Downloading WoW with game client

Noel Gallagher · 30 Jun 2010 at 12:54

I got a question, when downloading WoW with the online game client (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/downloads/client/) do you have to select and install each one individually or can you just select the witch king and play it straight away?

thanks

Bennehmaru · 30 Jun 2010 at 13:58

You can just select lich king and it will intall everything.

PaloPolo · 30 Jun 2010 at 15:15

But it takes ages to download so don't expect to start the dl and play 20 min later ...
make it 20 hours - that's more like it ;D

ubersonic · 30 Jun 2010 at 15:28

20 hours? on what ISDN? the games deployment servers are excellent, I can download it in about 4 hours on a 6mb connection (have downloaded it 7 times thus far due to going through laptops like hot cakes lol)

Btw you can install the entire thing off the WOTLK dvd, its much faster

oli356 · 30 Jun 2010 at 16:07

I downloaded the game and both expansions rather quick. Though I'm on 50meg bb. Was getting between 4.5 - 6.0MB/s.
The thing what took time was applying the patches or something... I was getting 100KB/s then lol

Wingers · 30 Jun 2010 at 16:24

god bless WoW and its millianz of patches ^_^

phatboy · 30 Jun 2010 at 16:31

yep i did a reinstall about a month ago, took nigh on 14 hours including all the patches, the downloader is a$$ when it wants to be and runs at slugpace even if you are on a good connection (i am on 10mb/s)

Wingers · 30 Jun 2010 at 17:36

yeah i dont understand why they dont replace their 1 millian patches with a batch update or something. it would make loads more sense!

HAz · 30 Jun 2010 at 17:43

once its downloaded, avoid using that awful torrent style updater and get all the patched from http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors.
it really will take 20hrs if u dont do it that way.

arknor · 30 Jun 2010 at 18:17

didnt wow get a streaming client? or did i dream it.

i know warhammer did im sure wow got one which downloads only what you need to play and then downloads the rest as you need it

westbroma · 30 Jun 2010 at 20:12

HAz said:
once its downloaded, avoid using that awful torrent style updater and get all the patched from http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors.
it really will take 20hrs if u dont do it that way.

You can disable P2P downloading in View-> Prefrences of the downloader, and it still uses up most of my down bandwidth (1mb/sec)

Evil^ · 30 Jun 2010 at 21:35

Eva01 said:
You can just select lich king and it will intall everything.

+1 on this, if you do it bit by bit you'll be there god knows how long and a day into your trial you'll be bored

HAz · 1 Jul 2010 at 00:01

westbroma said:
You can disable P2P downloading in View-> Prefrences of the downloader, and it still uses up most of my down bandwidth (1mb/sec)

i did that but the most i got was about 300ksec on a 10meg line

DampCat · 1 Jul 2010 at 08:12

On the occasions i need to reinstall i use the discs, then patch from wowwiki. The updater is so damned awful.

Ive never once had it work without the "You appear to be behind a firewall" despite all manner of port forwarding suggested by their FAQ. It's just terrible and sooooooo slow.

Swiftlegend · 2 Jul 2010 at 10:54

oli356 said:
I downloaded the game and both expansions rather quick. Though I'm on 50meg bb. Was getting between 4.5 - 6.0MB/s.
The thing what took time was applying the patches or something... I was getting 100KB/s then lol

LOL :O lucky you having a 50meg line lol, I have a 2meg line and if im lucky i get 100kb/s, normally downloading WoW = <35kb/s so it takes a while. I used to laugh when we got broadband that i used to wait ages downloading songs on dial-up, now i spend days downloading games!

PESolution · 2 Jul 2010 at 13:33

the "witch king" ahahahaha