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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Updating BF4 from computer to computer, please help

Hi, my internet is shoddily slow for downloads, so I do my downloading over a friend's house and bring it back to install it. 

For Battlefield 4 and Origin, how would I go about correctly updating and installing the patches and DLC onto my PC after downloading everything from another computer at my friend's house. I can't figure out how to do it, it's not like Steam in some ways ☹️ 

First I've logged into my Origin on my friend's computer and already have BF4 downloaded and installed. I was going to copy the entire Battlefield 4 folder, but just I copied the Updates folder and some of the __Installer folder. Even then, Origin insists on fully downloading everything from the beginning when I finally get back home and try it. 

What am I doing wrong? 

(summary: I want to have all the DLC and patches I downloaded from another computer onto my home computer.) 

PS. Why are the patches 800MB in size? That sounds more like filling in a humongous gaping hole than just a patch...

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  • SatansRobot's avatar
    SatansRobot
    13 years ago

    You need to start the download for the patch and pause it. For this short moment it should display the normal download speed.

    Then you have to rename the files you got from your friend. Everything that's in "Battlefield 4\Update\Patch". E.g. "cas_01.cas" to "cas_01.cas_DiP_STAGED".

    Copy the renamed files into your "Update\Patch" folder.

    Resume the download and it should immediately display 95% or so. You have to download only the 5% with normal speed.

    Then you can do the same for China Rising. The files are in "Battlefield 4\Update\Xpack1". Here you don't have to download additional files. Everything is in the Xpack1 folder.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    If you put the files in your Origin BF4 gamesfolder, it will start downloading but Origin will check existing files during this process. The download should be way faster as files from your hard-drive getting checked and used. Additional download might be still required. The download sizes of patches is not uncommon for a graphically highly demanding modern game like Battlefield 4.

    Cheers

    Basti

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Thanks but I did that and it took me 3 hours to fully download the ~850MB patch, for it to just begin the download all over again ☹️ I watched it tick over to 100% this morning and then it completely restarted it, ~100Kb/s for me.

    I understand  what you mean by it checking the files, because the repair install does it very quickly, but Origin literally does not see the files in the folder. I've pasted it in there lots of times. I've exited Origin, I've repaired install, I've started the download then pasted it in and Origin still just doesn't see the patch + the 5GB China Rising update.

    I need to be able to copy it over because any downloading from my house is just hours and hours.

  • SatansRobot's avatar
    SatansRobot
    13 years ago

    Here is what works for me and I do it all the time (also for BF3):

    1. You need the update/DLC files which are usually in the BF4 "Update" folder.

    2. Start the download of the patch/DLC in Origin and immediatly pause it.

    3. Rename all update files in the following way: "file.extension" -> "file.extension_DiP_STAGED". Origin uses this additonal file extension during download.

    3. Copy the renamed files into your BF4 folder. Everything should go into the "Update" folder.

    4. Resume the download in Origin. Origin will now recognize the copied files.

    5. There might be still some other files that need to be updated and are not in the "Update" folder. Origin will download these now. (e.g. bf4.exe). This download should be only ~ 100 MB.

    It did this yesterday for the patch and China Rising. I only had to download ~ 50 MB after copying the files.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It's confusing what ones you're saying to rename, but even then I'm not sure if I've done it right.

    Should the download start from 0% and still show my normal download speed? It's too risky to allow it to run for longer because it will just end up downloading the whole thing.

  • SatansRobot's avatar
    SatansRobot
    13 years ago

    You need to start the download for the patch and pause it. For this short moment it should display the normal download speed.

    Then you have to rename the files you got from your friend. Everything that's in "Battlefield 4\Update\Patch". E.g. "cas_01.cas" to "cas_01.cas_DiP_STAGED".

    Copy the renamed files into your "Update\Patch" folder.

    Resume the download and it should immediately display 95% or so. You have to download only the 5% with normal speed.

    Then you can do the same for China Rising. The files are in "Battlefield 4\Update\Xpack1". Here you don't have to download additional files. Everything is in the Xpack1 folder.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Thanks, once I got my head around the renaming and copying it worked just as you said :cathappy:

  • Tggyis16_TTV's avatar
    Tggyis16_TTV
    11 years ago
    How exactly would I be able to do this with expansions, if each pack ranges from 5-7gb. And which folder exactly. I want to this to really work. Also which folder do copy?

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