To increase Origin download speed, make sure you are connected to a good speed and stable internet connection. You can follow the fixes that we have mentioned here to get rid of the problem. Now, if you are one of those dealing with the same problem, this post is for you. It can be frustrating seeing your games download so slow. As reported by them, games and updates take forever to download. However, some users have reported experiencing slow download speed on Origin. The Origin desktop client allows Windows users to download games and other game-related content from Electronic Arts.
In the meantime I guess I'll just grab a GB a day, and 100 days from now I'll finally be able to play MSFS again.Here is a full guide on how you can fix the slow download speed problem on Origin. Thankfully this is something that Steam does handle, and like I said, Steam's updater is a pure dream in comparison.
Maybe Asobo will release an update to the installer. I would advise against reinstalling for any reason at the moment. I seriously don't know how they managed to undo all the work they did to make it stable enough (because even then it was quite lacklustre feature-wise). Very inconsistent speeds (all the way down to dial-up), several looping packages resulting in hours and hours of downloading going to waste, the manager crashed a couple of times, and once it tried to load the simulator with an incomplete installation, leading to an endless loading screen.
Now with Sim Update 5, all the old bugs are back.
A huge step forward from my extremely poor experience trying to download the simulator at launch. The download of Sim Update 4 went flawlessly, speeds were consistent (for my slow connection at least), no looping downloads, crashes and other quirks. I had to reinstall the entire simulator from scratch twice recently due to bugs coming from the beta test, with Sim Update 4 and Sim Update 5. If anyone can talk me off the ledge, I'd appreciate it! Add to the fact that MSFS updater requires so much GPU & CPU to download files (thus costing electricity), and it almost makes me want to say "screw it". What really boils my goose is that I bought this on Steam, and Steam's updater is top-notch, an absolute joy to use, but of course MSFS doesn't use Steam for updates, except to update the updater.Īnyway, as you can tell I'm mighty grouchy about this. Any ideas?Įven if the updater was running at my full internet speed, updating MSFS is a real PITA, because every update is bigger than most full games that I own. I've tried all sorts of things to fix this - run as administrator, run with no other windows open, etc. Killing it and restarting picks up where the downloads left off, but I'm not going to make any progress at all if I have to do this every other hour. I try to run the updater overnight, only to wake up and find that the updater has frozen early on.
Is there a setting to change this, or is this a limitation of the servers? This is a fraction of my internet bandwidth, but that's the speed the updater is running at.
A couple of updates ago, the updater broke my install and I had to wipe everything and start over.