313
Steam Wants Devs to Play Their Games For At Least 5 Minutes First (www.techpowerup.com)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Apparently, Valve keeps getting builds that were never run through Steam at all, which is how games end up with broken launch options or missing depots.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

What’s a depot in this context?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago

    According to SteamWorks Documentation: A depot is a logical grouping of files which are all delivered to a customer as a single group.

    In the simple case, that's probably an EXE and some DLLs plus maybe some graphics/music/etc. files (if they're not packed into the EXE) for a particular version of the game.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent