What's happening with my installation?

[vladiator]

I don't get it. I just purchased a hard copy of ETW: Special Forses edition from a store in New Zealand. It came with two disks and the manual told me to insert Disk 1 and follow the instructions. I did so which downloaded Stream. I activated the game through STream, which then offered me to install the game. I pressed the button and the game started to be downloaded from the internet through Stream.

Is it how the installation supposed to work?! Why did I buy a hard copy and what those two disks are for, if all the files have to be downloaded from the internet? When I insert the second CD, the PC just opens the CD directory which has some random files. The files contained on the first disk look like Stream-related files.

Now my PC is downloading the files from Steam at about 350Kb/s, It will take hours to download them all. I understand using Stream to activate a game already installed from a CD, but I do not understand what I bought CDs for in this case. Am I doing something wrong here?

[Sir Beane]

I don't get it. I just purchased a hard copy of ETW: Special Forses edition from a store in New Zealand. It came with two disks and the manual told me to insert Disk 1 and follow the instructions. I did so which downloaded Stream. I activated the game through STream, which then offered me to install the game. I pressed the button and the game started to be downloaded from the internet through Stream.

Is it how the installation supposed to work?! Why did I buy a hard copy and what those two disks are for, if all the files have to be downloaded from the internet? When I insert the second CD, the PC just opens the CD directory which has some random files. The files contained on the first disk look like Stream-related files.

Now my PC is downloading the files from Steam at about 350Kb/s, It will take hours to download them all. I understand using Stream to activate a game already installed from a CD, but I do not understand what I bought CDs for in this case. Am I doing something wrong here?

The game is NOT supposed to download all of the files from Steam. If you have a disk it should install from the disk, and it did for me. Once the game is installed Steam downloads a small patch, but that is it.

I would try re-installing and see if it does it a second time.

[vladiator]

Thanks Sir Beane!

You are correct, I ran installation again and it installed from the disk.