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hmmm 14 day trial

EmpyreEmpyre Member Posts: 46
in City of Heroes
ok so i started downloading the game client and it has taken forever it's spent like a day and a half updating a 2.3G update... and now it's downloading another one just as big... how many updates are there to get my game up and running... i'm starting to worry that i might not have even a week left of the trial before it runs out... is it just redownloading the first patch or what... any help would be very helpful!



thx,

Empyre

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  • philly4realphilly4real Member Posts: 7
    Longest it's ever taken me was about 12 hours... it sucks but then there have been times when I got the whole thing running in less than one... I guess it's all depending on your timing... but what kind of connection are you on?
  • xxthecorexxxxthecorexx Member Posts: 1,078
    i don't know what happened to their host and patch servers, when i first downloaded and patched the game i had a constant 2mps download, it was beautiful, but a little before I9 i noticed the patcher got a lot slower. *shrug*



    i don't consider this a major fault with the game, i use to play swg.. talk about patcher hell

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  • EmpyreEmpyre Member Posts: 46
    i have a cable connection i mean i'm not on dial up... so i don't know... i'm gonna see if it will run without finishing that patch... the only thing i can think is if that's the game itself... because i downloaded it... but it said it was the updater... so hmmm.. idk..
  • AmarsirAmarsir Member UncommonPosts: 703

    There are 2 steps: downloading and patching.

    Downloading can get slower around the time of big releases as everyone has to get the new patches. Fortunately pre-downloads tend to spread a lot of that work out. But trying to install from base during that time will be slower than at others. It's still usually the shorter of the two steps.

    The second bit is patching, applying the successive layers. That's not connection-related at all, and the only things that can hold it up are limited memory, hard drive speed / size / defrag state, and background processes. It's not quick but it shouldn't take all that long either on a moderately clean machine.

    Bear in mind you are getting 3 years of updates so that first time does take a bit. In my "Here is your Free Trial Information!" post that nobody bothers to read, I mention this and suggest starting the install before setting up the account so as not to lose trial time. A day and a half is certainly long, but whatever the time is it won't be nearly that bad in future runs.

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