Black Ops on PC STEAM!

ytareh

This is gonna take HOURS to install -dont bother making a trip to buy if ya wanna play it soon after tonight ...Grrr!

sink

I bought the game retail and I'm still waiting to install it. I've tried 5 times in the last 30 mins and all I get is Steam Servers are too busy please try again in a few minutes. Argghh!!! :mad:

ytareh

Well I had that problem too but I believe the thing is to try uninstall and reinstall it -and maybe run a cleaner like CCCleaner in between attempts...Im getting 500kb/s to 1.7meg download speed now and it STILL says it will take 4 hours to install!Like what the hell are they selling the thing on dvd hard copy for ?May as well be digital download...

sink

ytareh wrote: »

Well I had that problem too but I believe the thing is to try uninstall and reinstall it -and maybe run a cleaner like CCCleaner in between attempts...Im getting 500kb/s to 1.7meg download speed now and it STILL says it will take 4 hours to install!Like what the hell are they selling the thing on dvd hard copy for ?May as well be digital download...

I would have only it's 45 in HMV as opposed to 60 on steam.

frantic190

I installed it by disk and it only installed 98% of the game, Steam is downloading the rest at 2.7kb/s, it is gonna take 40 minutes to download 2% of a game.

cdb

frantic190 wrote: »

I installed it by disk and it only installed 98% of the game, Steam is downloading the rest at 2.7kb/s, it is gonna take 40 minutes to download 2% of a game.

How did you install it well 98% of it from disk? Only option is to install via Steam.

ytareh

Yeah HMV for 45 (on PC) here too ...so will it be more like the multiplayer setup on previous COD games ('dedicated servers')?That MW2 2 minute interval between 10 min games eventually drove me back to MW1 -better pings too...

AnimalRights

I've not used Steam in ages but 60 euros when the game is 40 in Game?
I always thought Steam were cheaper!!
Glad I didn't order it.

Robby91

cdb wrote: »

How did you install it well 98% of it from disk? Only option is to install via Steam.

Er... it installs it to Steam from the disk (like the Orange Box)?

I was in the same situation as frantic, although I was downloading the last 2% at 150KB/sec, approximately. Just exited Steam, popped in the disc, let the installer restart Steam and it went through the usual Steam game installation windows, and the disc install was done in 10mins

sink

The damn thing started to download the entire game from the internet despite me having the stupid DVD. I found a fix on the steam forums and now it's installing properly from the disc.

If anyone has the same issue try this.

This worked for me;

- Remove any installed stuff that Steam had downloaded.
- Stop any downloads (you might want to close your internet connection)
- Right click on Call of Duty Black Ops Multiplayer
- Select "Delete local game content"
- Same for the Single player
- Close Steam (EXIT Steam)
- Plug in your internet again
- Press the Windows-key + R (to Run something)
- Write (with quotes): "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -install H:

Replace the Steam-folder with your installation folder of Steam (where Steam.exe is) and replace H: with your DVD drive.

That worked for me.

frantic190

cdb wrote: »

How did you install it well 98% of it from disk? Only option is to install via Steam.

If you run setup.exe it installs from the disk, just transfers the files to Steam.... Was the same with MW2, took me 5 mins to get it (98% of it).

cdb

Didn't install from disk, was attempting to install via download with an estimated time of 6 hours. FFS.

the_syco

cdb wrote: »

Didn't install from disk, was attempting to install via download with an estimated time of 6 hours. FFS.

LOLTASTIC ROFLCOPTER!!!111111!!!!!!!!!1111111111e1even!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!

Installing it from disc as I type.

B0X

If i buy this off direct2drive for $60 I presume it still uses Steam? (It says third party software required) This begs the question though, why pay €60 instead of $60?

the_syco

B0X wrote: »

If i buy this off direct2drive for $60 I presume it still uses Steam? (It says third party software required) This begs the question though, why pay €60 instead of $60?

$60 is about €45 now, but when the exchange rate may have been different when the prices were been made. In the past, there was a gap of only €5 between the shop price and the online price, and it was roughly the same once.

Wonda-Boy

Funny I bought mine retail. Was no way in earth getting it off steam the RIP OFF ****S!!!!

Installed mine at 1am launch night, installed majority of the game from disc and then the rest from steam. Took about 15 mins in total, dont know others ar having an issue. Maybe I was lucky to install it so soon after launch rather then wait till next day.