Download patches for Planetside?

[mgicash]

Hey guys,

I just installed planetside last night and will start playing this evening. I was wondering if there is anywhere you can download the planetside patches online and then apply them manually. I have 56k at home, and I imagine downloading will take forever, but I have a T1 connection at work where it would be a much faster download.

If anyone knows of any locations or if this is even possible I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

[PR24]

You have to patch through the launcher. You can not apply patches manually

[mgicash]

Bummer....thanks for the reply. Does anyone who has 56k at home have any experiences with downloading the patches and know how long it took them approximately?

Thanks.

[BUGGER]

Son, your gona be d/l for a long time, trust me, I KNOW.

[Madcow]

Originally posted by mgicash
Bummer....thanks for the reply. Does anyone who has 56k at home have any experiences with downloading the patches and know how long it took them approximately?

Thanks.

The first patch is insanity to download, if I remember correctly it was in the neighborhood of 12 hours. I set it up as I went to bed and woke up the next morning to find out that my ISP had dropped me at some point in the download, and if you drop at any point you start over from scratch. The last patch was pretty quick, 40 minutes or so if I remember correctly. I haven't downloaded today's patch yet but I'm assuming it's at least an hour, so you might be looking at ~14 hours right now.

[BUGGER]

u had 12 hours?!?! damn i had only 6

jw, for all that d/l todays patch, how big is the file?

[Madcow]

Originally posted by BUGGER33
u had 12 hours?!?! damn i had only 6

jw, for all that d/l todays patch, how big is the file?

Were you upgrading off of beta or off of the retail? I was upgrading off of beta and it was much smaller, but I was having some trouble getting everything to work properly so I wiped it and reinstalled. That's a nice surprise to find out that my final beta was further along than my retail pack and it suddenly doubled my patch size.

[Intruder]

actually you can grab them from another source, bring in your HD to work, install the game on it, run the launcher, d/l the files, go home, copy the whole folder over to your computer at home, and there ya go!.

Found this out as we have a cap on our d/l per month, we d/l it once, then copy it to the other ppl that play it. saves on how much we need to d/l

[ZionsFire]

downloading the firs patch only took me 1hour and a half

[Arakiel]

There's no reason that you can't apply the patches by hand, and patches DO resume for whole files that you already downloaded as part of a patch. The patch program, assumedly, just does CRC checks on your PS directory and compares it to a master list from the last patch on Sony's servers. You should be able to just copy the files over yourself.

[Smaug]

God damn what is with your peoples connections!?!? When I patch it takes like 10 minutes tops..... I have cable but it couldn't possibly be that much faster than 56k....

[Arakiel]

Originally posted by Smaug
I have cable but it couldn't possibly be that much faster than 56k....

It is

You're looking at a difference between a 150+ kb/sec download rate compared to a 5 kb/sec rate.

[Smaug]

Yeah man but still.... 12 hours compared to 15 minutes!?!?!? Thats about how long it took me for first patch 15 minutes...

[Dooby]

depends how many patches you are downloading...
I just got the game and it ended up taking over 4 hours to patch on a 600k cable connection...
It seemed to be downloading each of the patches is sequence and applying them ( due to the patches being 'deltas' presumably )
So although it may only take an hour or so for each patch, to get 4 of them would take 4 hours ( or there abouts )

[parakiet]

what this can't be true!

you 56k should have 56kb/s

so atleast 30kb/s dl!


shit man, 12 hours dl while you have to pay for the phonebill... you guys must be rich!