Dead Men Walking

Old Server Admin Section => SOG Archive => SOG War Room => Silver Oak Guardians => Archived Topics => The Clean Up => Topic started by: StrontiumDog on November 25, 2006, 09:30:56 PM

Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: StrontiumDog on November 25, 2006, 09:30:56 PM
want the pre-patch without having to enduring the background downloader?

Goto \World of Warcraft\Cache and you will find a torrent file there. Click it and use as a normal torrent and it will down the new 2.01 patch files at 100% speed.

(if your cache directory is not there then do the same with World of Warcraft\WDB and use the BackgroundDownload.torrrent you will find there)

Obviously I accept gratitude payments in gold and silver.... :)

Enjoy.

SD
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on November 25, 2006, 10:29:59 PM
nah i'm gonna try it the normal way first, i'm at 47% :)
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: StrontiumDog on November 25, 2006, 10:55:24 PM
I was at 100% in 40 mins....enjoy :P
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: valtsace on November 26, 2006, 03:33:04 PM
Can you explain how you use the file, dont really keep in my brain how to use such files :sideways:
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Mjolner on November 26, 2006, 04:19:49 PM
Just finished Dl'ing it at 300-400kbs using the torrent..
The background loader just never seemed to go anywhere..
Good tip.. :thumb:

edit: Erhm, ok lol at me.. What should I do with the .MPQ files? :g:

edit edit: ya ya.. think i figured it out.. Just copied the files to the "WoW-1.12.x-to-2.0.1-enGB-patch"-folder in the WoW dir.
lol at me again.. :blink:
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Mazii on November 26, 2006, 05:51:40 PM
How can I see if the download is done?

Don't want to start the .torrent if the background downloader allready downloaded it all.
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Mjolner on November 26, 2006, 06:08:51 PM
check the size of the file..
one should be 36.697kb
the other one 632.340kb
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on November 26, 2006, 10:51:06 PM
this bliz downloader really sucks.
 
it refuses to work properly. still only got 4% clickying the file that u sugested doesnt do anything either!
 
help
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: StrontiumDog on November 26, 2006, 10:59:19 PM
you need to open it with a bit torrent client mate.
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Tanales on November 26, 2006, 11:14:43 PM
like utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/download.php), thats the one i use anyway.

Tan.
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on November 27, 2006, 09:04:09 AM
lubberly, i shall try that tonight then
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Akall on November 27, 2006, 09:39:11 AM
Just finished the download in less than 1hr with and avarage of 350kb/s:D
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on November 27, 2006, 05:54:30 PM
yay its working
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on November 28, 2006, 03:52:42 PM
stil on 58%, think i'm gonna try ur trick :)
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on November 28, 2006, 03:58:19 PM
mine was considerably slower than some of the other guys but i got up to 78% within a couple of hours. ill finish the dl sometime soon
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on November 28, 2006, 04:48:23 PM
1% after 1 hour, hmm, thats about as fast as Blizzards uploads it :S
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on November 29, 2006, 06:43:24 PM
ive finished downloading now. it started "seeding" and uploading stuff so i stoped it. what do i need to do now?
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Padding on November 29, 2006, 07:06:49 PM
Quoteive finished downloading now. it started "seeding" and uploading stuff so i stoped it. what do i need to do now?

Sit back... relax.... and wait until Blizzard classifies the patch as installable, which probably is next wednesday if you believe the rumors :D
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Bastet on November 29, 2006, 07:42:18 PM
It means soon your pc will be able to make a lot of baby wow disks :narnar:
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on November 30, 2006, 09:13:58 AM
so i should i leave it seeding? or not?
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Akall on November 30, 2006, 02:58:13 PM
Quote from: Padding;165785which probably is next wednesday if you believe the rumors :D

They are quite not rumors Padding :D.

Blizzard posters formally announced that the patch is scheduled for the 5th of December for US realms and for consequence for the 6th of December for EU servers :woot2:
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on November 30, 2006, 03:01:14 PM
Lol after 1.5 hours waiting it started going to 200kbs and after 2 hours it was 440kbs :) after that it was ready real soon :D, for fun i have blizzard downloader still on, after 24 hours or so it finnaly hitted the 75% :(
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 09:09:23 AM
do i have to move the torrent file anywhere or actually do anything with it?
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Nefertem on December 06, 2006, 09:11:12 AM
Just DL it with a torrent-thingy I suppose.. Maybe move the finished download into the Blizz folder?
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Akall on December 06, 2006, 09:24:56 AM
I've put the patch in the WoW directory, then switched on the Blizz downloader (in less than 5 secs it fills all the bar as you already downloaded the files) then it downloads a 2 MB thing called Updater and...its done. :D
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 09:40:57 AM
ahh,
 
I "think" mine is all set. it down loaded that updater thing. I was wondering why the blizzard downloader didnt pop up over the last couple of days
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Akall on December 06, 2006, 10:22:31 AM
Well just run the updater then :D Should miss only that! :D
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 11:04:20 AM
i believe i have done that.
 
we shall see when I get home tonight wont we.
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Manny on December 06, 2006, 11:45:37 AM
Fast link to the patch: http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/games/worldofwarcraft/patches/enGB/WoW-1.12.x-to-2.0.1-engb-patch.zip
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 12:30:34 PM
that would have been VERY usefull last week.......sods law really
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on December 06, 2006, 02:25:08 PM
i used to use wowwiki.nl :P they link to UTtwente too (almost everything can be found there ^^)

anyways WHY ISN"T ASZUNE UP 50 others are up allready :'(
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 05:54:59 PM
it would not apply the patch.
 
but blizzard downloader is downloading realtime. so im going to let it do its thing
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: StrontiumDog on December 06, 2006, 06:34:25 PM
if you used the torrent, copy the directory into the wow folder and start launcher, it should reatart a couple times and then carry on downloading a few mb on the background downloader.
 
(when the background downloader starts it will carry out a check of the downloaded files and it will look like its downloading, it's not it's just checking. Once it gets to around 97% it will download the last few MBs)
 
once done make sure you have 4 gb free on your drive and the patch will apply.
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 07:55:44 PM
its nearly finished, im just letting it do it.
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and living in fear that it wont work.
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Akall on December 06, 2006, 08:06:57 PM
Well you would have a patched client with no realm :ranting2:
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on December 06, 2006, 09:16:27 PM
hehe what you espect of ze frensch?
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: sheepy on December 06, 2006, 09:17:46 PM
ffs midnight!
Title: Top Tip of the day....
Post by: Luminance on December 06, 2006, 10:10:43 PM
i'm not gonna waite, gonna get sum sleep, gn lads