Is there a path of exile torrent?
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I keep having troubles with the downloader
Few of my problems: 1) Long "resource allocation". First installer i've seen do this. 2) Always resets to 0%. I think its just me because everyone else is fine. 3) No apparent "pause button" (add one for clarification?) 4) No Peer to peer downloading with the installer. Is it possible for GGG to simply hire/steal/lend an installer from another game such as League of Legends? It would be a good investment simply because... without a good installer nobody can play the game :( |
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You can quit the installer anytime you want and it will resume where you left off. It will say 0% because it doesn't count the already downloaded data.
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GGG's download service is quite fast. You're very unlikely to get any benefit from a torrent and, depending on your connection and that of your peers, the peer to peer method could actually increase the time it takes to get PoE up and running. And if you're after a torrent that gets individual files for you to copy into a directory.. that takes a bit of overhead to secure and is unlikely to ever be an option.
The "resource allocation" is unavoidable. Not sure what it does, exactly, though I assume it is reserving space on the drive prior to downloading with (an) empty file(s) of a given size. Large files take a long time to write (longer if you have a slow older drive). This would guarantee ahead of downloading that there is space to get everything and verify it all prior to installing. I think your best bet is to just be patient and let it do its thing. Depending on the speed of your connection, it can take take quite a while. If it never completes or stops with an error, I'm sure you can get help on the support forum. |
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or try this - http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4137524
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" I don't read Russian, but it's clear that this is the sort of thing I consider a rather big security risk. Any one of the files in an unofficial torrent can be bundled with nasty stuff you aren't expecting and you can't trust your favourite virus scanner to find everything. No official checksums? Don't download it. I'm surprised this even exists given the simple and effective downloader. Last edited by Durentis#4897 on Nov 12, 2012, 11:17:48 AM
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" 1.) Resource allocation will take a while no matter what. Even if you download the entire client, it will still have to allocate space for patching. Just run the client and leave the computer. 2.) it doesn't actually reset to 0%. The downloader starts from were you left off, if just doesn't remember the percentage of download when you stopped it. 3.) doesn't need a pause button as you can just close it and start from were you left off 4.) It downloads bloody fast for my crappy Australian internet. Had up to 10mb/s (my speed quota) going at one stage. I don't see why this is necessary. "Minions of your minions are your minion's minions, not your minions." - Mark
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About the "restarting at 0%" problem:
I understand that a lot of people misinterpret what is going on here. It happens because people don't remember what the old total was, so they assume it isn't resuming where it left off. The downloader doesn't understand about patch versions, it just looks at what you have now, and downloads the minimum amount to get to whatever the current data is. Because it's something that comes up fairly often, I will at some point change the downloader to remember where it started and then clear that if you fully finish a downloading data. About the long allocating space time: The reason this takes a long time is because the patcher attempts to do atomic modifications to the internal file system of the pack file to prevent problems if the process suddenly crashes or the computer loses power. The game is now over 90,000 files and you need to do a file system sync after each atomic modification. I'm going to make the process faster by allowing the pack file system to make a large number of changes in one go and then commit the whole bunch at once to the disk. This should speed up the allocating space part significantly. Path of Exile II - Game Director
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" Can you make this optional? |
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" Why? It's still an atomic commit, just written so that they can all be applied in a single transaction. Path of Exile II - Game Director
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 DONT DO THAT TO MY COMPUTER KTHX Last edited by EpsiIon#3923 on Nov 15, 2012, 10:51:58 PM
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