CRPGs are actually unique in that they have a huge European and Asian following. Right now I'd say our sales are evenly split between NA and Europe, Germany in particular.
I imagine that by then they will have a better data structure set up, guided by what has been happening now. Also a 500 Mb file is easier for thousands of people to get then a 1.9 Gb file for those same thousands of people.
I am downloading at a whopping 4 B/s at this rate it will be a month for the pre-load to complete :P i's this site all my other connections hit at least 5 Meg per second...oops it just jumped up to 300 B/s so it might only take weeks not months
For anyone still having problems with "Getting Download Info...", if you delete the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition folder from Program Files, then reinstall from BGEEInstaller.exe, that fixed the issue for me. You may need to log out or reboot your computer as the file may be locked.
Also, Phil, for the sake of ease-of-use for newer players, when BG:EE is installed, could it create shortcuts to the manuals in the Program Files group? Currently it just creates shortcuts to the launcher and website.
@PhillipDaigle My preload won't get past "Getting download info", is something wrong? Or are the servers for the standalone launcher just broken at the moment?
For those having problems downloading, I suggest using the method suggeste by Mortes on the Pre-load thread.
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
@PhillipDaigle I suggest to add this quote to the first post. ^^
Using BitTorrent I was able to download with my maximum bandwith (about 900 Kb/s). I'll seed until the release time.
I've tried both the Beamdog client and the direct torrent and neither are working very well for me. Using the direct link, I'm sitting at 18B/s currently which is not promising at all, and spiked at 4Mb/s for a second about an hour ago, but that's as good as it's been! The client was even worse :S
The BGEE updater was pretty worthless, but BitTorrent got the whole package downloaded in just over 20 minutes for me. Instead of at most 90 kB/s, the download peaked at around 4 MB/s.
Now I'm just seeding at around 500 kB/s for the rest of y'all. Hope I'm doing some good. :P
The BGEE updater was pretty worthless, but BitTorrent got the whole package downloaded in just over 20 minutes for me. Instead of at most 90 kB/s, the download peaked at around 4 MB/s.
Now I'm just seeding at around 500 kB/s for the rest of y'all. Hope I'm doing some good. :P
The BGEE updater was pretty worthless, but BitTorrent got the whole package downloaded in just over 20 minutes for me. Instead of at most 90 kB/s, the download peaked at around 4 MB/s.
Now I'm just seeding at around 500 kB/s for the rest of y'all. Hope I'm doing some good. :P
Uninstalling and installing again does not help. Sometimes it get stuck at "downloading info" sometimes at 60 mb, some times at 512 kb. If it once stopps by itself, it will never download or change mb count.
I'm done. Had to uninstall and re-install the BGEE launcher and then wait about 6 hours for it to download. It mostly transferred at less than 1kb/s and then randomly hit 1.4mb/s and stayed there.
:-/ torrent downloaded. 07766-folder copied into BGEE/Data-folder. there are, however, no 766.beam and 766.status files to delete. Starting BGEE-installer wants login and throws "verfify due to server error" error and does not check for files. guess i have to be logged in for the installer to check the files?
:-/ torrent downloaded. 07766-folder copied into BGEE/Data-folder. there are, however, no 766.beam and 766.status files to delete. Starting BGEE-installer wants login and throws "verfify due to server error" error and does not check for files. guess i have to be logged in for the installer to check the files?
Yes it won't have those files until you've logged in. Our new server is coming online in a few hours and should help things out considerably.
The BGEE updater was pretty worthless, but BitTorrent got the whole package downloaded in just over 20 minutes for me. Instead of at most 90 kB/s, the download peaked at around 4 MB/s.
Now I'm just seeding at around 500 kB/s for the rest of y'all. Hope I'm doing some good. :P
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i's this site all my other connections hit at least 5 Meg per second...oops it just jumped up to 300 B/s so it might only take weeks not months
Also, Phil, for the sake of ease-of-use for newer players, when BG:EE is installed, could it create shortcuts to the manuals in the Program Files group? Currently it just creates shortcuts to the launcher and website.
Reinstall BGEEInstaller.exe again, leaving use P2P enabled.
Also verify that BGEE launcher is allowed through your firewall.
Now I'm just seeding at around 500 kB/s for the rest of y'all. Hope I'm doing some good. :P
I am a bit tired and cant focus and I would appreciate some help!
Thanks!
Google is your friend here mate - go hunting and it shouldn't be too long before you're up and downloading.
Also - Yay! My Pre-loads finished!
@railon You have to login in the Beamdog page to have access to the .torrent file as well.