Downloading Patch....35 hours and counting :-(

[Ize]

<p>Just got a new pc, vista home 62, q6600, 8800gt x2, 4gb ram</p><p>I installed the rise of kunark from the dvds the night before last.  I began the download shortly after.  Left it downloading all night and to the morning all the while checking to make sure it hadn't hung up (may have just gotten really slow sometimes though, would be nice if yall showed a kb/s current download speed).  Before I left for work, about 10 hours later, it showed around 15hrs to go still, I cancelled and restarted and it showed 8 hrs to go.  So, I come home 13 hours later and had to restart pc cause it wouldn't come out of sleep mode, started game....6 hours to go left on download.  Left it downloading overnight...now says 3 hours to go and something tells me that in 3 hours I won't be back to playing eq2 <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" />  This went much smoother a few weeks ago when I installed it on my old pc.  I also installed Vanguard the other night as well but it completed eventually and seemed to indicate the time left in a much more accurate manner *shrug*</p><p>If anyone has any tips or tricks I would greatly appreciatte the advice <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" /> </p><p>*offers a suggestion* I wish yall would come to your senses and create a standalone installer that can be downloaded from higher bandwidth locations for these big "patches".  Your nemesis WoW certainly has done a good job getting thier patches out in alternative manners <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" /></p><p>*bonks self for not including in beggining of post* my current bandwidth with patcher running is only 279kbps, without patcher running it's 1169kbps.  So now I'm really confused.  If patcher is using 900kbps, why am I not already in Norrath?</p>

[Ordren]

I have 6 Mbps bandwidth, and am patching the Rise of Kunark expansion.  I have Network Meter in the Vista Sidebar running and can see that the patcher d/l speed hovers right around 1 Mbps (130 K Bytes per sec).  So, you are correct about the speed.  My Everquest II folder is about 9 GB (and I still have 2 expansions to go), so at 130 KB/s it would take 20 hours to download the complete game (SOE doesn't download compressed patches then install from that like some other games, the patcher downloads the files needed one at a time uncompressed).When running on a Vista machine, make sure you have the patcher set to run as administrator.  If you don't, it will seem to be downloading fine then suddenly just stop (I think it downloads non .exe or .dll files fine and gets stuck on program files because of the safety features of Vista, just my guess) with no error or anything as if the patcher is just waiting for something.To SOE, a 1 Mbps throttle on your patch server really really sucks.  If you're not throttling per-connection bandwidth, then your servers just really really suck.  Most broadband connections now days are at least 2.5 Mbps so you're really torturing your customers when patching; especially new/returning customers downloading the entire game from the patcher.  Also, you should seriously consider a compressed patch file system.  I figure it should take me 4 hours tops to download the complete game if you did it right, not 20; that's just rediculous.  But... at least I didn't have to wait for a dvd to be sent by mail <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />.

[TSR-TrevorG]

<cite>Landrion wrote:</cite><blockquote>When running on a Vista machine, make sure you have the patcher set to run as administrator.  If you don't, it will seem to be downloading fine then suddenly just stop (I think it downloads non .exe or .dll files fine and gets stuck on program files because of the safety features of Vista, just my guess) with no error or anything as if the patcher is just waiting for something.</blockquote>Big thanks to Landrion for the quick response on this.Izern, you may also want to check to see if you are downloading all of the optional content as well.  If you stop the download and then click preferences, you can change to have the optional content download in the background while you play.