Keith Eaton
Northern Engineering and Research Division
Stellar Eclipse
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Posted - 2013.09.03 23:30:00 -
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To anyone still struggling to download the Odyssey 1.1 patch:
After trying for almost eleven hours to get the patch downloaded and installed, during which time I encountered all of the problems listed here by others, and tried all of the solutions suggested by others (except CCP, of course, since they've yet to provide a fix to the problem), I finally managed to get it downloaded and installed on my two machines.
First, I should note that my primary machine is a fairly high-end custom-built PC (ASUS 787-PRO motherboard, Intel i7-4770K CPU, 8.00 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics) running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, while my secondary machine is an older ready-made HP Pavilion d4790y PC (Intel Core(TM) 2 CPU, 4.00 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 graphics) running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Both are on a 15 MB fiberoptic-to-ethernet connection with a nominal download speed of 1.8 Mb/s.
Disregarding all of my previously failed attempts to download using the launcher, I finally did the following:
On my primary machine:
1. I moved all of the old patch files I could find to the Recycle Bin.
2. I ran the repair.exe file in Administrator mode. It ran through identifying all of the missing blocks, then started downloading the patch, but hung up at the point where it displayed
(6/7) Downloading patch: 71.0%, 533.67 MB/751.23 MB, 566.03 KB/s
After seeing no change in this for a half-hour or longer, I decided to cancel the repair program, but it wouldn't cancel until I manually ended the task through Windows Task Manager. At this point, I checked to see if any download file had been created, but found none. Next,
3. I launched the launcher again, only to see it appear to hang up again, just as it had done countless times before. However, lo and behold, I happened to notice that the progress display on the launcher simply was not updating UNLESS I HAD THE CURSOR ON THE LAUNCHER WINDOW AND WAS ACTIVELY MOVING IT AROUND THERE. If I moved the cursor off of the window, or merely left it sitting in one spot on the window, the progress display froze (how weird is that?). Eventually, as I sat here moving the cursor around on the launcher window, it finished downloading the patch and installing it, and once again (finally!) I was in business on my primary machine.
So, next, I used the option on the launcher to export the patch file from my primary machine to a USB thumbdrive and from there, to import it (via the launcher) to my secondary machine. Once I had done that, the launcher took over and installed it with no problem (and, oddly enough, displayed progress correctly no matter what I did with the cursor).
Whether or not my experience will be helpful to anyone, I don't know, but I thought I'd post it, just in case. I won't even begin to voice my complaints about the utter ridiculousness of this patch-day fiasco and what it has cost me in terms of frustration; the average reader can't do anything about that, and CCP probably doesn't really care  |