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GalacticGal's avatar
6 years ago

Why Does My Game Keep Downloading? Please Help

I felt compelled to repair my game a day or two ago. I let it complete, then played my game for what ended up being only an hour. Then, it attempted to update the abandoned Legacy Digitized game I don't need. That took ages, too. I canceled that toot sweet when it happened again the next day. Finally, I was able to get into my Limited Edition game. Now, it's repairing and downloading again, the minute I hit play on my Limited Edition game. Face/palm. So, can somebody please tell me why it persists in repairing and downloading my game, complete with packs every time I open Origin and hit play?

Is there a way to stop it from doing that? This grows wearisome, and like I said, eats up precious playing time. I was hoping to start playing early today, but it's doing it's constant and repetitive repairs. What the HECK?

What am I do to? How do I fix this and possibly stop it from doing this again?

Please, and thank you, in advance.

4 Replies

  • Huh. I'm having that too. I had a power outage when I was repairing the game the first time after the second patch so I thought that was why it downloaded again, but it's downloading again this morning.
  • "DaWaterRat;c-17529555" wrote:
    Huh. I'm having that too. I had a power outage when I was repairing the game the first time after the second patch so I thought that was why it downloaded again, but it's downloading again this morning.


    Yikes. Mine just now finished with a list of 30, instead of the usual 31. Now, I have to see just what got left out. Oi! This is a pain. I've had nothing but problems since I updated the hotfix. Everything seemed good after the initial patch. Gr. Oh, well. Going to comb out my wet hair and then play my game. Thanks for the response!
  • Don't know if it will help or not, but try another repair. I just did and got the expected number of packs/downloads, as opposed to the previous times which were 3 short.

    When I start up the computer tomorrow, I'll open Origin and see if it tries to download again.
  • Try backing up your "limited edition" version to somewhere else, uninstall origin make sure there are no leftover origin folder both in ProgramData and your %appdata% local/roaming folder. Then reinstall origin again.

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