your team is either too aggressive or not aggressive enough.

**Panzerknacker92** · 03-13-10, 01:48 PM

Hey guys,

i bought L4D 1 today and i wanted to play it then i made my steam account activated the code to play and then i had to download the game , and it says it will take 10 hours -.-' my Networkspeed is ~120Kbps
do i really have to wait that long

and if not how can i download it faster to play online or play it offline ........

**Dr Robotnik** · 03-13-10, 01:59 PM

You bought the game on CD? If so, have you installed the game from the CD?

**Panzerknacker92** · 03-13-10, 02:17 PM

yea i bought the game as CD but how , if i press Re-Install automatclly Steam opens and says installing L4D Retail is this right?

**Dr Robotnik** · 03-13-10, 03:11 PM

No idea - I bought L4D over Steam so everything was downloaded.

If you load in the CD and select Install from the CD autorun, it should install the L4D stuff to the computer (and do the Steam bit). This will leave only the recent patches/updates to L4D to download via Steam.

You shouldn't have to install L4D from Steam, there should be some kind of autorun when you insert the CD which has an install option thereon...

**imported_Iggy** · 03-13-10, 06:11 PM

If you bought it on CD, then I would not be surprised if there were a lot of updates. If you fire up Steam and it shows that it is downloading, then I guess I would just let it run, overnight if necessary, and let it finish up.

**Abyss Crown** · 03-13-10, 06:48 PM

Yes, buying it over a CD, especially now, will ages before you can finally play it (as well as re-downloading it over Steam to a new computer).

My suggestion is what Iggy suggests, do it over night or when you're out of the house. Just leave it running.
No, there is no way of bypassing this, so just hang in there. Might as well wait 10 hours then never playing it!

P.S. 120 kb/s is the average speed it will go as, don't expect to go pass 200 kb/s, and expect to have some crappy speeds from time to time.

**Dr Robotnik** · 03-14-10, 04:17 AM

Regarding Steam download speeds, I have always got between 700KB/sec and 1.1 MB/sec when installing new games completely via Steam.

I would have thought that using the CD would cut down on a lot of downloading as most of the core game data is on the CD??