Hmmm to keep this mostly clean (because apparently EA is too cheap to hire enough competent employees). EA has draconian methods for distributing its content electronically and I think its hurting its business a little. I have the same problems of DA:I download regressing. I havent tried the safe mode downloading as this is the first of like 10 threads I have read that suggests such, and I just found the option earlier today.
Requiring certain people to have to try Windows Safe mode with Networking and Safe Mode downloading in the Origin client is a HUGE indicator there is something WRONG with either the Origin Client or the servers that contain the data. I have bought and downloaded games from Steam, almost 150, the original Direct 2 Drive, re downloaded a game from the new owners of Direct 2 Drive, Gamersgate, GoG, Stardock (impulse), Uplay (gasp!) and have NEVER, not even once, experienced the problems I am having with EAs Origin client downloading DA:I. Oh I have previously purchased games electronically using the old EADM and patches with the current Origin Client.
PS. I found the Clientlog recently and apparently it seems the download is, at times, getting corrupted which is what occurs when the percentage goes backwards. The Origin client downloads part of the game, runs a CRC check on said data and if it doesnt match throws the data out and has to redownload it. It appears some of the files it downloads are 1 gig in size then runs the CRC check. Ermm if EA were to distribute the files in smaller chunks, run the CRC, then put the files together after x number of parts passed CRC it wouldnt take a week, I am at 5 days atm with 50% downloaded, to download the game as I have around 28 hours of no progress at all.
I attempted to take the files I have downloaded over to a relatives house that has a more stable connection, and slightly faster, than I but it refuses to install because i forgot it required a 64 bit OS to RUN. Wish I could have downloaded it there and THEN run it on MY 64 bit OS here.
To bad the alternative I thought of is illegal, using a torrent client to receive the files as they are divided into MUCH MUCH smaller chunks and hence less susceptible to large scale corruption, because torrent clients only download if they are allowed to upload and that would be copyright infringement because I do not have the right to share such data. Yes i paid for a license to the Digital Edition and the DLC so technically I would have rights to receive the files, just not share them.
Torrent clients are NOT illegal as there is MUCH legal data that is shared through torrents. The free Black Mesa remake is available as a torrent (which i enjoyed immensely), the King James Bible is available through torrents. Those are only 2 examples but there are others out there.
