Why does Origin do this?

[Jerakl]

Rant/angry paragraph incoming

 

 

So tonight it's like 1:45 AM, so I'm like hell I need to install that BF4 update. I load up origin, oh looksy it's 1.29GB, this shouldn't take long! 2 hours later I am now sitting here typing this and it's not even 10% done. Well actually it's at 10% as I'm typing this, I just checked. Now you may ask, Jerakl how bad is your internet that you can't download 1.2 GB in 2 hours? Well here's the answer; It's not slow at all. My ETA for install was less then an hour. Less then one hour. How did it go so horribly wrong you may ask? Let me tell you. Origin does this completely idiotic thing where when you don't have the download list window on top it will throttle down your download speed on Origin to 0. That's right, if you don't have the window in view at all times it will basically pause the download. Unbeknownst to this I turned off every other network using program on my laptop. All of them, I even put steam in offline mode (I did this because I noticed that it has particularly slow download speeds whenever I went to check on it). After all that I launched burnout paradise thinking "oh, it'll only take like 50 minutes, I could go get some mark off on my license!". How wrong I was. So now I'm sitting here looking at the Origin downloader thing and noticing that the download speed is 735 KB/s. The maximum I got while playing Bunout Paradise (With the game launched but alt-tabbed) was 400 KB/s. Now you may say, Jerakl that's incredibly slow! And I will respond with, yes it is! It doesn't help that I'm on the other side of the house from my wireless modem/router/whatever and the signal has to pass through 4+ walls and a floor.

 

Moral of the story:

Origin may not be as bad as uplay, but it's really, really stupidly made. (Not like anyone reading this wouldn't know that).

 

Anyways I felt like sharing my frustrations. Thoughts?

 

Mods:

I put this in off topic because while it is relevant to tech it's probably not important enough to be in General discussion. If you feel it should be moved to PC gaming or another subforum (besides spam please ), feel free to do so! (Not like I have to give you permission, lol.

[SpagettiNinja]

Cant say i have had this problem. I was playing other games when i downloaded BF4 and BF3 at the time, and it was as fast as i would expect.

[Jerakl]

Cant say i have had this problem. I was playing other games when i downloaded BF4 and BF3 at the time, and it was as fast as i would expect.

Yeah it was rather strange, on my desktop upstairs I can download stuff on Origin and play skyrim at the same time without this happening.

[Guest]

I never had a single problem with origin downloads, if the disk that you're downloading the game onto is busy while you're downloading (because you're playing a game that is installed on the same drive at the same time, etc.) then it's normal for the download to throttle. Steam does the exact same thing.

[AlRayes_BRN]

I hate origin more than uplay .. they force me to use the Euro currency which is more expensive than dollars

[NeatSquidYT]

I don't like Origin, why can't EA just get around their fucking stupid heads that nobody likes it. They'd get more money from putting their games on Steam.

[Jerakl]

Guys, guys get this. I just checked the download, it went from ~35% to 15%.

[colonel_mortis]

That's weird. I have felt that the origin DL servers have (in the last year or two) have been amazing (much better than my experiences with steam's, but that has improved recently) and it's always been able to saturate my connection (which is 100 Mb/s at the moment). The only thing I can suggest, which would also cause

Guys, guys get this. I just checked the download, it went from ~35% to 15%.

is that perhaps the network has a fault somewhere (either in your network, the ISPs, or EA's) which is causing packet corruption but is not being detected by the network interface. This would cause it to fully download a file, check that it's correct, discover that it;s not, then start again.

[Biased Opinion]

what a strange issue, I have always had lightning fast downloads from origin(only good thing about it).