Ship Simulator
English forum => Ship Simulator Extremes => General discussions => Topic started by: SSILB - Ricky on September 08, 2011, 21:36:23
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Hi all,
Am new to this, my friend at work has got me into this Sim and he has been running 2008 for a while, him being the old hat :captain: and me the new hat ;D
However, both of our games arrived today, at his house and at my own house, I have had the Steam version arrive (from ebay), loaded the DVD into the drive, installed Steam and now downloading the whole Sim from Steam!!!
4 hours left ???
What is the DVD sitting in my drive for again?
I expected it to be playable from the DVD and not wait for a download to get playing.
Is this normal?
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Hi all,
Am new to this, my friend at work has got me into this Sim and he has been running 2008 for a while, him being the old hat :captain: and me the new hat ;D
However, both of our games arrived today, at his house and at my own house, I have had the Steam version arrive (from ebay), loaded the DVD into the drive, installed Steam and now downloading the whole Sim from Steam!!!
4 hours left ???
What is the DVD sitting in my drive for again?
I expected it to be playable from the DVD and not wait for a download to get playing.
Is this normal?
It is, quiet frankly with every game. After you registered your copy on Steam it will take a little while to download and place the game files on your hard drive, so all I can say is to be patient. :)
Also, your download speed may be a bit on the slow side. :-X
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Thanks Skip for the info, also it doesnt help whne you have a brother downloading stuff at the same time, can see me trying it for the first time over the weekend at this rate lol.
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I don't think it's downloading SSE, but the updates to v1.4. Mind you that the disc version is v1.0 ;)
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I don't think it's downloading SSE, but the updates to v1.4. Mind you that the disc version is v1.0 ;)
No no, that's the problem with Steam. I installed a new game from disk which was for Steam and it said it was downloading. I think what's on the disk are just the files so Steam can recognize and register them so that the download can begin. It was downloading 5GB and I doubt an update is that big in size! :o ;)
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Just a wise lesson not buy Steam based games. ;)
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No no, that's the problem with Steam. I installed a new game from disk which was for Steam and it said it was downloading. I think what's on the disk are just the files so Steam can recognize and register them so that the download can begin. It was downloading 5GB and I doubt an update is that big in size! :o ;)
It took me 3 day's to download Alien V.S Predator 2010 edition ;D :o but Steam is quite clever, it takes care of everything for you and you are less likely to mess everything up , the bigest + about steam is that you can get cheaper games, I realized now EB games is a total rip off over pricing game store.E.g Team Fortress 2 is free to play EB games was gonna charge you money.
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It took me 3 day's to download Alien V.S Predator 2010 edition ;D :o but Steam is quite clever, it takes care of everything for you and you are less likely to mess everything up , the bigest + about steam is that you can get cheaper games, I realized now EB games is a total rip off over pricing game store.E.g Team Fortress 2 is free to play EB games was gonna charge you money.
Team Fortress 2 is free now so they can make you buy items for it.
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Team Fortress 2 is free now so they can make you buy items for it.
Very true im tempted to buy something each time I play
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If the suggestion that this is down to a download for an update that takes over 4 hours, it suggests there was a serious and fundamental problem with this dodgy game from day one.
Quite frankly this just isn't good enough level of service to have this many cock ups that requires such a large number of updates.
I really WANT to like sse and vstep but it is being made very, very hard. I won't buy sse on principle (until it is made to work- properly- and all on one disk).