Path of Exile 2 Early Access Pre-Download Information

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Speknatz#3003 wrote:

Guys when you install the launcher there is an "option" button to choose where you want it

Who cant even do proper Install then he/her not worthy for the EA acces!

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Aeratiel#0301 wrote:

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sp6m3n44#6817 wrote:

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Aeratiel#0301 wrote:

meh steam preload is packed and it would unpack at release, just waisting of time. better download standalone rn, bigger chance to get in game at release

Same as the standalone so why it would be easy to get in with ?

when u will sit and wait to steam unpack it and then download patches sa clints will already stay in que to login lol

standalone is compressed even more (by 2GB) and encrypted just like the steam version
u kinda have no idea what you're talking about

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warnicke#0907 wrote:

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m33ts4k0z#0771 wrote:

Best bet is to download using Steam. 0 issues so far. Full speed download.

didnt they say that we needed the SA to play in the early acess?

They have phrased it very strangely. But there are currently 3 ways to get the files. SA, Steam and Epic Store. Eventually a torrent will also appear soon. Maybe they underestimated the traffic and chose to distrubute it on all available platforms/stores to balance the load. The SA client has already a lot of problems.

Yeah the SA is constantly crashing in the first 1-2% for me. Different files each time it seems so maybe just complete overload?

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Jaydlez#7925 wrote:

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Ch3ck#5312 wrote:

Oh men finally but... couldn't even chose which drive to install it. Didn't even give me an option so had to clean my C drive a bit since I use it mostly for OS. Hopefully I can change it afterwards cause I will have almost no resources left.
Unless anyone know a way to download standalone on a different drive, help would be appreciated. Thanks

Put the installer on a different drive.

I did, was the first thing. Still installed it on C:
Download it and ranned it in F: drive which has 2TB.

Allocated everything on C:

Dunno what to tell you. Maybe I'll just cut copy paste to F: drive at the end.

all these experts on steam 'early access preload policy' lmao

thank you ggg!

PC Client installed - game download fails at 126GB with "Error: Failed writing received data to disk/application while downloading... /metadata/monsters/skeletons/ggdh"

Screen shot attached.

The Standalone Client installer has no built-in contingencies for having any problems downloading a file and will hard-crash anytime it has a hang-up, making you start from 0 all over-again. I seriously doubt anyone can use it to successfully download the client until it gets patched xD

BTW:

We previously mentioned that a torrent would be available for pre-download. This was with the intention that the download would still be available if our patching servers had issues from the potentially immense load. We've instead decided to let our patching servers bear the full brunt of the downloads, as it would be better to catch any issues caused by this now so that we can make our servers more resilient for launch.

this is from another post, so no torrent guys.

At around 5% of 86.3 gb:



Resume button modCheck


Edit: it does appear to resume, as i now have 80.77GB to go.

Edit: getting this error now though (HTTP 503 = Service Unavailable):



Edit: and working now.