2 and a half hours to install Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts??

filed under Gaming/PC by duniyadnd on October 9th, 2007 [blogs index]

You've got to be kidding me. I'm an avid fan of the Company of Heroes line of games, but when it takes 2 and a half hours to install a game, that's totally bogus.

First off, they check if you have the required specs on your machine, turns out, I don't have enough hard drive space, so I have to delete some stuff. No problem there, took about 15 minutes tops and I can't blame the installation for that. But when the installation starts, I enter in my key. Fair enough. Now it needs to uninstall my original Company of Heroes game. Understandable.. even though it was extremely slow in doing so. Then it begins installing.. Fine.. but that was taking a while too.

Once it installs, it looks for any update patches. Course I won't have the latest patch, I need to download it (130MB). No problem, should download in about 5-10 minutes tops. But since it's downloading from inside the installer, and it doesn't provide any option to find a mirror and any other link which might be faster, I'm stuck waiting for it to download (a good one hour).

Once it downloads, it goes out of the game to install the patch - amazing.

Finally, I go into Opposing Fronts only to find out that THQ/Relic server checks if I'm logged in. If I don't have an account, I HAVE to register (course I could just unplug my computer, but I don't feel I should do that to play the game). So I create an account and register and provide my key "again".

And now.. finally, I can play a game. They're lucky this is Company of Heroes, any other game, I just wouldn't bother recommending the game since it's a perfect turnoff.

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Anonymous, 27th December, 2007 [not in5ane member, x.x.189.99]

im havein the same problem man

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Anonymous, 28th December, 2007 [not in5ane member, x.x.119.196]

yep same probs but says that my keys already in use-im furious-finally put the last nail in the PC coffin for me

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Anonymous, 30th December, 2007 [not in5ane member, x.x.65.124]

i bought company of heroes opposing fronts, when I installed it,they ask me to download a patch, so I download the patch, nothing wrong but when I try to install the patch, they saY: not enough space, the disk or file may be damaged or dirty ect.

Someone knows how to solve this problem?

duniyadnd, 12th January, 2008 [original blog entry author]

never encountered it.. sorry.. :s

Anon, 23rd January, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.21.86]

Try deleting the downloaded patch.
They are located at
"C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes\Patch"

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Anon, 23rd January, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.21.86]

Still better than EA

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god, 25th March, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.224.174]

does anyones screen just go off? i mean 'no video input' floats along the screen-i cant do anything but turn my pc off at the switch. im really stuck and have no idea what to do as i have never encounted this type of problem before. The game worked once and i was playing it but since re-installing it , it happens everytime i try and load the game up!
any help would be grea thanks. ?

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Geno, 3rd May, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.160.223]

Me too. I started the install yesterday, and installed four patches in a row. ONE BY ONE!!! I ran out of patience, and let it run trough the night. When i woke up today, I ran the game again, only to get yet another message to download a (the 5th...) patch. I'm still waiting for it to complete... Hopefully I won't get more patch-messages, but I don't know anymore.... I've spent over three hours in total intalling the game itself, and patching it... This isn't much fun, I'll tell you that...

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Johnny, 3rd July, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.151.173]

do custom maps still work?

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Jim, 11th July, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.120.22]

I am now on my second day of installing Opposing Fronts...Rather than it downloading the patches one by one and then installing them all, it downloads 1, exits the game, installs the patch, which is incredibly slow..about 15 minutes...i restart the game...new patch required...cycle repeats...I'm now on my fourth or fifth patch download (It was so long ago i forget)....I'm only doing it now out of morbid curiousity to see what the game is like, but to be honest I think its been such a painfull experience, unless it is awsome, its probably going to get de-installed as a point of principle.

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tss, 13th July, 2008 [not in5ane member, x.x.114.26]

if you disconnect your internet you can get aruond stupid patch waste of time,'cept you can then only play offline

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