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Unable to download the client?
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Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-01-25 23:56:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Joia Crenca
I found that the EVE client wouldn't patch at all, so I'm attempting to download it fresh and do a reinstall. I was able to download the 4.20 mb executable, but the payloads 1 and 2 don't seem to want to download at all?
Soulstar Harvest
#2 - 2013-01-26 00:02:35 UTC
I have this same problem. Been struggling with it the last two days now and I can't seem to get ANYTHING to work Sad I have tried on two different computers with two different operating systems even.
ChrisTooFar
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#3 - 2013-01-26 01:49:31 UTC
I recently had the same problem until I downloaded a VPN program called "Hotspot Shield" off cnet... It did the trick and allowed me to download the two payloads at a decent rate. I would suggest uninstalling afterwards because it is annoyingly ad-supported.

Dromedaworks Inc. - Director of American Timezones
Soulstar Harvest
#4 - 2013-01-26 06:55:02 UTC
I don't understand why or how...but that worked! lol THANKS!
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-01-26 14:56:53 UTC
Thank you, I'll try that as well!
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-01-26 15:39:28 UTC
Hotspot Shield seems to be working, but you're right about the advertisements. CCP, I was surprised that I had to resort to anything other than a normal download this time? Previously, I would set the download for the night, and then install the next day, but this time, after the failed update, I couldn't download at all until I got the suggestion for the special application here.
Shiana Soltek
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-01-26 17:43:10 UTC
If someone can please link the md5 checksum of a valid and working copy of the Installer, as well as Payload 1 and Payload 2. I have a copy of them downloaded already that says they are complete (each file is over 2.3gig in size), and they pass validation during installation, however when the installer goes to do the file extraction phase, it fails.
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#8 - 2013-01-26 18:37:03 UTC
That's what I'm finding as well. Corrupt downloads on the server?
ChrisTooFar
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#9 - 2013-01-26 21:51:28 UTC
CCP seems to be having internal corruption problems. I tried going through what you are having problems with and are too unable to get passed the extraction phase of the installing. Kind of bummed, I don't have a solution for this one. Cry

Dromedaworks Inc. - Director of American Timezones
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-01-27 00:24:39 UTC
Chris, I do appreciate the suggestion of the VPN, however, that was a good one! But yes, somethings up and beyond our power to get fixed. CCP will have to open the door to a working client for us.
ChrisTooFar
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#11 - 2013-01-27 02:16:05 UTC
Joia Crenca wrote:
Chris, I do appreciate the suggestion of the VPN, however, that was a good one! But yes, somethings up and beyond our power to get fixed. CCP will have to open the door to a working client for us.


I just redownloaded the two payloads via the VPN and the installer appears to be working, it got thru the extraction phase without a problem. The key is to make sure the files are complete, as in one is the full 2.7gb and the other is 2.6gb. I'll keep you posted if anything goes haywire.

Dromedaworks Inc. - Director of American Timezones
ChrisTooFar
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#12 - 2013-01-27 02:30:40 UTC
Confirmed I can log in... Let me know if it works out for you.

Dromedaworks Inc. - Director of American Timezones
Aelistra Zeah
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2013-01-28 10:38:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Aelistra Zeah
I recently had an issue downloading and installing, but the issue didn't seem similar to this.

After doing countless things to try and fix this, as well as restoring my computer to see if it was just something on my computer I may have missed, I found this thread.


I was successful in downloading, patching, and logging in to EVE by having the mentioned VPN installed and running before using the .exe to begin download/installation.

I'm not quite sure what it is that made it all work, as I'm not very fluent when it comes to using VPN software.

Thank you very much for helping me get back into playing EVE after four days of struggling with downloading.

EDIT: I did not need to download payloads separately, I just needed to run the .exe file and it began downloading everything automatically.
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-01-30 00:22:44 UTC
Just a follow-up. I was finally able to download the entire payload using Firefox's 'DownThemAll' addon. I used it in conjunction with the Hotspot Shield VPN, and finally was able to install the EVE client.