Whats the longest you've ever waited for a game to finish installing?

[Shakadi]

Also, include how long it takes to update the game if the latest patches are required.

I would have to say around 4 hours. It took about an hour to install the game, and about 3 hours to download and install the patch. Ugh, the torture...

[DOOM_GOAT]

Hmm. I think the longest was when I installed Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear on my old P2 233MHz. That was about 3 hours, and after all that it ran like crap.

[Nephil]

Definitely the whole "STEAM"-thing. Took me about a week to get it installed properly, I downlaoded the smallest installer (around 4 MB), the medium one (around 130 MB) and the biggest one (around 800 MB) at least once. I installed it, and reinstalled it, and reinstalled it, and it wouldn't work. After a week or so, I could finally play a match with a friend!

[sLydE]

Alice, the installer was pretty straight forward, but i kept getting this cd read error, took me about a week, and some all new cd-rom drivers to figure out what the hell was going on

[Ninja_of_DooM]

10 minutes. Unreal II is sooooo slow.

[BlackFyre]

Everquest, when I used to use dial up. Gads, the agony. *bug*

[Shakadi]

It requires an internet connection to install Everquest? I've never played the game, but that definatley sounds strange for a game.

Unless it was the patches you were talking about.

[MasterOfPuppets]

final fantasy 11. 6 discs, a little less than 6 gigs, and 3 hours

[Exl]

Red Alert 2. The countless retries and the semi-corrupted CD-ROM made it almost 3 hours. It sucks seeing the progress bar get stuck at 100% for the other 2/3 of the installation too.

[Nomad]

It requires an internet connection to install Everquest? I've never played the game, but that definatley sounds strange for a game.

Back when Everquest was younger, It was only available from their website, I believe.

Ragnarok Online took me about two hours to wait in the queue line at FilePlanet, then it took 45 minutes to download, then an hour and a half to install. :S I can't really say it was worth it, since the servers were laggy as hell and made it almost unplayable. I played for about a month, then they went commercial. I decided with how little they had added to the game (compared to the Chinese and Korean versions), that it wasn't worth what they wanted. So, that was a month of work down the drain :-/

[Geedougg]

Total Annihilation: It Took The Better Part Of An Hour.

[DOOM_GOAT]

That's sad considering the whole installed game is only 16Mb.

[HyperFlash]

I tried to download a demo of Resident Evil 3. It took 6 hours! And once it was done, it ran slower than molases in January.

[Sargeant Cliff]

i thought i was the only one who had to wait a long time for something to download then in the end, it dont work ... well id say ... right now.. im downloading a total conversion to doom ... its called " ZooW " i got 6 hours remaining ... im gonna chop somebodies head off if it dont run properly. my modem is 56k so it explains itself.

[Shakadi]

final fantasy 11. 6 discs, a little less than 6 gigs, and 3 hours

That's what my longest wait time was! lol! But I only have 5 discs, where'd you get the 6th one?

It requires an internet connection to install Everquest? I've never played the game, but that definatley sounds strange for a game.

Back when Everquest was younger, It was only available from their website, I believe.


Ah. That's the first time I have ever heard of a game go from a free, unknown game to the #1 MMORPG of all time. Untill Final Fantasy 11, that is. :D

[Geedougg]

That's sad considering the whole installed game is only 16Mb.
Interesting you should say that, because my Total Annihilation folder was over 100 times that (close to 2 gigs) the last time I was backing it up. It took 2 FULLY-PACKED CDs that are about to explode.

But anyway, the reason it took so long was because I had a 10x CDROM drive running on a Cyrix-120 (PR-150) computer with 32MB EDO-RAM and a 1Meg non-3D GFX card. That was one SLOW computer. Of course, TA still played half-OK once installed. Curious though, that it took so long to install. Looking back, I wonder why. I mean, in retrospect, I probably should've closed any and every-thing that was open so that the install would go as smoothly as possible. But still....


i thought i was the only one who had to wait a long time for something to download then in the end, it dont work ... well id say ... right now.. im downloading a total conversion to doom ... its called " ZooW " i got 6 hours remaining ... im gonna chop somebodies head off if it dont run properly. my modem is 56k so it explains itself.
Well, as a member of the Zoow team, I pray and hope you're downloading the latest version of Zoow with the latest version of files that are in the download section and the latest patches, and I hope your JDoom installation doesn't have any issues! Or else I'm gonna have to send a get-well-soon card to whoever gets his or her head chopped off!

[DOOM_GOAT]

Interesting you should say that, because my Total Annihilation folder was over 100 times that (close to 2 gigs) the last time I was backing it up

If you copy over the entire contents of both the original CDs, AND install the core contingency add-on, I can see how it would be quite huge. Other than that, I don't know.

[CheapAlert]

C&C Renegade took an hour to copy 900mbs worth onto my poor 1GHz.

[Geedougg]

Well, I have the full game, Core Contingency, AND Battle Tactics, plus about 5000 (or more) units I downloaded from the net a long time ago, plus all the other add-ons and what-not. And the game's guts is out everywhere too, since I messed with the data packs a lot to see what they were like. Add to that the insane number of save-game files and the maps I made myself plus the editing utilities, and you'll get to a healthy 2Gigs or so.

[Woolie Wool]

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. A whopping 1.5GB, plus it sometimes took Setup several tries to copy one of the main data files correctly.

[Geedougg]

Cool! You have a Cyrix 120MHz system as well! What's the spec?

[FATAL]

Now I'm suprised! I've never had installs longer than 15 minutes. Well sometimes I had to fight against my twisted minded computer to get it working and finally got it working and finally won my computer's evil ways! 2 days it took if I remember right...

[Abrax]

I don't know exactly how long it took, but the first Ureal Tournament on my R.I.P 233MHz system. It took ages, and I installed Chaos UT, since I got with the Game of the Year Edition version that I bought. It was playable, due to an insane 128Mb SDRAM (for a 233MHz system). It ran fine, if you like your games on 512x384, with textures smaller than those in Doom (Just you try running it on a 3DFx VooDoo 1!).

But thats alright now, I now have a 2GHz machine :)

[Wicked Anime Kid]

10 minutes. Unreal II is sooooo slow.
Hah that's true, the unreal installation allows you to eat an entire mcdonalds building.

Enter the Matrix took long enough for me (15 mins)

[iori]

I heard in PC Gamer, Final Fantasy XI takes about 3 hours.

[The Mastermind]

Like four hours, with patches, for Tribes 2 back on my old P-3 550 Mhz. That was quite the experience - several times I was actually quite convinced that my computer was frozen.