Patching

[Kuroku]

Says around 9 hours left, anyone know what could be causing it to take forever? Or is there 10 years of patching happening? XD

(Downloading doesn't seem to be going slow, the bar on the top below individual items is filling up instantly on the .DAT files, but I guess 24K files is going to take a while...)

[Demon6324236]

If you just started, and are getting those updates, then yeah, 10 years worth. Also, the add-ons, meaning Abyssea, Kupo, ACP, and ASA, are all downloaded via updates rather than installation.

[Teraniku]

If it is a fresh install, yeah it's going to take a long time, just due to all the game's updates. Hopefully, once SoA comes out, it will take a lot less time for an update due to a more recent version being on it.

[Kuroku]

Thanks for the replies.

Yes, I just got the game two days ago, so this must be ten years worth hahaha.

I believe the estimated time remaining is inaccurate, because it's gone down almost two hours in twenty minutes.

[Demon6324236]

Is that for checking, downloading, or installing files?

[Gokku]

you would have save time torrent the updates files hosted on BG installing them and dling a much smaller patch.

[Kuroku]

you would have save time torrent the updates files hosted on BG installing them and dling a much smaller patch.

I really don't like downloading/torrenting anything from places besides the manufacturer. I'm a patient person and don't mind the wait, just wondered if maybe something was wrong since it said 9 hours lol.

[Mirage]

The patch servers are just not very well set up. Depending on your location in the world, your download speed could be extremely low. Personally, I get the patches at about 5% of my internet connection's max capacity.

[Kuroku]

I'm from British Columbia, Canadia.

[RAIST]

Yeah...best I typically get as an average on a long update is just under 1Mb/s on high-speed cable. It wil start above 6Mb/s and bounce all over the place, pausing, shooting through in chunks, pausing. It's all those @#$@#$ little files. SE really should have set the updates up so they downloaded packed files and then kicked off a utility to unpack them.

Compare sending 2000 pictures as a big batch in a folder versus a single ZIP file containing all the JPEG's. Even though they wouldn't likely be compressed in the ZIP file and will still be the same amount of data--it will go in a FRACTION of the time because it won't be stopping every couple of seconds for handshakes/verifications for every single picture in the list.

That is why the torrent or .RAR compilations at the BG forums became so popular. Can download full GB's worth of DAT/ROM files as a single package in no time by comparison to the in-game download.