How long should lotro take to download

Originally Posted by Mulch Join Date Mar Posts 9. It took me 9 hours to download the high res client, but then again that was on DSL Jan 24 , AM Join Date Jan Posts 7. FYI my computer is band new and internet it also good. Jan 25 , PM Join Date Oct Posts 3.

Took me somewhere around 12 hours on my horrible internet connection. Don't pay attention for the percent for estimated time remaining. Mine was ridiculously high as well. Jan 26 , AM About 4 hours Downloading and 1 hour to patch the game to enter middle earth.

Honestly the logging in to the game was my biggest obstacle,Hope you don't have log-in issues. It Wws grueling. Join Date Jul Posts 8. Feb 10 , PM Join Date Nov Posts 3. I afraid it may mess up my computer. It is downloading at KBps. Is that slow? Also, should I continue with download? Is it worth it? Feb 11 , AM Join Date Oct Posts COM error.

If you can install. Fevorah and I have spent hours working on solutions, this above is what we have not yet tried. We need a solution. This cannot be ignored as this is the reason Fevorah bought the Alienware. Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for.

Search instead for. Did you mean:. Fevorah 1 Copper. Thank you! All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution. Refer to the FAQ if you have questions or need help with the downloads. Otherwise, you can pay to have quicker progress through the game. The high-resolution download took around hours. This is sort of happening next month, as SSG announced yesterday that it is going to shut down Ithil on June 15th and offer free character transfers for everyone on the shard to either Anor or a regular ruleset server in North America or Europe.

The files are first downloaded to a temp area -- this speed of this part is dependent upon the speed of your disk drive as well as your internet connection. It is actually usually the fastest part of the operation.

Next the files are "decompressed and decoded" -- for this they are read back into your computer's main memory from your disk drive, so the speed of the decompressing and decoding is dependent upon the speed of your CPU AND the speed of your disk drive. If this is the initial download theses files are then simply written back to your disk drive.

However, since these are large files, and the WRITE operation takes much longer than a read, it takes a significantly longer time than the initial download. If this is a patch operation, the decoded files must be merged with the existing dat files. This means that the existing files must be read back into memory and the merge accomplished. You will frequently see "Applying forward iterations" displayed while this is happening.

Again this requires reading the existing files, applying the update, and writing them back out again. The initial download is roughly 17 gig-a-bytes in size. Originally posted by DigitalImpostor :. Originally posted by Valamar :. Neithan View Profile View Posts. When I check the downloads it says checking dat files.