Hello, I just got the game as part of the stamp collecting deal, and I cannot get it to download. I have a slow internet connection. My download speed is about 350-400Kb per second. It usually takes 6 hours of download time before an error occurs, or chrome just says it's complete when only 6.5GB of the file have installed. It's done this 4 times now and my patience is at an end. Can anyone help me? It says it should take 19 hours to download, so the sooner I can get this resolved, the sooner I can stop watching my computer. Thanks for the help everyone. I am running Ubuntu 13.10 if that makes a difference.

With a slow connection, it's better to use the LGOGDownloader to get the files. It's able to resume downloads and also checks for errors. It'd be a shame if you'd have to download some files again because they're corrupted.

Did you try to download the game via LGOG Downloader(special for Linux) or use official GOGDownloader under wine?

I'm not sure where to find the lgog downloader. Do i need to download it from the terminal?

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/lgogdownloader_gogdownloader_for_linux/post1

That seems to work, now how do I download games with it from my library?

lgogdownloader --download --no-extras --platform 4 --game the_witcher_2

edit: if you have any question, I recommend posting it in lgogdownloader thread

lgogdownloader --help
=> Shows all available options

lgogdownloader --login
=> Logs you in
Then use the download command posted above.

To show a list of all downloadable games use:
lgogdownloader --list

Thanks everyone. Now it's just 4 more hours of download time to wait through. Also, it says it's installing the windows version of the game. I don't need to run the game on wine do I?

I'm not sure about the message, but as long as you've used "--platform 4" in your download command, it should download the Linux version. Though the Linux port of The Witcher 2 does indeed use Wine and doesn't run natively on Linux, but you don't have to install it through Wine, as it's already packed in a Wrapper, ready to play.

The LGOGdownloader comes with a config file that you can edit, e.g. to change your standard settings.

Open a terminal and edit the file:
gedit ~/.config/lgogdownloader/config.cfg

Change "platform" to "4" if it isn't already. Afterwards you don't need to use the "--platform" switch with lgogdownloader anymore, as it will use platform 4 by default now.

It is now installing the linux version. I'll test it before I say everything's good, but I think it is working. I've still got to wait for the manual and things like that to download, but it should be ready soon. Thanks for all the help.

Before I close this thread, one last question I'd like to ask, is whether or not you can skip certain items in the download. I don't need the 6GB's of modding tools -_-

It has downloaded successfully. i have another issue, but i posted it to another thread. Thanks everyone, I'm going to figure out how to mark this as solved.