It is beginning to look as if nothing meaningful will happen until September 18th. It would be good to obtain a pre download and avoid overloaded server issues but if necessary work is being carried out in the interim to make the game as bug free as possible I think that it's better to be patient.
I think that it's now safe to say that the preload date was unrealistic. More significant issues have been in the offing and it would have been helpful if we had been told what was going on at an earlier stage. That being said if it means getting a better product I am (just about) happy to wait for two and a half months. Perhaps we could be told whether there will be a prelaod prior to the new release date?
its the 22nd here anyone got the download email yet?
Probably there won't be no emails before it's the 22nd and working hours started in Edmonton, Canada, where Beamdog is located. It's called Mountain time (MST), lagging 7 hours behind GMT. Try the math for your own timezone or use Google as your friend :-).
I don't expect the mail to arrive before 9:00+7+1 (GMT+1 timezone)= 17:00 in the afternoon here in Holland. In Asia/Australia it will be an even longer wait I guess.
Got the installer downloaded after a couple hours of 503 server errors. Can't get the download going though (server errors on authentication.) It looks like the servers are slammed.
If you have problems to download the files with the official installer, you can try to download them with your prefered torrent software instead. To do it you'll have to login on the beamdog website and follow this link:
It will download the BGEE torrent file which you can use to download the preload data files. After the download finished, you can copy the 00766 folder with all its content over to the location of the official downloader.
Depending on whether you used the beamdog client or the dedicated BGEE downloader before, you should locate the '\BeamDog\Games' (beamdog client) or '\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition\Data' (dedicated BGEE installer) and copy the 00766 folder from the torrent download location into there. You'll probably have to overwrite existing files. Do so as those files are likely incomplete.
Now you'll only have to delete the files 766.beam and 766.status from this very same folder. Start the official downloader/beamdog client again. It will check the files and should confirm that the download is complete.
Cheers, Mortes
PS: for comparison: official client got stuck at 2% for me and wouldn't download anymore. Using deluge (torrent downloader) I was able to download with 300-1500 kb/s and had the download finished within 40 minutes.
My official installer don't work.... ¿now download on torrent? WTF! I hope beamdog fixed soon this problem. I paid for a service that works properly. ¿When a new patch out will also have to download it torrent again? LOL...
@fumy1903 Just to clarify this. Both the dedicated BGEE client as well as the official Beamdog client are nothing else but customised torrent downloaders. The file I linked in my post is the very same file those programs use as well.
The difference when doing it the way I described it is that you use a client software you prefer (which likely is a bit more reliable). In addition you have the option to configure the client the way you might need it as some ISPs are known to throttle or block traffic/ports that are used for file sharing and this way you'd be able to avoid it.
Btw. please consider to keep the torrent up for seeding for some time after you hit 100%. This should help to increase the overall bandwidth. There currently seem to be too many clients at 0% in comparison to the few that managed to get the files fully or partially downloaded.
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I don't expect the mail to arrive before 9:00+7+1 (GMT+1 timezone)= 17:00 in the afternoon here in Holland. In Asia/Australia it will be an even longer wait I guess.
Yaaay.
It will download the BGEE torrent file which you can use to download the preload data files.
After the download finished, you can copy the 00766 folder with all its content over to the location of the official downloader.
Depending on whether you used the beamdog client or the dedicated BGEE downloader before, you should locate the '\BeamDog\Games' (beamdog client) or '\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition\Data' (dedicated BGEE installer) and copy the 00766 folder from the torrent download location into there. You'll probably have to overwrite existing files. Do so as those files are likely incomplete.
Now you'll only have to delete the files 766.beam and 766.status from this very same folder. Start the official downloader/beamdog client again. It will check the files and should confirm that the download is complete.
Cheers,
Mortes
PS: for comparison: official client got stuck at 2% for me and wouldn't download anymore. Using deluge (torrent downloader) I was able to download with 300-1500 kb/s and had the download finished within 40 minutes.
it says the files doesnt exist.
The difference when doing it the way I described it is that you use a client software you prefer (which likely is a bit more reliable). In addition you have the option to configure the client the way you might need it as some ISPs are known to throttle or block traffic/ports that are used for file sharing and this way you'd be able to avoid it.
much obliged for the torrent link! it worked as smooth as you'd like.