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TORRENT MEGATHREAD - Full Game Downloads!

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DVD Folder or ISO?

  • DVD Folder

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  • ISO

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
OK, how the crap can I make this download go faster? I don't get this bit torrent crap.
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The more people who download/upload ... the faster it'll go for everybody.

Bit Torrent's design works by breaking apart a big file into hundreds of little fragment files and distributing those. As people join the torrent, the master server determines which fragments aren't in the torrent (the 'swarm') and distributes those. The idea is to distribute all of the file at once to a bunch of people, then those people redistribute the file amongst themselves in a network. Your software collects these fragments and pieces it back together into the original large file that the parent server was sharing.

Oversimplification: A 100Mb file is broken into ten 10Mb pieces, and a different 10Mb piece goes out once to ten different people. Those ten people now connect to each other to distribute the missing pieces amongst themselves without needing to put anymore load on the master server that started the process.

Distributing large files this way is far faster and requires less bandwidth at the top, but in order for it to work it requires that everybody stay in the swarm until their ratio is at least 1:1. Theoretically, if the parents' share ratio was 1:0, then everybody else in the world would need to share at a 1:1 ratio with the last person receiving 0:1. In this scenario, any data could be duplicated world wide at wire speed provided people observe the netiquette of sharing 1:1.

Torrents, by their design, cannot work if people simply leech.
 
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File Permissions Error

This could be caused by the type of File System you have. To download a file greater than 4 GB you would need a NTFS. Just a idea not sure if that is your problem. You can convert your existing file system from FAT32 to NTFS. I would encourage you to research it before you did it. I don't want to be giving anyone advise in error. Good Luck and PM if you need help.

- osugoose
 
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I got a smaller version of the Iowa game set to upload for you folks. Link's on the first page if you're interested. Quality will probably be less, so I guess this is for the people who want to keep a copy on their computers.
 
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You guys, listen:

It's a .iso file. That means it's a disc image. You need DAEMON TOOLS in order to play it. That's a program. You then use DAEMON TOOLS to "Load Image." Select the Iowa.ISO or whatever, and voila, it's like a DVD.
 
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Oneshot said:
You guys, listen:

It's a .iso file. That means it's a disc image. You need DAEMON TOOLS in order to play it. That's a program. You then use DAEMON TOOLS to "Load Image." Select the Iowa.ISO or whatever, and voila, it's like a DVD.
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What the hell are "DAEMON TOOLS"? I can't play them in Real Player or Media Player? Is that what you are saying?
 
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Right, an *.iso file is NOT a media file. It is simply an "image" of the DVD. Think of it this way, the *.iso file is a digital representation of a physical, real-life DVD. Everything that would be put on DVD that you could hold in your hand, is in the *.iso file. The only way you can view the movie is if you burn the *.iso image onto a DVD (thus getting a fully working, regular dvd with chapters and everything). However, you can TRICK you're computer into thinking the *.iso file is a REAL dvd by getting DaemonTools. DaemonTools creates a virtual drive that will show up in My Computer as another DVD-ROM drive. Windows can't tell that it really isn't a physical drive. Then, with DaemonTools, you can load up an *.iso image into that virtual drive, and windows will think it has a DVD copy of the game running on its computer somewhere.

You can get DaemonTools here.

If you don't want to deal with all that, the smaller version of the Iowa game is a regular old divx file. However, *.iso images are best if you want to burn and archive games to DVD's.
 
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