Why is the game taking so long to download?
I bought The Sims 4 yesterday. I finally got the game to actually to download today. After two and a half hours, it finally gets to 1%. I've seen many people with the same problem, but I figured I'...
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What is your Internet connection speed?
Are you on WiFi or cable?
I started downloading at around 11PM last night and woke up in the morning at 10:40AM and it had downloaded 13%! I was furious but allowed it to download whilst I was out the whole day. I got back home at 7:40PM and it had downloaded 19%! At this point I was extremely angry. But now suddenly at 8:23 its now on 54%. explanation anyone I have great Wi-Fi so that isn't an issue.
Try the solution by EA_Kristi in this thread!
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Mind-numbingly-slow-download-speeds/td-p/4081511
SpoilerThere are a few things you could try:
- Pause and resume the download
- Do a Clean Boot and restart your router
- Add firewall/antivirus exceptions for Origin and open the needed ports
- When starting Origin, please make sure to run it as Administrator
Additional solution by ObsceneTwixx
This worked thank you. The clean boot and router restart fixed it i feel, however i did all the other steps aswell. managed to get my downlaod from 129kb/s to 29mbs which is now quicker than steam.🤓
