Problems with client.

viralinsanity
viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
edited August 2008 in General Discussion
I download the client and it takes ages then when it finally finished if I try and extract it, it says the files are corrupt, so I re-downloaded it, says the same files are corrupt, I'm using the official download and the downloader_v2.

I've had a beta key for about 2 months now.
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  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Read this FAQ, it has some methods to fix that
    PW has been endless frustration for me #2
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  • viralinsanity
    viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    Read this FAQ, it has some methods to fix that

    That would involve re-downloading all the parts that are corrupt.. basicly re-download a 3rd time.. because all the parts that are corrupt are the biggest parts -.-. also I HATE torrents because I'm behind 3 routers and a NAT conversion gateway, so they are hell to setup.
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Well, do as you please. Torrent only redownloads parts of files, not the entire file. And it's the only way for you to not re-download everything a 3rd time
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  • viralinsanity
    viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    Well, do as you please. Torrent only redownloads parts of files, not the entire file. And it's the only way for you to not re-download everything a 3rd time

    I didn't think it was possible to download part of a .cab because of there compression type
  • ryuuzaki
    ryuuzaki Posts: 680 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    First - have you tried an updated decompression program? Which one(s) are you using, and what version?

    Second - have you tried extracting just one file at a time from within the archive, instead of all at once?
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  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    viralinsanity wrote: »
    I didn't think it was possible to download part of a .cab because of there compression type
    Well, it is. Torrent sees the files as a constant flow of data. It divides it into parts and each part has it's unique checksum. This all is defined inside the torrent.

    So when it checks the file, it compares every pieces checksum with the ones you have. If it doesn't match, it marks it as "not (correctly) downloaded" and proceeds to download it.
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  • viralinsanity
    viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    ryuuzaki wrote: »
    First - have you tried an updated decompression program? Which one(s) are you using, and what version?

    Second - have you tried extracting just one file at a time from within the archive, instead of all at once?

    I'm using latest vers of winrar 3.71

    and no I haven't tried extracting files 1 at a time.
  • ryuuzaki
    ryuuzaki Posts: 680 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    viralinsanity wrote: »
    I'm using latest vers of winrar 3.71

    and no I haven't tried extracting files 1 at a time.

    Alright, open the archive in WinRAR, right-click and extract each of the data#.pck files one at a time. Or you can just click and drag the files out into a folder. Let us know if you have any problems with particular files.
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  • lipe124
    lipe124 Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    if you have winrar 3.71 its should work, if it doesnt use the torrent to repair the missing sections from the zip file. Next time be smart and use the torrent before you even think of using normal methods.
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  • viralinsanity
    viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    lipe124 wrote: »
    if you have winrar 3.71 its should work, if it doesnt use the torrent to repair the missing sections from the zip file. Next time be smart and use the torrent before you even think of using normal methods.

    My torrent says all my files are fine and if I try and extract them one by one, it still says the files are corrupt.. any ideas?
    Also its not my computer, I have windows XP sp 2 only 1 account and its administrator.
    2.01Ghz processor 2.5 gigs of ram, about 800 gigs of free space :P top of the range anti-spy, ad and virus ware that I helped code >.>
  • ryuuzaki
    ryuuzaki Posts: 680 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Which files in particular does it say are corrupt? All of the data#.pck files?
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  • viralinsanity
    viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    ryuuzaki wrote: »
    Which files in particular does it say are corrupt? All of the data#.pck files?

    yes. why? also apparently my message reply is to short, oh and by the way I've played other versions of perfect world before :P


    NEVERMIND: I edited some of my system files to change the way my computer handled different file exstensions and I forgot to change it back :P it was confusing winrar, sorry :P you can close thread, I feel like an idiot now
  • ryuuzaki
    ryuuzaki Posts: 680 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Lol, interesting... did you have *.pck files assigned to a different program, or *.zip files? I'd like to know what happened, on the off-chance it happens to someone else. But good job on figuring it out! ^_^
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  • viralinsanity
    viralinsanity Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    lol, it wont happen to anyone else, I had every file type set to ignore all associations with programs except one, because I was testing a nw interface and it wasn't recognising my file types :P I'm suprised my IE was working LOL

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