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Any place to download the patches outside of the game

MadJack

By MadJack,
Posted on: 2009-08-06 05:15 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I was wondering if there was a source for the updates that I can download the patches to the game without running the updater itself. I have a crappy dialup service at home but have high speed at work. Although many sites are blocked I was thinking it would be simpler then waiting almost 10 hours per update. I think I have the updates through May done.

 

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Unfortunate as the case may be, there is no other place to download patch files from. Your best bet would be to find someone you know that already has the patches downloaded and have them burn their CoX folder to a DVD for you.

-Wolf sends

 

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I was wondering if there was a source for the updates that I can download the patches to the game without running the updater itself. I have a crappy dialup service at home but have high speed at work. Although many sites are blocked I was thinking it would be simpler then waiting almost 10 hours per update. I think I have the updates through May done.
If you can bring a laptop in, or have permissions to install CoH there, you can update one computer, and copy over the majority of the large files to speed installation on another one (having a 4+ GB USB drive helps considerably here). Follow the stickied directions for moving an install and/or speeding up setting up a Test install, except for the Test-related stuff.

With dialup, you may also want to consider getting a copy of the Architect Edition. Cost isn't much considering you get a free month with it and a booster pack, and that lets you start with a DVD install current to I14 at least. It's also probably a good idea, once you have things updated, to back it up occasionally; that way, if something goes wrong with your computer or you have to reinstall, you don't have to redownload everything.

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Originally Posted by Miuramir View Post
With dialup, you may also want to consider getting a copy of the Architect Edition. Cost isn't much considering you get a free month with it and a booster pack, and that lets you start with a DVD install current to I14 at least. It's also probably a good idea, once you have things updated, to back it up occasionally; that way, if something goes wrong with your computer or you have to reinstall, you don't have to redownload everything.
That's what I did, I picked up the Architect Edition. It just took a few nights of letting it download while I was sleeping and i was able to get on last night. Forgot how much fun the game can be.

 

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That's what I did, I picked up the Architect Edition. It just took a few nights of letting it download while I was sleeping and i was able to get on last night.
Sleep: The poor man's T1. (Hey, I paid for a 2nd line in our first apartment for 3 years for just that reason, 'til DSL came to town...)