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First Time Downloading from Beamdog? Download the Client!

HeindrichHeindrich Member, Moderator Posts: 2,959
edited November 2013 in General Discussion (Spoiler Warning!)
So... this maybe more obvious for others. But as a first time user, it did not occur to me that I should download the Beamdog Client first, and then use THAT to download BG 2 EE.

I pre-ordered the game so long ago, I assumed that when I signed up to the website, I got the client at the same time, or that I'd download the client as I downloaded the game.


So I was struggling away on 20-50KB/s for almost 2 hrs before I tried to download again using the Client...

Bam! Now I got around 300-400 KB/s.


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Just encase any other newbies didn't know.

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  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    edited November 2013
    I wouldnt, I cant find any installation directory for the game after installing it through the beamdog client and now have to download the whole game again through the standalone installer just so I can use EE keeper.

    Also I was just getting 180-200 KB/s download speed through the beamdog client, the standalone is dowloading at 350 KB/s.

    Standalone installation and game directory or nothing for this game.
  • HeindrichHeindrich Member, Moderator Posts: 2,959
    Mungri said:

    I wouldnt, I cant find any installation directory for the game after installing it through the beamdog client and now have to download the whole game again through the standalone installer just so I can use EE keeper.

    Also I was just getting 180-200 KB/s download speed through the beamdog client, the standalone is dowloading at 350 KB/s.

    Standalone installation and game directory or nothing for this game.

    @Mungri
    Surely that's an isolated issue... Did your download complete? Did anything interrupt the process? Did you change the default settings? Seems like a rather strange problem. I don't see how 2.6GBs of data can just disappear. I'm guessing you've tried a simple search?

    If you made a note of hard drive space, and find you are 2.6GBs down, then the files have got to be SOMEWHERE.
  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    Yea, the Beamdog client is crap for installing the game:

    http://i.imgur.com/LBjsRT0.png

    Does not put it in the specified directory.
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