Originally by: Jaton

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Summary of many of these pages:

1)Terrific lag, slow downloads: this is gonna happen when 50,000 players try to download gigabytes of info. Your $15/mo subscription is not going to pay for backbone bandwidth so stop whining and be patient till the crowd thins out.

2) ...temporary downloading error...: I dunno if this is a general error given by the installer for any problem, but for me it meant that my c: drive did not have enough space for downloading the bulk data (i.e. the client file). It would have been nice for CCP to have coded a USABLE ERROR MSG THAT SAYS WHATS WRONG instead of a useless one that gives no clue. Reminds me of the bad old win95 days. But anyways, most players should not get this error as most people have one big c: drive instead of multiple smaller drives/partitions (like I do). The fix is to get enough space back. How much? Depends on how much data the installer thinks you need for your particular install. 1.3 gig maybe? One of the annoying things about this subject is that even if you have eve installed on another drive or partition, the installer will still use c: drive for the initial holding area (temp file) that the raw downloaded data goes to. I don't know if the actual location of this temp area is the TEMP folder...might be possible to bypass the error by changing your TEMP environmental variable to another (bigger) harddrive or partition. Don't do this if you don't know what you are doing. 8-)

3)You had the classic client: There are mixed statements about whether the classic client can be upgraded or not. Some say yes, some say no...I'm wondering if some of those yes's are players who actually had the premium client but had it set to classic mode. But whatever, if you get stuck then simply unintall eve and download/install the new client. You might save alot of frustration and time by starting over.

4)Installer won't work, tried everything: Alot of these complaints seemed to be posted right after the downtime. When I tried patching, there was only the "installer method" available. But about 12 hours later when I got home from work, it seems ccp decided to offer the straight whole client for download (for installing without an installer program) on one of their trouble pages. This is what I used, since I did not want to have to resize my c: drive to make the installer method work. Which file is this you ask? Its the one that has a _m (underscore M) in its name, right after the version number. But be aware that this download does indeed use TEMP has a temporary holding area for the raw download data so if TEMP is on a c: drive that is too small, it will fail. Also, after the download is done and you run it, it uses TEMP as a temporary area during the unpacking process.

4)I can't run premium, what do I do?: Well I can't run premium on two of my computers either. There is only one client download and it seems to figure out what you need all by itself. It properly installed Lite on my older computers.

5)Do I need the bulkdata file?: The bulkdata file is what the installer would download after you clicked on the installer icon. I guess the thinking was that if the installer was having trouble with downloading it then ccp would offer to let you download it yourself manually. I dunno how useful that was, cause if the installer can't download due to slow internet or a small c: drive, then trying to do it manually won't work either. /shrugs

6)Where is ccp? They are ignoring us.: Umm, I doubt that. They can only help so many people at a time. The rest will have to wait in line. Just like at the grocery store.

Thats all I got so far. I hope it helps someone. See you in the wormholes. 8-)

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