Livia_Venus Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 So I started downloading the new patch in the morning the day before yesterday. It took all day to get to about 95%, I left it over night and in the morning it said it had finished downloading but when I tried to launch the game I got an error message. I closed and reopened the launcher and it said downloading 100% complete and was stuck there for about two hours at which time it started downloading the whole patch over again. It started re-downloading at 12pm yesterday, by the time I went to bed yesterday night it was at 70% and when I woke up this morning it was at 75% and it's been stuck there ever since. I know Bioware released a message saying that there was a problem with downloads being slow and to just wait it out but but this is ridiculous I have been unable to play the game for over two days and it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to play it any time soon.
The_Wulff Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) Do you know if you are on the streaming client or the standard client? I haven't seen a streaming launcher since before the update to the new style but it used to be indicated by the letters ST in the lower left corner. If the letters are there it should be the streaming launcher. If you are there are 2 fixes. You can do a repair install or switch to the non-streaming version. 1) Repair right click the SWTOR desktop icon choose open location, locate the bitraider folder and delete it (if you are woried you can move it to your desktop but it will make a new one as part of the repair) Reboot your computer and launch SWTOR as normal. It will do a repair install of missing files then update. 2) Change patching modes NOTE this is a complete download again right mouse click on game shortcut and select open file location open the launcher.settings file in notepad and locate the below line and edit to the below , "PatchingMode": "{ \"swtor\": \"SSN\" }" , "bitraider_disable": true SAVE the changes. Delete the BitRaider, Movie and Asset folders then start the launcher. Both should get you up and running. The repair will be faster. The change will have fewer long term issues but will take a long time. Edited November 18, 2015 by The_Wulff
Livia_Venus Posted November 18, 2015 Author Posted November 18, 2015 Upon checking yes I do appear to have a streaming launcher. I'll try that, thanks heaps.
The_Wulff Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 Upon checking yes I do appear to have a streaming launcher. I'll try that, thanks heaps. glad to help. Does anyone have an actual patch size? It was main assets and language assets so about 10gb of data being replaced
Golarian Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 1) Repair right click the SWTOR desktop icon choose open location, locate the bitraider folder and delete it (if you are woried you can move it to your desktop but it will make a new one as part of the repair) Reboot your computer and launch SWTOR as normal. It will do a repair install of missing files then update. holy crap on a cracker, that worked. Thanks! However if a AAA game company require deleting files in order to patch a game, something is inherently flawed.
LyonDavid Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 holy crap on a cracker, that worked. Thanks! However if a AAA game company require deleting files in order to patch a game, something is inherently flawed. If a "AAA game company" needs to bring down servers for half a day to deploy a "bug fixing" patch, EVERYTHING is flawed.
ShepardSpock Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 So less problematic to ditch the Bitraider version. Did that years ago and had no patching issues since.
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