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x-Anyad_Gecije-'s avatar
12 years ago
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Sims 3 download slows down and stops entirely

So I bought the humble bundle and got around to downloading The Sims 3.  Download worked fine until a couple of hours ago when it decided to slow down and eventually, stop. No matter how many times i restart origin, it does the same bloody thing and is really annoying. The download speed is also incredibly slow in the begging(just over half of what my connection should be able to do). I didn't have this problem with the Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff dlc, nor with Battlefield 3. I'd really appreciate some support on this. My internet connection also didn't change in any way, and Steam still downloads properly and even did back in the Summer Sale.

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  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    do you get a 50% then dips to 10% what i mean is it keeps resetting if so try this

    Launch Origin and log in with your account
     
    - Click Origin in the top left (main menu)
     
    - Select Application Settings
     
    - From General tab, scroll down to "Update to the beta version if available" and tick the checkbox
     
    - Restart Origin

  • What happens to me is that my download speed just dies. The game is currently at 41% and the download speed is 6kb/s. I'll try that anyways and will post the results. Thanks in advance.

    EDIT:

    Nope, the download speed still dies. The speed just decreases and eventually, it reaches an incredibly low speed like 6kb/s. And I wouldn't like to wait a year for my game to download.

  • Thank you for your help, and sorry for such a late reply, I have somehow managed to get this monstrocity functioning without ''hicups''. I have disable AD Block as suggested by one of those sites, but that just made it worse. Then I went banana and decided to close everything and attemt restarting Origin. Misteriously, I have discovered that Origin was just a greedy whore who wants the full attention of my internet connection so leaving anything open which requires internet to function will drive Origin into craziness and kill my download time. So i spent the rest of that 2 hours downloading the game with a steady 800kb/s while watching Zero Punctuation on my phone(surprisingly I could do whatever I wanted with my phone on any website, it didn't affect download time). So thank you very much for taking a little time out of your day, helping me 'rumbutter'

  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    great to hear your download is successful now 🙂 happy simming 🙂