EA Downloader- how to backup games?

Chronictank · 22 Feb 2008 at 01:06

Hi,
Just wondering what i need to copy to backup the games i bought on EA store

Thanks in advance

lay-z-boy · 22 Feb 2008 at 01:12

Technically, you can't. I have spent ages trying to back up my 2142 download as it's 2gb and I'm on 512k.

There is a way around it, backup your eadm folder in the hidden application data folder when the download is at about 98% so it will take a few seconds to finish the download off and decrypt it.

You can backup the full extracted file you download but it will not work as it has to be decrypted on each machine.

Chronictank · 22 Feb 2008 at 02:25

won't you lose the file unless you bought the extended thing tho?

Chronictank · 22 Feb 2008 at 15:20

anyone got a defnitive answer,
i dsont want to lose £30 for sake of not doing a backup properly

Sleepery · 22 Feb 2008 at 15:26

Chronictank said:
anyone got a defnitive answer

Never use that satanic EA downloader again. You know that after a year or so they start charging you if you want to download it again? It's only €2 or something, but it's still bloody robbery.

lay-z-boy · 22 Feb 2008 at 15:29

Chronictank said:
anyone got a defnitive answer,
i dsont want to lose £30 for sake of not doing a backup properly

Why would you lose any money? :confused:

The game you paid for is tied to your account. You can download it as many times as you want.

Never use that satanic EA downloader again.

For quite a few games, that is the only way to get them.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Feb 2008 at 16:07

Start>Control Pannel>Add Remove Programmes Click on EA Downloader then click uninstall

then never touch anything with any sighn of EA involvement again.

Talrinys · 22 Feb 2008 at 16:24

lay-z-boy said:
Why would you lose any money?

The game you paid for is tied to your account. You can download it as many times as you want.

For quite a few games, that is the only way to get them.

You can oly download it for free for a year.

Coolasmoo · 22 Feb 2008 at 18:23

Chronictank said:
Hi,
Just wondering what i need to copy to backup the games i bought on EA store

Thanks in advance

When you first install EADM it will ask you where you want to store the Cache folder.

Select a drive thats not windows, then if you need to reinstall or backup that Cache folder all you do when you reinstal eadm is point it to the cache folder when it asks you. All your games will be there

lay-z-boy · 22 Feb 2008 at 18:38

Talrinys said:
You can oly download it for free for a year.

Rubbish, I've had 2142, NS and NFS:C since they came out, I can still to this day download them for nothing.

When you first install EADM it will ask you where you want to store the Cache folder.

Select a drive thats not windows, then if you need to reinstall or backup that Cache folder all you do when you reinstal eadm is point it to the cache folder when it asks you. All your games will be there

Few problems if you try to do that. 1) You would need to install it to the root of another drive as it claims the filename will be too long. 2)It's much easier to just go into application data and take what's there already.

Start>Control Pannel>Add Remove Programmes Click on EA Downloader then click uninstall

then never touch anything with any sighn of EA involvement again.

That'll be what, around 60% of the games out now then?

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Feb 2008 at 19:06

lay-z-boy said:
That'll be what, around 60% of the games out now then?

Nowonder PC gaming is dieing then, if 60% of the games for PC are buggy piece's of crap that hardly ever work.

Sleepery · 22 Feb 2008 at 20:04

lay-z-boy said:
Rubbish, I've had 2142, NS and NFS:C since they came out, I can still to this day download them for nothing.

Are you sure? The terms and conditions say they only allow you to do it for 6 months, or 2 years if you buy the extended download service.

https://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/servlet...onPage&SiteID=eaemea&Locale=en_GB&Env=BASE#q3

modo77 · 22 Feb 2008 at 20:24

Yeah its not rubbish, you are limited to 6 months to download things

Coolasmoo · 22 Feb 2008 at 20:37

lay-z-boy said:
Few problems if you try to do that. 1) You would need to install it to the root of another drive as it claims the filename will be too long. 2)It's much easier to just go into application data and take what's there already.

Well its worked fine for me with about 5 Installs, 2 new harddrive swaps and i have about 6.6gig in the cache folder

carrot1401 · 22 Feb 2008 at 21:40

Never had any problems downloading northern strike or c+c 3....

NightSt@lk3r said:
Start>Control Pannel>Add Remove Programmes Click on EA Downloader then click uninstall

then never touch anything with any sighn of EA involvement again.

...says the guy with crysis in his sig

username · 22 Feb 2008 at 22:21

what someone said above find where it is downloaded and copy that to a CD or DVD and back up.

aslong as yo0u have the ea downloader installed when you click on that file at a later date it will reinstall no problems. You only need ea downloader installed to validate the copy to then allow you to play.

Ogs · 22 Feb 2008 at 22:39

Sometime after the release of BF2142, and when it became the "EA Store", thats when the new 6 months normal price, pay extra for 2 years, download service thing kicked in. That pretty much made me never want to buy a game on it again.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Feb 2008 at 23:34

[QUOTE='[ZiiP]...says the guy with crysis in his sig

[/QUOTE]

i didnt buy it i won it from a CrysisEU competition

but as expected patches for it that actually fix anything are non existant.