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Originally Posted by David Watts
This why would anyone purchase from Steam thing keeps coming up, so I thought I would finally respond. When I purchase OOTP it takes 3-4 hours for the initial download to finish( I have crappy AT&T DSL for internet). Now, if I purchase from OOTP, patches are going to for the most part take that same 3-4 hours. Of course, that's if they don't crap out after 2 hours forcing me to start all over again. With Steam, the initial download still takes 3-4 hours, but patches download faster. I've also never once had a Steam download stop working halfway finished.
I also love the fact that I have my games forever, without having to keep track of a license.
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what you need is a download manager... i think i just puked in my mouth a little bit...
all jokes aside, in your situation it makes a ton of sense. find one that allows you to continue incomplete downloads. that should help you out alot. then, some things below might be worth looking into to improve your situation.
if you have any real-time AV / spyware / malware, or worse more than one running, turn all that crap off if you don't have a habit of clicking those "update adobe" pop-ups and similar stuff, stupid with your email, or go to incredibly malicious porn sites, lol. i haven't had a virus on this pc, ever. my last one got one once, and it was my dumb-@$$ fault. a little common-sense goes a long way. 1 severely malicious virus in more than a decade at least... and it was my fault. you still have to run a program like spybot s&d and/or a virus scan every month or two. (i prefer the old one, haven't used the new 2.x+). just get one that is mostly standalone and only runs when you load it up.
there may be some other settings to look into with windows and such. maybe a few google searches could be fruitful, too. turn of as many background services dedicated to updating 3rd party software... just click the update button yourself when you load them up (non-win stuff)
att dsl + win7 +
optimization
improve speed
etc..
look for an article with instructions, not a program that 'streamlines' things.. those are a waste of your time or malicious.