I sometimes wonder if people who want downloaders for everything are just using standard internet explorer downloading. There are much better free options out there that will make it so you don't even care if a site has a downloader.

What's wrong with a standard in-browser downloader window?

Sometimes if the download stalls or the browser fuks up you have to redownload the entire thing. Not so with a download manager.

The Pause buttons work correctly here in IE9 and FF8... I can freely pause and resume downloads... This mostly depends on how a server is configured.

(although in more than half of the cases, it will start from scratch, yea, that I agree)

It's slower, it has no resume capacity, it can offer greater risk of corruption. Using a program like Internet Download Manager or a firefox plugin can save you a lot of hassles. There is honestly no reason for me to use the GOG downloader, as what I use already is better.

Can you recommend a FREE and SAFE download manager and where i can download it SAFELY without worrying about viruses? Thanks.

Do you think i will have problems pausing and resuming with Google Chrome?

Chrome can fail a download if your connection drops or something else crashes the browser, requiring you to restart the download if you didn't pause the download before the crash/etc happened.

Also GetRight was pretty good when I used it.

I use Free Download Manager http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

The speed has nothing to do with downloading through a browser. It also has nothing to do with corruption (corruption happens somewhere in the middle, not as a result of downloading through a browser), since today's browsers are pretty good at checking streams for valid data. If a download gets interrupted, the browser can usually start off from where it left... for example, IE9 keeps the interrupted chunks and you can easily resume the download by pressing the Resume button, once you establish connection (but this mostly depends on how the download server was configured).

(the example is what happened to me a few minutes ago, was downloading ~1GB SQL Server related stuff from Microsoft's servers, my connection died, it came up several minutes later, and the downloading resumed as expected.)

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Thanks, i will give it a try.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

If you use Firefox, that works. It's what I used to download the GOG extras.

Does this come with Steam?
http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Silver-40781Risen4-Risen-Download/dp/B005JF4MTQ/ref=br_lf_m_1000716161_1_1_ttl?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&pf_rd_p=1337662322&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000716161&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1MMZR9XT1FQBHE2HBGVB

Risen Download for 5.99 USD on Amazon.com.

The game is available at Direct2Drive too, so probably not.

No. I bought it earlier in the week when it first went on sale, and there is no Steam involved. It does require TAGES activation though, but so do all other digital versions as far as I know. Otherwise, it is a download of the installation files and nothing more.

Also, Turbine is having their daily deals for their online stores, started a on the 8th I think. New deals every day in the game stores (some are more for the hardcore VIPs and some are more for F2P folks). Also, they're doing their massive bonus points deal right now (it's not quite as good as in July but still pretty good). They do the bonus points 2-3 times a year so don't get too worked up over this one if you'd rather do something else with your December cash.