Cant download perfect world?

paradlsee
paradlsee Posts: 0 Arc User
edited February 2013 in Support Desk
alright so everytime I try to download the game all the files appear on my desktop instead of in its own file?
I had the game on my computer before but whe I had to send it in to get fixed the company ( dell) completely removed all my game files and such.
when I try to re download it this happens
pwerror.png
then after that happens and the download finishes the game gives me an error ( forget what it is so I am re downloading it atm )
help?
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  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited July 2012
    Delete those files and use the .torrent method. The fake direct download with Pando media booster sucks big time.
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  • bsup68
    bsup68 Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    The direct download may suck a bit, but never had any trouble with it at all
  • DelovIy - Sanctuary
    DelovIy - Sanctuary Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Delete those files and use the .torrent method. The fake direct download with Pando media booster sucks big time.


    so I just click the download?
    what do I open it with it says I need a program to open this file?
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited July 2012
    DelovIy - Sanctuary wrote: »
    so I just click the download?
    what do I open it with it says I need a program to open this file?

    The link I provided is instructions on how to do it.
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  • DelovIy - Sanctuary
    DelovIy - Sanctuary Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »
    The link I provided is instructions on how to do it.

    yes but it wont work when I try to open it with winrar o.o
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  • CroPsy - Heavens Tear
    CroPsy - Heavens Tear Posts: 476 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    That's not .rar file it's .torrent file

    You need Torrent program to download it.

    Use uTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/

    Everything is explained in that post that SylenThunder linked.
  • DelovIy - Sanctuary
    DelovIy - Sanctuary Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    CroPsy - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    That's not .rar file it's .torrent file

    You need Torrent program to download it.

    Use uTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/

    Everything is explained in that post that SylenThunder linked.



    Does the torrent take longer?
  • CroPsy - Heavens Tear
    CroPsy - Heavens Tear Posts: 476 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    It should take same time.
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited July 2012
    DelovIy - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Does the torrent take longer?
    No, the torrent method is faster than the Pando method.

    1. Download and install torrent software. (I recommend utorrent.)
    2. Click on the "Download Torrent" link on the Downloads page.
    3. Once the download is finished, go to the directory your completed downloads are in and you will see a file named "PWI_v699_Installer.rar".
    This is a compressed file. you will need something to unpack it. (I use ALZip)
    If you right-click on the file, there should be an option to "Extract to 'PWI_v699_Installer\'". Click that and it will unpack the file into a directory with the same name as the file.
    4. Temporarily disable the active scan for your antivirus software.
    5. Once the file is done unpacking, navigate to that folder. (Hint: It should be "utorrent\Downloads\PWI_v699_Installer".
    6. In this folder there is a file called "install.exe". Run it. (If you have Vista or newer, right-click and choose "Run as Administrator.)
    7. Follow the directions to install the client.
    8. After the client is done installing, add the directory where it installed to the exceptions list for your antivirus software. (The default folder location is "C:\Perfect World Entertainment\Perfect World International")
    9. Launch the client using the icon that was placed on your desktop during the install and let it update.
    8b. Launch the client and then close it before it updates, and then download the manual patches needed to bring the client up to date and install them. (Manual method is about 80% faster than automatic.)
    10. Play

    Read step 1 carefully. >.<
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  • snaipper34
    snaipper34 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I did all the steps and it said on uturret that it would be finished in ONE WEEK AND FIVE DAYS and i said HELL NO! b:angry ....ima do DIRECT DOWNLOAD and when the anti-virus pops up saying BLOCK or ALLOW ima clikc ALLOW and hopefully that will work better. b:victory
  • skiller92
    skiller92 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I did all the steps and it said on uturret that it would be finished in ONE WEEK AND FIVE DAYS and i said HELL NO! ....ima do DIRECT DOWNLOAD and when the anti-virus pops up saying BLOCK or ALLOW ima clikc ALLOW and hopefully that will work better.
    b:shocked True tho
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited July 2012
    Torrents will often start up win a long time period initially. Once it finds more peers though it's typically very fast. I can download the full client via torrent in less than an hour.

    The fake direct download is a cloud downloading system just like torent. Unfortunately you're sources are other people with Pando still installed from downloading, and the Cloud storage PWE has subscribed to. For me the "Direct" method typically takes about twice as long as the torrent, and often contains corrupt files because of the lack of reliability in the cloud. (torrent will check MD5 sums, where Pando apparently does not.)
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  • yengcheng
    yengcheng Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Is it possible you could provide a guide in youtube for me along with everyone else, would appreciate?
  • Mavalen - Dreamweaver
    Mavalen - Dreamweaver Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    *sigh* I love these games, they are so colorful and lots of fun. I just wish the direct method didn't use a 3erd party program, I always like to download my games from the companies servers. Then I know it's good.

    Arrrgh I'm so nervous about torrenting the games, even if it is a legal, and legitimate torrent.

    b:shocked
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited February 2013
    Mavalen - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    *sigh* I love these games, they are so colorful and lots of fun. I just wish the direct method didn't use a 3erd party program, I always like to download my games from the companies servers. Then I know it's good.

    Arrrgh I'm so nervous about torrenting the games, even if it is a legal, and legitimate torrent.

    b:shocked
    torrenting is not illegal. It's a perfectly safe practice. Most ISP's won't even give you trouble over it unless you are using too much bandwidth, or pirating media illegally.

    Heck, Pando Media Booster is essentially a Torrent program. It's just specifically created for the companies. The problem with it is that the seeds are not reliable anymore, the reliable servers that the company supports have been throttled down to almost nothing, and the installer is buggy and the company absolutely refuses to fix such a simple error in it that prevents it from working as it should. (It's not that they can't, it's that they won't. The fix is as simple as removing the autorun file and/or programming the installer to execute install.exe.)

    Most major companies with large downloadable clients are moving to this approach. The good ones use their on in-house methods, the bad ones use cheap **** like Pando.
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  • Mavalen - Dreamweaver
    Mavalen - Dreamweaver Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    SylenT wrote:
    Most major companies with large downloadable clients are moving to this approach. The good ones use their on in-house methods, the bad ones use cheap **** like Pando.

    Ach I guess I'll have to decide if I want to torrent the games or not. Do I have to torrent the patches as well? Or does the launcher handle that?
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited February 2013
    Mavalen - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Ach I guess I'll have to decide if I want to torrent the games or not. Do I have to torrent the patches as well? Or does the launcher handle that?
    Th launcher handles that, but again, the download bandwidth is extremely limited, and it goes a lot slower ebecause it's doing the patches in oder updating each file.

    You're much better off downloading the manual patches and working from there.

    IIRC, the game download is at version 676 and you will need to update it from there, so I would recommend getting manual patch 676-693, and then it will be up to date.

    While in this case it's not a huge amount of updates (17MB), a few months ago it was and the difference between manual and auto was about 4.5 hours. (On manual my laptop updated in 30 minutes, on auto it took 5 hours.)
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