launcher downloading patch

noso2142rwb17_ESO · August 2014

so i just bought the game installed from disc and now it is downloading the latest patch? but its taking for ever but im confused does it download 1% at a time if so then thats stuipd as its taken 3h to get to 20% and i want to play tonight

freespirit · August 2014

There have been several large patches since release, you have a lot of downloading still to do.
In general the patching goes as follows......

Download a bit, Patch/apply that download, download a bit more, patch/apply that bit and so on

noso2142rwb17_ESO · August 2014

ah ok

kassandratheclericb14_ESO · August 2014

You may or may not get to play today depending on your DL speed (and what time it is-heh heh.) At least you aren't trying to do it with everyone else.

noso2142rwb17_ESO · August 2014

yeah probs wont might just sleep should speed up now as its late at night

zgrssd · August 2014

The game is a total of 36 GiB in size, including voiceover files (5.7 GiB).
Most of these files have been changed since launch or totally new ones have been added so it has to download the bulk.

Note that voiceovers are downloaded in a seperate step after them main client and have a seperate progress bar for repair scans and the like.
Also they are not partitioned in any way (4 really big files), so if they do any changes that is always a big download (they only do changes there during content patches, however).
Average patchsize is under 100 MiB, with only first install and content patches having any real size.

Note that the bulk are just data files that seem to be identical between NA & EU client, as well as Mac and PC version (asuming same patch state).
So if you ever need anotehr client, you can speed it up considerably using this technique:
http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1874

[Moderator Note: Edited and added "http://" to the post, fixing the link.]

noso2142rwb17_ESO · August 2014

how many patchs has there been as so far ive downloaded 2 and about 26% with the 3rd one that i am assumeing is update 3??

Ipalon · August 2014

What technique!? Your link takes you back to this post

zgrssd · August 2014

noso2142rwb17_ESO wrote: »

how many patchs has there been as so far ive downloaded 2 and about 26% with the 3rd one that i am assumeing is update 3??

Yes we are at update 3.

But it should not download the 3 patches in order. It just downloads the fully patched files once, but in two seperate steps (vioceovers go seperately from main client files).