Problem with the CoH trial updater.
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... download the entire game again?
Hey guys, I'm new here and I downloaded the free trial yesterday but today I realised that when I wanted to play the game the updater wanted me to download the whole game again even though I had already downloaded it yesterday. Is there anything I can do to stop this?
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Are you sure it's just not running through a patch?
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It should tell you what it is doing. What does it say?
Hey guys, I'm new here and I downloaded the free trial yesterday but today I realised that when I wanted to play the game the updater wanted me to download the whole game again even though I had already downloaded it yesterday. Is there anything I can do to stop this?
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... download the entire game again?
Are you sure it's just not running through a patch? |

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*shrugs*
It should tell you what it is doing. What does it say?
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Time can be flexible in tech support. I've lost count of the number of problems I've troubleshooted where somebody says they did something "yesterday" or that it was "just working yesterday"... but the error occurred over the weekend, last week, or a couple weeks ago.
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Hey guys, I'm new here and I downloaded the free trial yesterday but today I realised that when I wanted to play the game the updater wanted me to download the whole game again even though I had already downloaded it yesterday. Is there anything I can do to stop this?
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Okay this is a completely stupid question (well, a set of them), but I have to ask for completeness' sake.
Yesterday, you downloaded the installer/updater file right?
Did you run it yesterday and take "forever and a day" pulling down the actual game files? Or did you just grab the installer/updater and expect to play the game today?
If the former, you may have gotten a bad file during the original download. It happens.
If the latter, the installer/updater by itself is not the whole game. There's roughly 4GB of files you need to suck down through the updater before you can actually play.
One other dumb question. Are you on Windows 7/Vista?
Did you run the installer/updater as Administrator or did you just run it straight out? If you, indeed, did get the full 4GB downloaded yesterday, you may be running into an issue where User Account Control screwed the install up.
Hey guys, I'm new here and I downloaded the free trial yesterday but today I realised that when I wanted to play the game the updater wanted me to download the whole game again even though I had already downloaded it yesterday. Is there anything I can do to stop this?