Long Updates?

[Kieryll]

<p>Ok, so it's been about 4 years since I last played EQII, and I got the itch to come back.  After installing it on my new computer and reactivating my account, I get ready to play and.........</p><p>It's updating. Right now, it's been updating for 14 hours, non-stop, and doesn't look like it's anywhere near being finished. </p><p>So, does it really take that long? Or is there a way around it that I should have taken but didn't?  Or did I just pay $35 for nothing? Because I am not going to wait for a week with this downloading 24 hours a day.</p>

[Galldora]

<p>This sounds like a problem I had a few updates ago.  There was one portion of the update that was not loading properly and I was stuck in a loop -- or something -- and this went on for a few hours until I realized something must be wrong.   I called customer service, and the person I spoke with instructed me to try using the station launcher.   It solved the problem for me.  Don't know if this is your problem or not, but it might be worth a try.</p><p><a href="http://launcher.station.sony.com/" target="_blank">http://launcher.station.sony.com/</a></p>

[msheaf]

<p>Or kill the patcher and restart it, that will quite often got it over the "hump".</p>

[Tagurok]

<p><cite>Ekum@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Or kill the patcher and restart it, that will quite often got it over the "hump".</p></blockquote><p>Yup that has always worked for me.</p>

[Saihung23]

<p><cite>Ekum@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Or kill the patcher and restart it, that will quite often got it over the "hump".</p></blockquote><p>I have installed probably 3 or 4 times over the years.  I have just made it my practice to stop and restart it once every so often.</p><p>Hey, welcome back to Norrath Ekum:)</p>

[msheaf]

<p><cite>Roboto@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ekum@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Or kill the patcher and restart it, that will quite often got it over the "hump".</p></blockquote><p>I have installed probably 3 or 4 times over the years. I have just made it my practice to stop and restart it once every so often.</p><p>Hey, welcome back to Norrath Ekum<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p></blockquote><p>Actually it's <span ><a href="../user/profile.m?user_id=215406"><strong><span style="color: #3333ff;">Kieryll</span></strong></a> you should be welcoming back, he is the OP and I have never left. </span><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /> Would you like a larger cup of coffee this morning to get you jump started? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/ed515dbff23a0ee3241dcc0a601c9ed6.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Saihung23]

<p>Well...</p><p>I don't think I ever properly welcomed you back the last time you logged in</p><p>And ehh....*coughwelcomebackkieryllcough*</p><p>Now to find another thread to make a fool of myself in :P</p>

[Karrane1]

Lol <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Kieryll]

<p>So in general, about how long should it take to update ?</p>

[fawdown]

<p>It is going to depend greatly on your connection.  There is no way for any of us to tell.</p><p>Welcome back, but your really not spending 35 for nothing are you?  We all have to wait for updates, and you will play eventually.</p>

[Galldora]

<p>I suppose it would depend on your connection speed, but I can't imagine it could take 14 hours if all was working correctly.  As I recall, the last time I reinstalled, it took maybe a couple of hours to update, but no more, and I have a regular old DSL connection.  If none of the suggestions solve your problem, you might want to contact CS.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Sherwyn]

Servers are down for maintenance too, might have something to do with it. Anyhow, when the servers come back up with the latest hotfix you should be good to go. Make sure you're using the latest version of the launcher as well, I had problems with it hanging/crashing etc, until I got the newest one. Now, when ever it downloads updates, it usually runs at about 1.4 MB/sec <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Kieryll]

<p><cite>fawdown wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It is going to depend greatly on your connection.  There is no way for any of us to tell.</p><p>Welcome back, but your really not spending 35 for nothing are you?  We all have to wait for updates, and you will play eventually.</p></blockquote><p>Yes, it is for nothing. EQII is a good game, but, it's not worth spending $35 on to wait for 2 or 3 days while it downloads just so I can play. It's already been over 24 hours. That's entirely too long to be worth the price.</p>

[hellfire]

<p><cite>Kieryll wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>fawdown wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It is going to depend greatly on your connection.  There is no way for any of us to tell.</p><p>Welcome back, but your really not spending 35 for nothing are you?  We all have to wait for updates, and you will play eventually.</p></blockquote><p>Yes, it is for nothing. EQII is a good game, but, it's not worth spending $35 on to wait for 2 or 3 days while it downloads just so I can play. It's already been over 24 hours. That's entirely too long to be worth the price.</p></blockquote><p>Then stop it cause obviously there is a problem and repatch unless your on dial up downloading the whole game.If you are on dial up  well  it to bad...but not much  you can do when have to download 12 gigs or so.</p>

[Kieryll]

<p>I'm on DSL, and I've tried stopping and repatching several times.</p><p>Currently I'm at 7.49 GB remaining and at 190-195kb/s. </p>

[woolf2k]

<p>get the streaming client... you'll be logged in within 5minutes.</p><p><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p><p>go here <a rel="nofollow" href="http://everquest2.station.sony.com/" target="_blank">http://everquest2.station.sony.com/</a></p><p>and hover on "get the game"</p><p>and click on "reinstall eq2"</p><p>that's were i got my streaming client. I think  it's still it. note: there are a noted few who have issues with the streaming client.</p><p>edit: I hav win7 (x64), UAC off, antivirus off when I installed it. works great so far.</p>

[Kieryll]

<p>Thanks for the suggestions, but, sadly none of them are working.</p><p>Unless something drastic changes, it's going to be at least another 6 hours, most likely longer. And streaming isn't doing any better.</p><p>So, again, thanks for the help.</p>

[Eveningsong]

<p>It may be a bit of bad timing as well <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.  Yesterday was a major game update and today they hot patched the Frostfell art assets, so there's probably a lot more download traffic than there normally would be.</p>

[Kieryll]

<p>I still have more than 6 GB to go, and my download rate has dropped to about 87 kb/s. </p><p>It's going to be a week of non-stop downloading before this ever gets going. </p><p>And I bought the Shadow Odyssey, too. I'm afraid to even think about getting that installed.</p>

[Kieryll]

<p>Now I get an error saying: There was a problem decompressing the file.</p><p>Any thoughts on that?</p>