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General discussionHow to resume download of large game files without GOG Galaxy?(16 posts)(16 posts)
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Posted December 22, 2020
I only download games by downloading the offline game installers through my web browser. I have relatively slow wi-fi, so games like the Witcher 3 would take a long time to finish downloading. Is there a way to continue downloading my offline game installers even after I've closed my web browser, restarted computer, etc. without using GOG Galaxy?
Posted December 22, 2020
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ryuken3k: I only download games by downloading the offline game installers through my web browser. I have relatively slow wi-fi, so games like the Witcher 3 would take a long time to finish downloading. Is there a way to continue downloading my offline game installers even after I've closed my web browser, restarted computer, etc. without using GOG Galaxy?
Just go to your account on the GOG webpage and go to your library, there can you select and download the offline installers. Bigger downloads may be a bit complicated, since bigger files are split in files of not more than 4 GB size.
A few years ago, there was the GOG Downloader, a good and usefull tool to download your games without Galaxy and without hassle, but GOG got sadly rid of it.
Posted December 22, 2020
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ryuken3k: I only download games by downloading the offline game installers through my web browser. I have relatively slow wi-fi, so games like the Witcher 3 would take a long time to finish downloading. Is there a way to continue downloading my offline game installers even after I've closed my web browser, restarted computer, etc. without using GOG Galaxy?
which browser do you use? several browser have addons which allows partial and ability restart downloads. there are also download managers that you can use
Posted December 22, 2020
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ryuken3k: I only download games by downloading the offline game installers through my web browser. I have relatively slow wi-fi, so games like the Witcher 3 would take a long time to finish downloading. Is there a way to continue downloading my offline game installers even after I've closed my web browser, restarted computer, etc. without using GOG Galaxy?
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amok: which browser do you use? several browser have addons which allows partial and ability restart downloads. there are also download managers that you can use
Firefox
Posted December 22, 2020
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amok: which browser do you use? several browser have addons which allows partial and ability restart downloads. there are also download managers that you can use
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ryuken3k: Firefox
you have for example Turbo Download manager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/turbo-download-manager/

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Free Download Manager (https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/) which has Firefox integration as well -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/free-download-manager-addon/

There are others, but i don't use Firefox, so maybe others have more recommendations
Posted December 22, 2020
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ryuken3k: Firefox
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amok: you have for example Turbo Download manager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/turbo-download-manager/

or

Free Download Manager (https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/) which has Firefox integration as well -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/free-download-manager-addon/

There are others, but i don't use Firefox, so maybe others have more recommendations
Which browser and download manager do you use?
Posted December 22, 2020
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amok: you have for example Turbo Download manager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/turbo-download-manager/

or

Free Download Manager (https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/) which has Firefox integration as well -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/free-download-manager-addon/

There are others, but i don't use Firefox, so maybe others have more recommendations
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ryuken3k: Which browser and download manager do you use?
I use Galaxy... and Chrome browser.

I am on a fast unlimted broadband (Virgin fibre) so I have not had the need for a download manager for years
Posted December 22, 2020
Several years ago I had good luck with DownThemAll. It's free, open source and is listed as a recommended Firefox extension. (I haven't used it in several years since I'm now on a fast enough connection that Edge's built-in download manager is sufficient - but it worked great back when I did use it.)
Posted December 22, 2020
I use gogrepo.py, which is a bit of tinkering to set up, but a blessing for people with larger collections.
Posted December 23, 2020
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ryuken3k: I only download games by downloading the offline game installers through my web browser. I have relatively slow wi-fi, so games like the Witcher 3 would take a long time to finish downloading. Is there a way to continue downloading my offline game installers even after I've closed my web browser, restarted computer, etc. without using GOG Galaxy?
I use either gogrepo.py with my GUI for it or I use Free Download Manager 5 with Brave, a Chrome clone.

That's for the actual downloading, and it depends on size, because Kalanyr's fork of gogrepo.py which has resuming, downloads too slow and unreliable for me, so I have stuck to the original version of gogrepo.py which unfortunately has no resuming.

So for big files I just stick to Free Download Manager 5, which has queuing and resume and speed adjustment etc.

I then use gogrepo.py afterward to check file integrity, though another program of mine is a GUI for InnoExtract etc and can do a much deeper and slower integrity check, and not just for GOG files ... it is called GOGPlus Download Checker.
Post edited December 23, 2020 by Timboli
Posted June 04, 2022
I'm using Free Download Manager.

Trying to download No Man's Sky on a slow, metered connection.

In the past, I have not had significant issues with resuming downloads(sometimes it takes some fiddling with logging in again and replacing links within FDM), but tonight, this No Man's Sky download failed with an error 403(denied) at 1.36 GB, after only about an hour. I cannot get the download to resume, after repeated attempts. I've tried several different methods to harvest a good URL(including looking in Chrome's developer options).

While I can restart the download completely, I have no reason to attempt to do so if it's just going to fail again in an hour with another 403, before I can pull the complete 4 GB file. In addition, this game has multiple 4 GB files I will have to download to get the full base game working, and at least one more large(3.2 GB) patch.

Is this just something I'm not going to be able to download at all? I certainly can't afford to keep trying if it's just going to repeat this behavior. Did GoG change something with the way their download links work? FDM used to catch identical file names automatically in some instances, and this doesn't appear to be working with GoG currently either.

Using Galaxy could be a temporary solution, but if I don't get to keep a copy of the installers, I won't bother using that method, as it will inevitably cause me to have to redownload the entire game at some point, costing additional $.
Posted June 04, 2022
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throet: I'm using Free Download Manager.

Trying to download No Man's Sky on a slow, metered connection.

In the past, I have not had significant issues with resuming downloads(sometimes it takes some fiddling with logging in again and replacing links within FDM), but tonight, this No Man's Sky download failed with an error 403(denied) at 1.36 GB, after only about an hour. I cannot get the download to resume, after repeated attempts. I've tried several different methods to harvest a good URL(including looking in Chrome's developer options).

While I can restart the download completely, I have no reason to attempt to do so if it's just going to fail again in an hour with another 403, before I can pull the complete 4 GB file. In addition, this game has multiple 4 GB files I will have to download to get the full base game working, and at least one more large(3.2 GB) patch.

Is this just something I'm not going to be able to download at all? I certainly can't afford to keep trying if it's just going to repeat this behavior. Did GoG change something with the way their download links work? FDM used to catch identical file names automatically in some instances, and this doesn't appear to be working with GoG currently either.

Using Galaxy could be a temporary solution, but if I don't get to keep a copy of the installers, I won't bother using that method, as it will inevitably cause me to have to redownload the entire game at some point, costing additional $.
*strains brain to remember how*

You can update the URL of the download in FDM with a fresh live-tokened one. Start a new download in your browser, stop it, then grab the download link. In Firefox you do this by right-clicking the cancelled download in your Download Library list and "Copy Download Link"- no idea how this goes in Chrome 'cause I don't use it. Once you have the new url, right click on the FDM entry for your file (make sure it's the same one!) and "change URL". Paste in your new download link and the download should continue where it left off if the file hasn't been changed on the server in the meantime.

If an FDM browser extension is grabbing all your downloads in your browser by default you might want to temporarily turn that feature off if it overwrites existing ones while doing it.

EDIT: Ahh. I missed that you've replaced links before. If replacing the link doesn't work I have no clue how to get it to work again.
Post edited June 04, 2022 by Braggadar
Posted June 04, 2022
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throet: Using Galaxy could be a temporary solution, but if I don't get to keep a copy of the installers, I won't bother using that method
You can just use Galaxy to download the offline installers and nothing else. Also you don't have to mess around with downloading multiple 4GB parts that way.
Posted June 04, 2022
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throet: I'm using Free Download Manager.

Trying to download No Man's Sky on a slow, metered connection.

In the past, I have not had significant issues with resuming downloads(sometimes it takes some fiddling with logging in again and replacing links within FDM), but tonight, this No Man's Sky download failed with an error 403(denied) at 1.36 GB, after only about an hour. I cannot get the download to resume, after repeated attempts. I've tried several different methods to harvest a good URL(including looking in Chrome's developer options).
Braggadar has the right of it, but maybe you are already doing that, in which case what you have downloaded may be corrupted and so not resumable.

In any case, some months ago GOG changed when URLs timeout, which is likely causing your issue in the first place. I seem to recall it is down to something like 10 minutes now, so it is no longer possible to load up (queue) multiple GOG files in FDM5 unless they are small files. After an hour, if the connection momentarily fails, you are past that timeout period, and the link (URL) has died.
Post edited June 04, 2022 by Timboli
Posted June 05, 2022
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throet: Using Galaxy could be a temporary solution, but if I don't get to keep a copy of the installers, I won't bother using that method
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eric5h5: You can just use Galaxy to download the offline installers and nothing else. Also you don't have to mess around with downloading multiple 4GB parts that way.
I wasn't aware this was an option with Galaxy. I assumed it was a storefront/installer/autoupdater combination. I absolutely can't do any kind of autoupdates(uses way too much data), so I won't usually even bother with such software.

I'll give this a try. Thank you.
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