video. Nothing is said about the message saying "downloading XX items" which js skipped and seems to be provoking the massive content uninstall. Enviado desde mi ONE A2001 mediante Tapatalk
The bug is only valide for items you got from the workshop and are not connected to any other items: like server Vmods or Race-Events you've created yourself. Yes, I've the steam-content folder on my D-drive. If you watch the video from 25:30. you'll see the content disapearing in 2 steps. First Launche: - The content not connected to the ISI race-events gets removed. Like the Flat6 mod, Bugatti track... - and the workshop RaceEvents get removed On second launche: The rest gets removed. (Because there are no race-events linked to them no more)
BTW: I think Euskostracks made a point. In offline mode there is a pop up trying to download mods which i need to close manually and the steam sync is running. If the steam-crew could prevent that from happening, i think it's fixed. Offline is offline: no need to download or sync anything.
Just a quick update on this issue, we now have a fix that will go in next release. Thanks also to Gysbers for helping out with testing this issue
First if all I would like to say that I selected this thread but it could have fit in two other threads since they are inter-related. Christopher has just announced a fix for the reported bug. In case it got a bit buried by other threads I bump it and use it as an example in the message I would like to transmit. It is expected that, sooner or later, a specific studio-397 rF2 forum will be created. Clearly rF2 is a mature software where most important bugs have been already sorted. I would expect that the relationship between the communjty and studio-397 and the community to be more mature as well, with a well organised and moderated forum as a base platform. I would expect an official response from the devs to every bug report. This is what I usually get from other software companies when I report some problem. The evaluation of the reported item is responsibility of studio-397 and we should accept their diagnosis or provide more evidence to help reproducing or understanding tbe bug itself. Road map should be sticky and be uodated with the topics being worked at and bug fixes like this one. A clean forum is an opportunity for rethinking stablshed things that passes very seldomly. We should take it. Enviado desde mi ONE A2001 mediante Tapatalk
Will this fix also make the workshop stop deleting items from your PC if they are removed from the workshop?
That's not a bug, and it's not something we control, if someone deletes a Workshop item then Steam/Valve will remove it from your install.
It kinda suck, I had a Magny Cours installed and it had a DMCA warning in the workshop. I guess it was deleted and it's gone from my PC too, not a fan of this
So this means anything you get off Steam workshop you need to backup. Repack in a different name and config before you re-install it otherwise it will just uninstall again. Will Mazeo] Your right, Not a fan of this either.!!!
No need to explain. The OP isn't about DCMA content or content been removed from the workshop. But if you want my opion on this. If it's removed from the workshop by the author. It's for a reason...