cosmo.civ5
Chieftain
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2010
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- 5
I bought a hard copy of Civlization 5 instead of buying a digital copy from D2D or Steam. I was trying to avoid the long download time because of my rather limited internet speed.
Lo and behold... as soon as I insert the DVD into my computer, it starts to download the game through Steam. I estimate it's going to be a few days before the entire thing is finished. I was hoping to play the game tonight, not this weekend.
A quick check of the contents of the DVD show that there is in fact a copy of Civ5 in there. It's over 3 GB big, but for some reason Civ5 has opted to download from STEAM instead of just copying the files off the DVD.
Can anybody make any sense out of this? Is there any way to force Civ5 to install from the hardcopy instead of Steam? It's so frustrating to see that 3 GB file in the DVD completely ignored by STEAM. Not to mention STEAM overwhelming my network bandwidth for the next few days.
Lo and behold... as soon as I insert the DVD into my computer, it starts to download the game through Steam. I estimate it's going to be a few days before the entire thing is finished. I was hoping to play the game tonight, not this weekend.
A quick check of the contents of the DVD show that there is in fact a copy of Civ5 in there. It's over 3 GB big, but for some reason Civ5 has opted to download from STEAM instead of just copying the files off the DVD.
Can anybody make any sense out of this? Is there any way to force Civ5 to install from the hardcopy instead of Steam? It's so frustrating to see that 3 GB file in the DVD completely ignored by STEAM. Not to mention STEAM overwhelming my network bandwidth for the next few days.