I find it more efficient to simply make a copy of setup.exe then move the directory rather than a copy of the entire temp folder then delete the original after, especially if it's a big game. But whatever you prefer is fine.

I'd love to know who these "publishers" are, because if they really exist, I would make sure they wouldn't get any of my money nor that of my friends anymore. But I doubt they'd speak up about it because it would make them look really foolish, as the whole thing doesn't make any sense at all. I've only ever seen "DRM-free" or some 3rd party DRM on GG's game pages (I know that GG sometimes adds SecuRom on demand), but I have yet to see an indication that "this game's installer is protected by GG's client". Besides, I call that fraud to advertise games as DRM-free when they really rely on the service's online activation client.

If a publisher would say something like what you mentioned above about Steam, I could understand, but at least Steam doesn't officially pretend to sell DRM-free games on their webpages. And contrary to Steamworks the GG client doesn't come with any advantages for the users whatsoever.

Anyway, I agree that one could have found the relevant information elsewhere, without creating another thread.

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This backing up the setup.exe and other mentioned trick about backing up what's in temp are new to me (I know about some files installing from the Temp folder but it never occurred to me to check there during Gate downloads.) I usually just run the Gate installer along with the game folder figuring if Gate ever closed doors one day they would release a skeleton key.

Otherwise I tried all else above. I think what had happened was I tried to run the Gate executable directly from the DVD I had backed the game up too - It failed and I think that fail jammed the registry so that it would not install once i moved it from disk to desktop.

Even easier than that is to just kill the downloader with the task manager.

Aha! Yeah, it needs read/write access. DVDs only give it read access, thus it redownloaded everything. While you can back up to DVD, you'll always need to copy that over to a temp folder on a hard drive before attempting to install using the GG downloader exe.

Thanks, I didn't realize until it was fully downloaded again but I probably could've just ran one of my registry cleaners to un-gum up the mess I made by attempting to install from DVD first.