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[SSILB - Ricky]

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  and me the new hat 

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?

[VirtualSkipper]

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   and me the new hat  

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. 

[SSILB - Ricky]

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.

[Ballast]

I don't think it's downloading SSE, but the updates to v1.4. Mind you that the disc version is v1.0 

[VirtualSkipper]

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!    

[VirtualSkipper]

Just a wise lesson not buy Steam based games. 

[Third Mate]

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!    

It took me 3 day's to download Alien V.S Predator 2010 edition  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.

[VirtualSkipper]

It took me 3 day's to download Alien V.S Predator 2010 edition  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.

[Third Mate]

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

[Stuart2007]

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).