Originally Posted by Tatwi
Well, I'm not, that's for sure! Preparedness does not really factor for me though, as it will take about 60 straight hours for the client to download on my internet connection. Sort of sucked the wind out of the o'l sails when I read we'd have to download the whole thing again. I'll play eventually, I suppose. Woo... |
I obviously can't say anything for 100% certain, but here is a tip you should definitely try with that kind of connection:
1) make a backup of "resources" folder in your beta folder (this is about 95% of the install size - the raw assets)
2) uninstall as pr. SOE instructions normally
3) start installing PS2 when it releases (im assuming the launchpad will do the majority of the downloading)
4) cancel the download, close launchpad, go to the newly created install folder and put in your backup-ed respources folder.
5) start up launchpad again and restart the download. I'm fairly sure you now won't have to download more than about 10% of the gamefiles (some of the assets probalby had changes, but most of them will be the same, and the rest of the files are fairly trivial in size). I recommend after the downoad that you do a "full file check" or "repair-install" or whatever its called just so it doublechecks that all files are indeed up-to-date.
This should be fairly risk-free since you aren't keeping any settings files or similar, so the worst that could happen is that you have a few extra useless files in your resources folder that the release game just didn't need (launchpad might delete these too but im not sure about that).
I have a fast connection but I will be giving this a try anyway just to save me an hour or two of downloading. You could litterally save yourself days so for you it should be a no-brainer. Worst case scenario they have altered the filestructure so much that it ust dosn't accept it and you have to do the full download anyway - nothing lost except for roughly 2 minutes of work.
-Stigma
2012-11-19, 02:15 PM
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