Well, I’m approaching the end of this saga, but that doesn’t mean I’m almost there.
I should be thrilled, but the experience has been quite frustrating. Honestly, disheartening at times.
Though I have downloaded 34.7GB of 37.9GB total, I’m still far from done.
As I have downloaded more files, the license manager takes longer “checking status of files already downloaded”. At the moment, the average is 13 minutes checking before it starts downloading. But the duration of the download hasn’t changed. It only works for 1 to 1.5 minute, once in a long while it reaches 2 minutes, and stops. Then, as I’ve already said, I have to quit the app and restart it.
And during that time it downloads about 0.2GB of data.
In the past hour I’ve managed to download 900MB of data.
I come from the dial-up Internet era, and it certainly feels like those days are back.
The worst part is that I have to manually download the files. If I could just click the download button once and let the license manager do its job of managing the download, I wouldn’t mind if the download rate were 1600 KB/sec.
But the thing is that the deal here seems to be “pay for the license, work to transfer the files from the servers to your machine”
Browsing through this forum, I’ve seen many people having trouble with the license manager during the migration period, especially with the license itself.
But mine is a clean, fresh install of both Windows and BFD3.
I’ve found one case similar to mine:
The user says the reply he got from support is that it must have been something with his machine or his connection. He even purchased a competitor’s product and downloaded the libraries without problems.
That’s not something I intend to do, but I’d appreciate if someone could point to any settings that I should check in Windows 11 that might indicate that the problem is on my system.
I’ve been away from Windows for quite a while. I used it until Windows7 was no longer supported.
Now I’m back. Sort of. I’m still using Linux as my daily driver, and will use Windows exclusively for music content.
After I’m done with this epic download of the BFD3 Core Library, I still would like to download an expansion, but not under these circumstances.
So if anyone can help me figure out whether there might be something wrong with my system settings, any tests I could run, before I reach out to BFD’s support, I appreciate it.