Please, GOG.com, help those of us who have limited data / limited internet access! There are several games in my library that I simply can't download because they're JUST TOO LARGE. The very best that I can download is about 3gb, and that's only if I manage to get to my local library on a day when there aren't any other people using the internet. I'm BEGGING you! Please cut these huge files into smaller pieces! Something along the lines of 1.5 gb or 1 gb chunks would be perfect! And yes, I've tried to use the Galaxy client, but I don't want a copy of the game that forces me to use the client to install/play. That's why I avoid Steam. I want a version that I can simply download, burn to a cd/dvd, and keep as a backup in my own physical library in case I need to restore/reformat my PC. A copy that I DON'T have to be online to install! I know that I can't be alone in this. Please, GOG.com, don't follow the path of Steam. Give us a choice.

If anyone out there is with me, add your voice! Let GOG.com know we need our games in a way we can download them!


P.S. : The games that I currently can't download are KOTOR2 (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2), and The Walking Dead: Season 2.

I also don't use the Galaxy client, but I thought it had the ability to download "backup" versions that you could then burn off to media. Try that dropdown "More" menu.. I do not know if the client has pause/resume - but if so, that could be the answer to the large files..

Have you tried the older GOG Downloader?

It does have pause/resume, so you should be able to get those large files, and just pause on them as needed. It is what I use 99% of the time for my downloads. Works great.

I just bought Sacred 2 on Amazon because the download is 2 months of my allotted bandwidth. :P

It's the same for me.
There are so many games on my shelf that I can't dl because of the file size (and many more that I don't buy on GOG
for the same reason).

I don't mean to whine (but as every person you've ever heard start a phrase with that statement, I now will), but we could use better compression for the installers and galaxy transfers also.

These days almost everyone has more than enough processing power in order to handle better compression that yer' good ol' deflate and save some space and download time. The bandwidth gain can sometimes be close to colossal.

I know what you're going to say: deflate is universal. True. But it's not 1997 any more, there are other options with almost equally universal support.

How about some LZMA2? Anyone?

I could be wrong but I doubt Gog can resize the game files (smaller) than the dev's put out.

While that is true, most of my situation is my fault. No one forced me to move to the middle of nowhere and if I'm going to reap the rewards of doing that I also must accept the pitfalls of it.

I used to love that game.

I have 1 and 2 on the Activision Anthology. A good deal if you can pick it up.

I also have The Lost Artifact which is kind of a RayMan ripoff but still a solid game.

I would recommend Down Them All!. It's easy to use and you can easily manage your downloads with it. When you don't have enough bandwith or enough time, you can pause the downloads and continue the next time.

Wow.
I always thought I am the only one with such problems.

And regarding smaller downloads. Well smaller the setup size longer you will have to wait.
Making a highly compressed game setup is boring and tedious task.
Game devs don't have time for that.

I have limited data and slow internet (currently 3GB/month with 14KBps speed).
To download games I relay on my friends because my college internet is fast.
I also occasionally visit to a nearby government office for downloads.
They have allowed me since sometimes I fix their PC.
I sometimes ask my cousin to download games for me which I play on her laptop when she visit my home.
I will advise you to do friendship with some university students as most of big universities/colleges have their own internet servers and they are fast and unlimited.

There is also a shady practice (which I is morally wrong) of downloading RIPPED/compressed games AFTER YOU BUY THEM LEGALLY!!!

As noted, there is a choice. You can use the DLer, which generally has smaller chunks for games. Of note though, the Galaxy client can be used as simply a DLer and does not force you to use it even if you DL the game through it. There's a setting there somewhere to back up the game files if you DL through Galaxy, so you cans till save and burn the game files if you use the client (then, even if you install later, you don't need to have Galaxy).

They can. I think you misunderstand what the OP is asking for. He's not asking for games that take up less space, he's asking for installers divided up into smaller chunks.

For instance, take a game like Wasteland 2 - Director's Cut. The installer is divided into 3 parts: a 34MB .exe and two .bin files of 3.9GB and 2.6GB, respectively. Now, presumably, this is one of the games the OP is not able to download, simply because the files are too big. What he would like in this example is instead of those two huge .bin files, to instead have 6 .bin files of 1GB each, and one of 0.5GB.

The .bin files are just archives of the game files, and are made by GOG, not the dev, so it's certainly possible.

On the other hand, those of us with decent connections would probably prefer to just download a couple of large files rather than a whole bunch of small ones. The only real middle ground I see is for GOG to make two versions of each installer, and let people decide which one they prefer to download, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

+1

I remember not too long ago the biggest individual file "chunks" were less than 2GB in size, but I think the new standard is now 3.9GB or so... ?

I also noticed that some downloads are almost as big as the final game installations, while in the past the download files/ installers were generally much smaller than the fully unpacked and installed game. Can't help but wonder if this development is related to Galaxy, since, by default, it apparently downloads the complete uncompressed game files, instead of the old-fashioned compressed archives.

It's not like GOG benefits from this, since failed, repeated downloads just put more strain on their servers.
To be fair, for someone with a fast connection it's only a minor inconvenience to download a few more separate files. But for someone with a slow or unreliable connection, those multi-GB files can be a huge pain.

^ This.
Just pause & resume the download.
Let's not divide the games files further.