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Posted October 23, 2012
Hi everyone, I know this isn't really a technical forum but I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. Anyway I recently bought The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, but I can't seem to download it.

First of all, I have a very slow internet connection. My download speed usually peaks around 120 kbps. I tried downloading the game with the GOG download manager as usual, but after a few minutes of downloading the download bar skipped to the end and said the game was done downloading, but that there was a "checksum error" on some of the chunks (can't remember which ones).

So I tried downloading the files manually (with Google Chrome download manager). The Witcher comes in the form of a .exe and 5 .bin files, most of them about 2GB each, some of them less than that. I let them download all night, only to wake up this morning and find that most of the .bin files had "finished", but of course only a few hundred MB of each had downloaded, and they had finished prematurely just like the GOG download manager did.

So are the files hosted by GOG corrupted? Or is this a problem on my end? How do I fix this? Thanks.
Posted October 23, 2012
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JTH: Hi everyone, I know this isn't really a technical forum but I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. Anyway I recently bought The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, but I can't seem to download it.

First of all, I have a very slow internet connection. My download speed usually peaks around 120 kbps. I tried downloading the game with the GOG download manager as usual, but after a few minutes of downloading the download bar skipped to the end and said the game was done downloading, but that there was a "checksum error" on some of the chunks (can't remember which ones).

So I tried downloading the files manually (with Google Chrome download manager). The Witcher comes in the form of a .exe and 5 .bin files, most of them about 2GB each, some of them less than that. I let them download all night, only to wake up this morning and find that most of the .bin files had "finished", but of course only a few hundred MB of each had downloaded, and they had finished prematurely just like the GOG download manager did.

So are the files hosted by GOG corrupted? Or is this a problem on my end? How do I fix this? Thanks.
Have you tried to see if the GOG Downloader checks for and downloads a new update that was released for it today? Also, please report any Downloader problems here:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/introducing_the_beta_release_of_the_new_gogcom_downloader.
Posted October 23, 2012
Because it's not a problem with the downloader, it's a problem with the files (because I've failed to download them manually as well), I'm reporting the problem to GOG.com under the"download corruption" category. Is that the right thing to do?
Posted October 23, 2012
I've had very similar, unrelated to GOG, download problems you're having, back when I had a really shitty internet. My damn net was so twitchy, that it just had these mini connection losses that I couldn't even notice and whenever they occurred, any download that was going on would just skip to the end regardless of how much was actually downloaded and obviously the files were corrupt.

Fixed it by getting a decent router and adapter, if this is the case.
Post edited October 23, 2012 by Profanity
Posted October 23, 2012
Unfortunately I can't solve the problem by throwing money at it, although I wish I could. I live in the middle of the woods in Alaska...enough said? :(

I may have to take my laptop into town, download it there, and then bring it home and transfer it to my desktop.
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Posted October 23, 2012
Hey, I still live in the same shitty place with an unstable and weird connection, just getting a better router and a decent adapter (I assume you're using WiFi?) made things much more stable than before and if this was a normal place, my net would be bitchin.

Alternatively - torrents. Upside is that they don't get fucked up by any connectivity issues, they won't corrupt the files and skip everything, because your internet had a mini stroke. Downside is that GOG doesn't offer their downloads as a torrent, so you might have to go trough some less than legal channels to get the same version Witcher. I mean, you did pay for it and it's DRM free. Legal system might disagree with the goodness of this way (or might not, I'm not good at law), but hush, little birdy. just in case.
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JTH: I may have to take my laptop into town, download it there, and then bring it home and transfer it to my desktop.
If you can find a place with a reliable Wi-fi I would try this.
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