In preparation for 1.0 - How to use Bittorrent

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Tortoise will store a copy of every file for quicker diff. Unfortunately there is no way to turn that off. Half the size is duplicates, roughly.

So the actual file size is ~1.5 gig when unpacked. That's not bad really, considering how much content is in EB.

M2:TW takes 11 gigs for some insane reason (which I assume is because each unit has multiple skins?)

Bovi,

Are you going use my suggestion of Quickpar

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...7&postcount=80

So we can check the download and repair it with repair files if it's broken instead of DL the whole file again it will probably save a lot of frustration

I'm not going to be the one putting up mirrors. I'll make a MD5 checksum though, so people can check the integrity.

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Originally Posted by bovi

I'm not going to be the one putting up mirrors. I'll make a MD5 checksum though, so people can check the integrity.

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Yes OK,

but when it's not ok people have to DL the big file again right ?

Or do I miss understand that

I have a Downloadspeed of 4296Kbps and a Uploadpeed of 762Kbps so for me it is not a big problem to DL the file again but for others with slower connections it will.

So maybe it's wise and nice to have besides the Big download smaller downloads avaible so they can repair the big file with the smaller files

I can take care of this if you want

Please do.

Ok

I will start to make a small guide for this and will let you read it before i post it when i have EB1.0 installed and running without problems so i know the file is ok and then make the repair files available

Yet another reason to use torrents... :yes:

Anyhow, IIRC therother will be the one to upload it to mirrors such as FileFront?

well, If i manage to be one of the first one's to finish it on bittorrent ill go ahead and slap it onto filefront for everyone else, whats the rough size packed of eb 1.0?

It looks like ~650 MB for the packed file, and ~1.5 gig once it's unpacked.

That's just what I've gleamed from discussion lately, so take it with a grain of salt.

EB 1.0 is currently 1.8GB, with 24,397 files in 346 folders. It will be around 640MB packed. Which is a bit of an increase over 0.81a.

Krusader and I will upload the installer to various mirrors, as well as setting up the torrent. The torrent will undoubtedly be the first download source available though.

It's no problem to create a par2 set should anyone need them. Torrent has its own correction method so they won't be needed for anyone downloading via that protocol. In fact, if you had a corrupt download, you could probably use that to "resume" a torrent download and have it redownload the corrupted blocks. Might be the most efficient way of repairing a bad download.

The installer itself will do a MD5 check prior to installation, so corrupt installs shouldn't be a problem.

Sounds great. Looks like you guy are well organized and ready for the release....so release it already! :yes:

For the love of all that is good and holy in this world, release it and save the puppies, kittens, seals, abous, or anything else that a fan has threatened to club in these forums for the past week. :laugh4:

Dont forget the bootsuiv's.

But nobody cares about those. Cold, man. :smash:

:beam:

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Originally Posted by Watchman

But nobody cares about those. Cold, man. :smash:

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Hey now we need Bootsiuvs. Who else is gonna make my Bootsiuv Stew taste so creamy?:2thumbsup:

:inquisitive:

That's slightly disturbing, in a very disturbing sort of way. :laugh4:

:focus:

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Originally Posted by therother

Krusader and I will upload the installer to various mirrors, as well as setting up the torrent. The torrent will undoubtedly be the first download source available though.

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Let me emphasize that the EB Team does NOT want fans strewing copies of EB 1.0 on various mirrors. Doing so will cause us to lose track of numbers of downloads, and increases the risk of somebody posting a malicious executable. :skull:

Those who take the time to learn how to use a torrent will be amply rewarded by having "first" access to EB v1.0, while those who want to wait for a mirror will have one soon enough. We really don't ask very much of you guys, so please help us out on this. :yes:

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Originally Posted by bovi

People with limited traffic amount should not seed, as it will probably spend the max capacity on uploads until the limit is quickly reached. Those of you stuck with such an archaic deal may want to consider finding a better service provider, unless it is significantly cheaper to stay with your current one.

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for significantly cheaper read..nothing

I have an ex wife, a huge mortgage, an 18 month old boy for who the wife no longer works and I occassionally like a pint of beer...free is all I can afford :2thumbsup:

I reckon I shall use the bit Torrent as it worked quite nicely with the previous release..cheers

keep up the good work chaps and please have it out by Christmas as I have to work on Christmas Eve and New Years eve so I need to have something to do as the office will be dead

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Originally Posted by Baldrick

for significantly cheaper read..nothing

I have an ex wife, a huge mortgage, an 18 month old boy for who the wife no longer works and I occassionally like a pint of beer...free is all I can afford :2thumbsup:

I reckon I shall use the bit Torrent as it worked quite nicely with the previous release..cheers

keep up the good work chaps and please have it out by Christmas as I have to work on Christmas Eve and New Years eve so I need to have something to do as the office will be dead

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Christmas? If we even have to wait halfway to Christmas, I.... Well, :skull:

If I can interrupt for a quick second, does EB 1.0 take a lot longer to load than .08x?

Thanks.

Not AFAIK. Then again I am not using one of the lower end machines; but given the fact that the engine will be able to find almost everything in the Mod folder (and thus will have one task per file less to do -- i.e. defaulting to the default Data\...\... folder)...we have better average loading speeds per file I'd say.

Of course a lot of files have increased in size a lot; but a lot of files have been optimized by editing out code that is no longer used & removing commented code. According to Foot the files are the cleanest they've ever been; so that's also a good sign for running speeds.

So to boil it down: my guess is that while some of the loading times may have changed; you won't notice it very much on average.

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Originally Posted by fallen851

If I can interrupt for a quick second, does EB 1.0 take a lot longer to load than .08x?

Thanks.

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Of course a lot of files have increased in size a lot; but a lot of files have been optimized by editing out code that is no longer used & removing commented code. According to Foot the files are the cleanest they've ever been; so that's also a good sign for running speeds.

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Second that, in my PC it actually runs a little bit faster. :rtwyes:

I got three days free and if you guys release in those three days I can host it almost 19 hours a day, hope it helps

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Originally Posted by Karo

I got three days free and if you guys release in those three days I can host it almost 19 hours a day, hope it helps

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Oooh! I bet a month to wait.
(but if I'm wrong it won't be bad :2thumbsup: )

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Originally Posted by Charge

Oooh! I bet a month to wait.
(but if I'm wrong it won't be bad :2thumbsup: )

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You are wrong. :beam:

Thank god he's wrong :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

Kull didn't say in which direction.

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Originally Posted by Karo

Thank god he's wrong :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

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Yes, he is wrong. Two whole months at the very least... :juggle2: