5+ hour welcome back

[Harkle]

ok, ill do my best not to flame here..

i started this account during, i think, DDO's 1st year, been awhile so im not sure on that.
i left to find other games to play for not any one reason but in the early days there was a considerable lack on content.. my toon got to lvl 11 b4 i left to give you an idea of how long i was here for..

anyway.. like any good gamer i have never givin up on a game i love and this is one of them, i took a rest and god save my soul and redeem me, i went to WoW for a look..
"if there was a way to removes memories i would gladly pay"

ok to the point.. i jsut reinstalled from my original disk and here i am over 5 hours later STILL waiting on patching to complete.. now im not one to complain about patchs being big and full of great content, which from what i hear from other players of DDO is exactly what im in store for. /salute Dev's..

what i do have a problem with is 2 things.. forgive me if im out of line here as im not super smart when it comes to compressions and file types but i have 14,000+ files to download.. have turbine not heard of .rar .zip or any other compression format
the main files im d/loading is .dat this is where my knowhow of filetypes fails..

are .dat files able to be compressed? and if so.. why the hell are they not?..
my net speed isnt great.. 1.5Mbps or 160KBps.. and after 5 hours i still had just under 7,000 files to go..

my 2nd problem is "and i don't know if it just my isp, so again forgive me if im wrong"
but why cant i d/load these patchs directly from my ISP.. we here in aus get stuff all for our money when it comes to d/load limits, hell most of our **** ISP charge for uploads, so an option to d/load how ever many gigs of patchs from my isp would be greatly appreciated..

if it got to the point where my system fails for what ever reason and needs to be reinstalled again.. i would hate to have to d/load this again..

so i guess i have a question as well..

Once these patchs are d/loaded, will it be stored somwhere that i can copy it from and back it up on a CD so i never have to d/load this again?..

sorry again if this came across as a flame post, its more questioning after 5 hours of angry waiting..

:(:(:(

[Rantanplan]

Next time use this link (http://www.ddo.com/articles/962)

With regard

Flickenseele

[EazyWeazy]

You can download Mod 8 installer files. Don't have a link handy.

Edit: Rantanplan had it. :)

[Kambuk]

You can download the whole patched client (to mod 8) a lot faster from
http://www.ddo.com/articles/962

DDO does not actuallly need to be installed you can just copy a working instalation from one pc to another and it will go you just need .net installed.

If you are taking a break you can just back the whole directory up to a USB key and copy it back once you decide to play again.

If you know someone who is currently playing you can just grab their copy put it anywhere you like on your pc and make a shortcut to the dndlauncher.exe.

Hope this helps

Kambuk

[Kaerlic]

I guess you just suk :D

(It's great when you can abuse your brother for being a noob)

:D:p:eek:

[Harkle]

Cheers everyone.. good to see this game still has the helpful community that i remember

i will be makeing a back0up of the working directory as soon as its finished for sure..

thanks again for the great advice + links

:):):)

[Ikuryo]

If you have not played for that long you are in for a real surprise. There have been a LOT of changes to the map, not just new areas added but other things destroyed or moved. The explorer areas changed many areas as well.

From the original install almost all of the game maps and workings have been changed. I would be surprised if more then 5% of the files from the original disks are still used.