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Monkey-D-Man
12 years ago

How to install SimCity from the disc / disk (DVD) instead of downloading?

I know that you can install origin and then download simcity, but that takes forever. I have the disk I know it has the game on it (because of the size of the zipped file is 1.8gb), when I play auto...
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Anonymous
12 years ago

Put in DVD, let it autorun. Login to Origin, game will install...then game will download patch(s) ... that's how I did it.....

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    Monkey-D-Man
    12 years ago

    It says it's installed according to origin, but the file it downloaded to do it was only roughly 250MB, so I can't imagine that is the whole game.

    Now it's doing the "processing large file" if that is just updates that are only accessible online, then I guess I have no choice. Just thought it might be on the DVD already.

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      Anonymous
      12 years ago

      Game is already on patch 1.4, so unfortunately there will be some large files to download and process if you are starting from a disc install.

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