Lag from Blizzard Downloader!

[swaldman]

When 1.10 was installed, with it came the background downloader. "Great idea, so long as the bandwidth is regulated", thought I.

Well. This week it has kicked into action, presumably for the 1.11 patch. Every time it is downloading stuff, my latency goes into the yellow.

Does this seem braindead to anybody else? That the automatic background downloading of WoW patches (which most users will be unaware is happening) should make WoW nearly unplayable?

[One Swordsman]

Same here mate, disable it while playing, then when your not playing, leave it running idle (you can run it manually from your WoW folder). That's what I did anyway.

[Imrei]

Originally Posted by One Swordsman

Same here mate, disable it while playing, then when your not playing, leave it running idle (you can run it manually from your WoW folder). That's what I did anyway.

Stupid question time... How do I kick it on when I'm not playing? I would love to have that critter running while I am at work and not using the computer.

[s12demon]

Apps for the slight hijack.... but how do you disable it? Take it you just right click, close it like most other programs?

[swaldman]

Originally Posted by s12demon

Apps for the slight hijack.... but how do you disable it? Take it you just right click, close it like most other programs?

Open it up and go to options, and you can disable background downloading.

[det]

Does anybody know of any standalone patch available at any site? My patch is just stuck at 65% downloading for ages....

[det]

Ah well...in case anybody comes lookin here - it will eventually pick up and download completely. Just with Insane latency, so if you disable "loading in background" and download over night or such, you might be fine.....