NC Launcher updating slowly
So, do you all think that is what's going on, or do you think it could be something different?
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I try to only update one thing at a time, if for no other reason than to rule out questions like this.
I'd suggest updating your firewall/anti-virus first, then Windows, then CoH.
You should get much better speeds, enough to were updating separately will very likely be faster than trying to update at the same time.
The download of I21 seems to be progressing a lot faster than the "time remaining" is indicating. When I first created this thread, it was at 20% downloaded. I turned my computer back on at about 9:00 AM Eastern this morning, and after running continuously since then, the download is now 60% complete.
I'm beginning to think that the "time remaining" display is simply bugged, since the actual pace of the download seems a lot more reasonable than the "184:22 remaining" that it's claiming.
Currently published Mission Architect arcs:
Arc ID# 70466: From the Abyss.
Arc ID# 403174: The Serpent's Revenge.
Arc ID# 534236: The Clockwork Angel.
I have the same problem, and I know that I'm not the only one. Some patches download at normal speed (which is 1MB/sec in my case), and some others download between 20KB/sec and 70KB/sec.
I don't know what causes this, as sometimes when I'm downloading at full speed, other players I know have the problem, and vice versa.
And by the way, I had the bug for the I21 release; it took me 2 days to fully download it.
This will likely make me sound like a complete idiot, but as the download approaches 88% completion, I realized I've been reading the display wrong this whole time.
At first it looked like it measured the time remaining as hours:minutes. But it's actually minutes:seconds. So the 780 hours I mentioned in the original post was actually 780 minutes.
Oh, well, at least I'll be able to get in-game a lot sooner than I originally feared.
Currently published Mission Architect arcs:
Arc ID# 70466: From the Abyss.
Arc ID# 403174: The Serpent's Revenge.
Arc ID# 534236: The Clockwork Angel.
I'm creating this thread because I am having problems with the NCSoft Launcher. Right now, I am downloading the patch for I21. The reason I haven't done so already is because about a week before I21 was to launch, the power supply on my computer blew, and between many different Real Life committments, I've only just now gotten it replaced.
The problem is, the download is progressing very slowly. As of this post, it is 20% complete, downloading at 43 KB/s, with 780 hours remaining. But the time it displays varies from the low hundreds to the mid thousands depending on what I'm doing.
I'm hoping that the problem is simply that my computer's processing power is being divided between updating City of Heroes and my other programs (including Windows and my Firewall/Antivirus, now at 55% and 41%, respectively) also having a month's worth of patches to get caught up on. If that's the case, then do you think I should just stop the download of I21, then resume it when my computer's other updates are finished?
So, do you all think that is what's going on, or do you think it could be something different?
Currently published Mission Architect arcs:
Arc ID# 70466: From the Abyss.
Arc ID# 403174: The Serpent's Revenge.
Arc ID# 534236: The Clockwork Angel.