Steam - Shogun 2 - Standalone Download?

Craig321

Craig321

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Someone sent me Shogun 2 today, however it's a digital download coupon.

The download is around 16GB, and I'm sitting here on 512K internet.

Is there any way I can download it standalone so I can use a download manager, or am I going to have to run Steam on my download box?

Thanks.
 
no way. steam is a perfectly good download manager anyway really

(i guess you could resort to methods that only captain jack sparrow would approve of, but that doesnt really make like hugely easier as it may not be up to date)
 
ArcAne151 said:
You would need to redeem the Shogun 2 voucher code via Steam.
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Yup, of course. My question wasn't if I could play it without Steam, it was if I could download the game standalone and then either restore into Steam or install into Steam, just like you can get Half-Life 2 on disc and install from there into Steam for example.

AsLan said:
Steam is a download manager. Start and stop the download as often as you want.
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It doesn't do that on a timer like other download managers.

Vtec9k said:
Add code to steam. Download with steam. Am I missing something?
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Yep, my internet is 512K. I wanted something that could start downloading at e.g. 12am and finish at 9am.
 
You can download it on a friends PC and copy the files over into your own steam directory.

Edit: I think I misunderstood, I read it as you having a slow connection. Perhaps you could schedule Steam to open at 12am then close at 9am. It'll automatically download the file between those times.
 
If it's 512KB/s, it should take no longer than 9h which is really to be expected with such a huge file. On a 512Kb/s connection it would be 8 times longer - 72h to be exact. In that case I say - forget about it. Although buying in retail would be an option - does the installation through a disk.

Maybe you should borrow it from someone and use your own key?
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
You can download it on a friends PC and copy the files over into your own steam directory.

Edit: I think I misunderstood, I read it as you having a slow connection. Perhaps you could schedule Steam to open at 12am then close at 9am. It'll automatically download the file between those times.
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Yeah could try something like that, not sure how much it'll like being killed via a batch process though, it seems very flakey on slow internet, especially if you start killing processes :rolleyes:

I've had to kill it in the past, it then thought it needed to re-download my entire CSS game.

Mr Krugga said:
If it's 512KB/s, it should take no longer than 9h which is really to be expected with such a huge file. On a 512Kb/s connection it would be 8 times longer - 72h to be exact. In that case I say - forget about it. Although buying in retail would be an option - does the installation through a disk.

Maybe you should borrow it from someone and use your own key?
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It's 512Kbps, i.e. 59KB/s max. :/

None of my friends have it, but my brother knows some people who do, so going to try get them to backup their game files for me I guess.
 
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I luckily got it cheaper on physical media than through Steam although it installed onto Steam using the DVD which saved me a heck of a lot of downloading - otherwise I'd have been in this boat too!
 
Craig321 said:
It's 512Kbps, i.e. 59KB/s max. :/
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I didn't misunderstand then, that is slow :eek:

Even if you can't get someone nearby maybe someone from here might be willing to post a copy of the game to you, it'd require four dvds but winrar would be able to handle splitting the file and reassembling it and you could send them a couple of euro to cover the stamp/dvds.
 
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