Witcher 3 Pre-load live on GOG Galaxy
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His Majesty
Banned
Steam should follow 1-2 hours later then.
Hopefully. I would've bought the GOG version if the price hadn't been so shit, but oh well.
Corpsepyre
Banned
I was expecting the game to be 50 GB+
Yeah I started downloading on Xbox One yesterday and even I was shocked at the size.
It's about the same as Destiny on consoles :lol
Darryl M R
Member
Any clue when PS4 might get their preloading?
Same, but then again, I don't think it has much in the way of prerendered cutscenes, so that's going to knock a huge chunk off the install size.
Nothing will beat TES:O for a while. No game that looks that bad deserves that much of a HDD.
Download speed doesn't seem very stable, constantly fluctuating between 0 and 1.5 MB/s down. Often staying at 0 MB/s quite a while.
TESO is same size as GTAV is so I think it's shared first place
TESO is same size as GTAV is so I think it's shared first place
GoonerTRON
Banned
Time to finally redeem that code with my 960. Now to find the serial number.
EDIT: God damn it's a coupon code. Where did i put that box...
EDIT: God damn it's a coupon code. Where did i put that box...
TESO is same size as GTAV is so I think it's shared first place
GTA5 looks fucking spectacular, though.
Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Confirming pre-load being live. Speed is not too great, my max is 25-30 MB/s
What!? I'd lose my shit if I was downloading that fast!
hobblygobbly
Member
As soon as I clicked install my HDD where Galaxy Client resides began making a clicking noise... don't do this to me now. I usually download/store files on my last mechanical HDD and transfer them over to one of my SSDs I use for games when I play them.
Any ways it's pre-loading now and going full line speed for me.
Any ways it's pre-loading now and going full line speed for me.
matrix-cat
Member
Am I missing something or is there no option to pause a download in Galaxy? Never used it before, but it did say it was still in Beta. I suppose I'll just have to download it all in one go and hope for the best.
whatsinaname
Member
Whoa, started the pre-load.
The Galaxy client listed the Achievements, had to minimse that quickly.
The Galaxy client listed the Achievements, had to minimse that quickly.
How many are there? If you can muster up the strength to look!
hobblygobbly
Member
Yep there is no pause that I can see. I tried clicking "abort" to see if it'll resume but nope, I just wasted 1 GB, lol.
Guess I'm not using Galaxy Client, will just use GOG Downloader for now.
I just looked, tried my best not to look at names and counted about 52. So +- 52 might be off 1 or 2 by avoiding best to read names so wasn't too accurate in counting.
whatsinaname
Member
Took a quick scroll through the icons. About 52 I think.
GoonerTRON
Banned
Open world games are usually smaller in size because of repeating tile sets. I think Skyrim was around 5 gigs when it launched.
Download NetBalancer Free. You can limit download/upload speed of individual applications to whatever you want.
GOG Galaxy is maxing out my connection of 5Mbps... which I'm sad that there is no way to limit the download speed with it.
Hoping my housemates will not kill me for hogging all the bandwidth.
That is big ?? for me too, how you release client like this today and not have bandwidth throttle build into it? GOG Galaxy doesn't have it and Origin doesn't have it. I want cap how much these clients use my bandwidth!
hobblygobbly
Member
The individual GOG download links are back up.
Woo thanks a lot! It works wonderfully and I already limit GOG Galaxy to 350KBps.
Agree that Origin also lack the bandwidth throttle limit built into the client. Still it took Steam quite sometime to implement the download cap if I'm not mistaken.
For now Net Balancer Free works great in capping GOG Galaxy download rate.
Edit: I also noticed through Net Balancer that GOG Galaxy is uploading average 12-13KBps consistently. I wonder what CDProjekt wants from my computer.
Probably peer to peer sharing. Blizzard does that with World of Warcraft.
TaintedHotSauce
Member
When downloading via TCP/IP your PC sends acknowledgements that it receives the packets destined for it, hence your upload usage from GOG Galaxy. Nothing nefarious going on
The Cowboy
Member
Not impressed with it, don't like the UI at all and my download speed is all over the place (was sat at 0.2 for ages) - understandable to an extent as its a new/popular game (still, not a great 1st impression).
Also a minor complaint, when you have minimize, maximize and the X buttons in the corner - make the god dammed X button close the app not minimize it - use the minimize button for that (i hate this on certain apps).
Also a minor complaint, when you have minimize, maximize and the X buttons in the corner - make the god dammed X button close the app not minimize it - use the minimize button for that (i hate this on certain apps).
When downloading via TCP/IP your PC sends acknowledgements that it receives the packets destined for it, hence your upload usage from GOG Galaxy. Nothing nefarious going on
Guess my worry are not warranted then!
UI in Galaxy is little awkward to use, but I expect it to improve as beta moves along. For download speed I'm surprised it keeps fluctuating so much, I downloaded Witcher 2 with Galaxy last week and it gave me full speed all the time.
The Cowboy
Member
Its likely because so many are pre-loading, i don't think many people would be downloading TW2 that much now.
Download is missing few files.
batman2million
Member
(Holding)
vandalhearts
Member
Nice. So it begins.
