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Warg: Thanks for the feedback. I've gotten rid of the downloader and will redownload via Opera.

Actually, that's what you probably should have done in the first place :D Yes, I'm not really a fan of GoG downloader... Then again, I have completely different ISP
Post edited August 28, 2009 by Fenixp
You might like to try a third-party download manager (feed the "browser download" link into it). I use , although it's shareware; good free options include [url=http://www.freedownloadmanager.org]Free Download Manager and FlashGet.
I use GetRight for all downloads--GOG and otherwise--and I have found that it is extremely rare for a file downloaded with a download manager to turn out to be corrupted because it is able to wind back the download if necessary to ensure integrity and doesn't stop building the file until it actually receives all data from the server.
Note that if you pause the download for too long you will need to get a new source URL and change the download's URL; unlike the GOG downloader a third-party download manager can not self-authenticate. Broken downloads can be easily resumed once a new source URL is fed in and it only discards a megabyte or so of the existing file when it resumes. A download manager only has to restart a download from the beginning if the server it is downloading from doesn't support resume (all GOG's servers support resume, so that's not an issue here).
Post edited August 28, 2009 by Arkose
As a fellow Australian, I can sympathise. Caps and speed limits here are a pain.
I've had one game that has had 4 failed attempts in the past two weeks or so, but no real issues other than that since joining here. (GOGdownloader twice, direct through a browser, and a download manager). It does happen, but not that often.
Sorry the first attempt was a bad one.
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michaelleung: Just because GOG is new and different doesn't mean it's ripe for criticsm.

This is an awful attitude; everything is ripe for criticism. Everything needs to be ripe for criticism, lest we be overburdened with mediocrity.
So you are disappointed because you didn't realize Gamersgate is having a Gothic sale and one of your downloads became corrupt? I don't know what to say...
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michaelleung: Just because GOG is new and different doesn't mean it's ripe for criticsm.
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frostcircus: This is an awful attitude; everything is ripe for criticism. Everything needs to be ripe for criticism, lest we be overburdened with mediocrity.

As long as the criticism is actually warranted and justified, not simply spouted for the purposes of relieving frustration or in an attempt to disparage the criticized (as is all too often the case with online criticism). Criticism for criticism's sake is waste of everyone's time. Criticism for improvement's sake is always worth speaking and listening to.
Just so we are clear, I'm not saying the OP was posting a critical rant at all, I'm just commenting on the attitudes towards criticism that have been expressed here.
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cogadh: Criticism for criticism's sake is waste of everyone's time. Criticism for improvement's sake is always worth speaking and listening to.

The differentiation between the two is more down to how the criticism's used than how it's meant. Perfectly valid, constructively-worded criticism can often be useless, and barely-legible shouted rants can lead to useful change.
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cogadh: Criticism for criticism's sake is waste of everyone's time. Criticism for improvement's sake is always worth speaking and listening to.
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frostcircus: The differentiation between the two is more down to how the criticism's used than how it's meant. Perfectly valid, constructively-worded criticism can often be useless, and barely-legible shouted rants can lead to useful change.

I would have to strongly disagree with that. In my experience, the barely coherent rant is almost always ignored and not taken seriously, if not outright ridiculed. At the same time, the clearly worded criticism will usually lead to productive discussion of the criticism and equitable solutions.
its not what you say, but what people hear
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kiva: its not what you say, but what people hear

And what they hear is determined by how you say it. If you write or speak something in an angry and incoherent manner, all anyone is going to hear is "the crazy guy is yelling something", but if you write or speak clearly, then you are going to have a discussion.
We have a perfect example of this happening right now in the US with our current national debate over health care reform. Politicians all over the country are holding "town hall" meetings to discuss health care issues At many of these meeting, some people are being quite disruptive (yelling out of order, shouting incoherent questions, etc.). In almost every case where this happens, the discussion devolves into little more than a shouting match with everyone leaving the room angry and nothing is accomplished.
However, in a few circumstances, critics of the current health care proposals have shown up for these meetings and have actually taken the time to formulate serious questions or have respectfully expressed their criticisms. In every single one of these instances, the meeting became an open, though possibly heated, discussion of the issues. Not everyone leaves these meetings happy, but they all consider the discussion to be productive.
The two different outcomes had absolutely nothing to do with what was heard, but had everything to do with how it was said.
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kiva: its not what you say, but what people hear
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cogadh: And what they hear is determined by how you say it. If you write or speak something in an angry and incoherent manner, all anyone is going to hear is "the crazy guy is yelling something", but if you write or speak clearly, then you are going to have a discussion.
We have a perfect example of this happening right now in the US with our current national debate over health care reform.

Or indeed almost anywhere on the internet you dare discuss fallout 1 & 2 in the same thread as 3...
Most often when people have recurring problems with corrupted downloads, the source can be traced to either;
1) A hardware failure on their end (harddrive or network connections)
2) An inproperly configured router
3) A low-grade cheapass shitty ISP (see 2)
I've downloaded over 50 games in the course of about 6 months, some of them multiple times, and have never once had a corrupted download.
One of the submarine cables in our area was damaged recently, perhaps that could be an issue if it has to be routed around the damage
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stonebro: I've downloaded over 50 games in the course of about 6 months, some of them multiple times, and have never once had a corrupted download.

Same here. Over 40 downloads and not a single one corrupted.
Come to think of it, there was just this one time when the Downloader actually worked in my case...