Relic Downloader , written by retards ?

wombraider · 11 Apr 2009 at 11:23

First experience of this today

Looks like coder was a kid on work experience or a retard

1. It creates a new firewall exception everytime its run ( cos it unpacks to temp dir and runs there)

2. Downloads patch 2 before downloading patch 1 !!!

3. No bandwidth control ( as in no way to limit upload speed)

4. No way to stop to seeding a patch you have already downloaded.

Kelah · 11 Apr 2009 at 12:00

your right I guess it wasnt written for retards

If you right click the tray icon you can set the upload limit and speed.

wombraider · 11 Apr 2009 at 12:11

Cheers

Never thought to actually check the tray icon ( mine are auto hide )
Silly me assumed that functionality might be put on the main interface window

HangTime · 11 Apr 2009 at 12:18

wombraider said:
1. It creates a new firewall exception everytime its run ( cos it unpacks to temp dir and runs there)

That does seem pretty bizarre.

2. Downloads patch 2 before downloading patch 1 !!!

If it's a cumulative patch you'd think it would just download patch 2. But if not, then I don't really see what difference it makes which order you download the patches, it's not like I'd want to be playing patch1 if patch2 had been released.

4. No way to stop to seeding a patch you have already downloaded.

Can't you just kill the process?

wombraider · 11 Apr 2009 at 14:50

Can't you just kill the process?

Yes you can

Tho if you run the game it starts it up in the back ground on you.

Dist · 11 Apr 2009 at 15:42

Once the patch has been applied can you not simply delete the patch installer? that way there will be nothing for it to upload.