Estimating 2.0 Downloads?

CaLFiN · July 2003

It'll be very interesting to see how many people download 2.0 in the first hour/day/week/whatever. I was just wondering if anything is planned? I can remember this was done with 1.0, but how was it done?

Iced_Eagle · July 2003

im gonna d/l ASAP

locallyunscene · July 2003

Same. I'll probably be refreshing the page every 30sec from 11:30pm july 30 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Jabba_The_Hunt · July 2003

I'm going to be up most of the night (im in england) waiting for the release, once I've got a good server I'm off to bed and I'll be up early in the morning to play it (can only get 4 hours sleep with my computer fan going).

Salaman · July 2003

What's the point of getting it right away?
Unless you have a clan thats getting it right away and having a server that gets updated right away as well.
Otherwise you need to wait until a substantial number of other people update, as well as the servers you play on to be updated by the owner as well.

Young_Trotsky · July 2003

I think CaL was referring to whether the dev's are going to monitor how fast/often the 2.0 patch is downloaded after release.

CheesyPeteza · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rage against the Pepsi machine @ Jul 11 2003, 09:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> What's the point of getting it right away?
Unless you have a clan thats getting it right away and having a server that gets updated right away as well.
Otherwise you need to wait until a substantial number of other people update, as well as the servers you play on to be updated by the owner as well.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
15 minutes after CS1.5 being released our server was full.

Ezekiel · July 2003

the server files are being released a day early, hence we can play as soon as the game is downloaded. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

yoda_143 · July 2003

any idea how big the download will be ?

Ezekiel · July 2003

search for answers to that in other threads.

i think about 130mb ppl have been saying, could be wrong tho

Jabba_The_Hunt · July 2003

I got DoD 1.0 within hours of it being released and there were about 10 servers, then throughout the following week everyone updated. You can still play the new version.

Tyrain · July 2003

There will be a patch (hopefully) (me guess about 30 MB) so you don't have to download the full version again.

MrMojo · July 2003

I'm pretty sure there won't be a patch since so many things are changed. ( Can it be installed over the existing copy so it doesnt bork the control setup?)

Azazis · July 2003

I wish they would make it a Torrent
Much easier and faster then fileplanet and such

NurEinMensch · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MrMojo @ Jul 11 2003, 07:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I'm pretty sure there won't be a patch since so many things are changed. ( Can it be installed over the existing copy so it doesnt bork the control setup?)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Make a backup of your configs, uninstall 1.04, install 2.0 and put the configs back into the ns folder. I <i>think</i> that will be the recommended way.

wlibaers · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (NurEinMensch @ Jul 11 2003, 08:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Make a backup of your configs, uninstall 1.04, install 2.0 and put the configs back into the ns folder. I <i>think</i> that will be the recommended way.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Uninstall 1.00 for most people actually, as most probably don't have the server-side patches applied.

And I think I'm going to wait a day until some fast mirrors are up. Getting it the first day might be too hard unless the team gets mirrors in advance.

Tyrain · July 2003

MonsE said there will be 70 Mirrors up at release.

statusq · July 2003

There will be atleast 70 mirrors for download. But I don't know if they can handle the whole NS community downloading at the same time <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Edit: Like Tyrain said.

Grendel · July 2003

2.0 will almost certainly be a complete download, rather than a patch.

This will be to ensure that all bugs are quashed mercilessly.

The download will be around the 110MB mark. Bear in mind this will include the new maps and sexier versions of old maps. Say goodbye to the processing rush, for example.

Majin · July 2003

110 mbs isn't bad at all
I'll kick up DAP and get 5 or more Mirrors going at once and BOOM!
I'll have that down in about an hour.
If I was lucky, I could DL that in about 40 mins. But I doubt I'll get a great connection to any server with 2.0 so I'll say about 1 to 2 hours! Tops

Moquiao · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Azazis @ Jul 11 2003, 02:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I wish they would make it a Torrent
Much easier and faster then fileplanet and such  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
check my thread in general <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

MonsieurEvil · July 2003

I was still planning on making a patch unless Flay tells me otherwise, for our noble modem users. A patcher would of course not overwrite your config settings, anymore than the current installer gives you our own crappy config preferences. The code is more sophisticated than that...

However, as always, I recommend doing a clean install when HL mods are concerned. iD-inspired code always seems to suffer during mod patching for a certain percentage of users, if only because we have inadequate test facilities and no real technical QA staff other than Flay, Grendel, and myself. Hence things like the non-american CS retail install bugs that 1.0 ran into...

CaLFiN · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Young Trotsky @ Jul 11 2003, 03:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I think CaL was referring to whether the dev's are going to monitor how fast/often the 2.0 patch is downloaded after release.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
This is what I mean guys. I think my post has been mis-interpreted.

I mean the script 1.0 has at the moment on the homepage saying, "1.0 has been downloaded one million times."

Beast · July 2003

Will take me 30mins on my lovely connection to dl ns2.0. This is assuming I find a stable, reliable host.
Most likely being a friend with t1 ^-^

ZeroByte · July 2003

So... is there any official word on BitTorrent mirrors yet? Cause BT mirrors will really help the people download the release fast, reliably and without any queues....

the_draft · July 2003

If you want to save your control setup, point windows explorer to SIERRA/Half Life (or CStrike, if you have CS retail)/NS. Find two files, config.cfg and autoexec.cfg (you may NOT have an autoexec, if so, it's no big deal, config is the important one.) Copy config to the desktop, then delete and reinstall NS. When it's finished installing, just copy config back into the NS folder (it'll prompt you to overwrite the old one, which you should do.)

LaCHiE · July 2003

if AusNS mirror it, which we hope we will ... we'll setup a counter script for sure and see how many downloads etc.. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

CaLFiN · July 2003

People, people... I didn't make this post to talk about what mirrors you are downloading it from. It's aimed at somebody who can answer my question.

Estimating 2.0 Downloads?

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