Frustrating to say the least.
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So I, like a lot of users I believe, have been experiencing terrible issues just trying to get this game downloaded. I've had the BGEE stand alone installer fully downloaded till the day of release and then it's crashed and refused to start downloading again even hard reboots. The beamdog launcher has a nasty habit of becoming incompatable with my version of windows after a restart, and even when that doesn't happen it looses the download progress (even though the files are still there) and tells me that there is no space left on the drive and willl continue to do so untill uninstalled (I think it has something to do with seeing the files already partially downloaded?).
Dev help has been understandably slow, but I'm getting rather frustrated at all the different things that seem to go wrong trying to download this. What surprises me most is how many different ways I can seem to loose my previously downloaded data (even if it was complete). I'm downloading again from stratch for about the dozenth time and I have both ports open suggested by the devs (although the speed is still only about 124 kbs. I have to constantly restart the beamdog download too as it drops off and then stays off.
I'm really getting to where I don't think I'm going to be able to download this is any timely fashion. If I can't download it in one sitting it won't remember the progress and even then I'm not sure it would work right. This is terrible for a pre-load and I'm really just wishing there was an easier way to go about getting these files as I've partially downloaded this thing so many damn times now.
Dev help has been understandably slow, but I'm getting rather frustrated at all the different things that seem to go wrong trying to download this. What surprises me most is how many different ways I can seem to loose my previously downloaded data (even if it was complete). I'm downloading again from stratch for about the dozenth time and I have both ports open suggested by the devs (although the speed is still only about 124 kbs. I have to constantly restart the beamdog download too as it drops off and then stays off.
I'm really getting to where I don't think I'm going to be able to download this is any timely fashion. If I can't download it in one sitting it won't remember the progress and even then I'm not sure it would work right. This is terrible for a pre-load and I'm really just wishing there was an easier way to go about getting these files as I've partially downloaded this thing so many damn times now.
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Give it a little bit of time, and I'm sure it will be working for everybody. Once it's working, the game looks really good. Hopefully, in a few weeks, all the frustration going around will be a distant memory.
Really the worse part of this is how many times I've had the re-download the same thing. For whatever reason neither of these launchers seems to be able to get a good handle on what you've already downloaded. This appears usually after a crash (which they do often, both of them) or a reboot.
Just last night I got the BGEE to about 95 % it crashed and would never do anything more than "downloading info..." and got the Beamdog launcher to 50%, but this morning it gave me the No Space error again. I really think the beamdog launcher is looking in the folder and seeing files already downloaded and this is causing some error. I even paused the downloaded before exiting the launcher last night and hoped that would have some effect.
Using a Linksys router (with ports open) and my ISP is Pinnacle (probably not the best ISP by a long shot.)
Did anyone else have trouble with the downloader hanging? The BGEE standalone did this to me yesterday (and last week pre loading) as well.
then yesterday i played with it for about 3 hours before it finally downloaded.