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Posted December 12, 2014
Can't we just have an automatic integrity check right after every download, at least with GoG Galaxy?
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Anyway, about compression programs, could WinRar and WinZip be totally replaced with 7zip? Is it fully compatible and has it got all the same options? (like self-extracting archives)
Posted December 12, 2014
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phaolo: Can't we just have an automatic integrity check right after every download, at least with GoG Galaxy?
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Anyway, about compression programs, could WinRar and WinZip be totally replaced with 7zip? Is it fully compatible and has it got all the same options? (like self-extracting archives)
7-zip can open zip and rar archives (among many others), even multipart rars lately (it had problems with those a year or two ago), and can create self-extracting archives. It can't create rar archives, but can create zip and a few others.
Posted December 12, 2014
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Maighstir: 7-zip can open zip and rar archives (among many others), even multipart rars lately (it had problems with those a year or two ago), and can create self-extracting archives. It can't create rar archives, but can create zip and a few others.
I guess I'll fully adopt it then, thanks.
Posted December 12, 2014
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phaolo: Anyway, about compression programs, could WinRar and WinZip be totally replaced with 7zip? Is it fully compatible and has it got all the same options? (like self-extracting archives)
7Zip usually does better than Rar/Zip files for sure. Although there's word the bin files are Rar files, what's curious is if you extract the innoSetup information, the configuration files usually say they are using LZMA compression. Course that i think was a new compression they added in the v5 of the setup/installer, and before that i don't know what they were using.

Doesn't help that there's suppose to be a password which seems redundant since you are effectively extracting all the files anyways with no issues...
Posted December 13, 2014
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Landerian: Umm, I'm not sure about this...I'm pretty dumb sometimes

I've finally managed to download a game (8.5 Gb) and the installer won't run because a file is corrupted. The installation pgm suggests I verify the integrity of the seven downloaded files, which I'd be happy to do if I had any idea how to go about doing that.

I can run a pgm to get the hash values for the files I downloaded, but have no idea what to compare them to. There's nothing I can see on the GoG downloader to verify the integrity of the files and I haven't found any pgm on the GoG website to do so, either.

I have a slow, capped Internet connection where I live and can get, at most, five gig a morning without exceeding my daily 250 Mb (!) cap.

Can I do anything other than move one file at a time out of the download location, run the downloader, and see if that fixes it? I'd really like to correct the problem but don't feel much like staying up all night for two or three days just to install the game.
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hamfan761: Don't you have unlimited downloads in the US? Or fiber optic connections? I don't pay for my internet at home, As I use an open network and my mobile as a receiver.
In the US cities where all the people live, they have broadband or fiber, and when I lived there my downloads were unlimited. But now I'm in the desert in the middle of nowhere and I'm pretty much limited to either a satellite or WiFi to get to the Internet. Right now I'm with a satellite company that limits me to 250Mb a day and up to 300kbs download speed, but I get a "free period" from 2-7 in the morning when I can download as much as I want.

When everything works out, I used to get up to 4-5 Gb a night, but lately the downloader slows down and I only get about half that.

Which works great unless I get a bad chunk and wake up to see that nothing was downloaded. Then, it's try again tomorrow.
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