Bitraider?

[Jackyrulez]

I have the game and sub for years off steam and whatnot my question is that I heard steam has a new launcher for ToR so does this launcher use Bitraider or has hell frozen over and no bitraider in sight?

[gnnuu]

they confirmed today on stream no bitraider in steam version :)

[Revy]

This is why moving to steam is the BEST move

[Jackyrulez]

Yeah it is. Thanks for letting me know. I am going to spin around in my Wheelchair like I am dancing and cheering! NO MORE BITRAIDER YAYAY!

[Saevurr]

The funny part is, the Steam version still downloads the Bitraider software, it just sits dormant within your Steam SWTOR folder.

Also, you could have easily disabled Bitraider from your original game via editing your launcher.settings file, and it would install the full game to your computer, instead of streaming it.

[Avalanche]

The one thing i am disappointed with is that i don't get the full download speed i did with the bitraider version.......its limited to 7Mbit/s give or take.

[psytic]

Originally posted by Jackyrulez:

I have the game and sub for years off steam and whatnot my question is that I heard steam has a new launcher for ToR so does this launcher use Bitraider or has hell frozen over and no bitraider in sight?

Whats the story on Bitraider? What does it do? Why do people not like it? Genuinely wondering.

[Saevurr]

Originally posted by psytic:

Originally posted by Jackyrulez:

I have the game and sub for years off steam and whatnot my question is that I heard steam has a new launcher for ToR so does this launcher use Bitraider or has hell frozen over and no bitraider in sight?

Whats the story on Bitraider? What does it do? Why do people not like it? Genuinely wondering.

Bitraider is a sub-software within the SWTOR folder that allowed only the essential files to be installed onto your computer, while you are streaming 70% of the actual game. The game used to be a full install way back when, and then the Devs decided they wanted to switch the game to streaming as a standard install, to help save space on player computers as well as allow you to play the game, while it is performing a patch update.

This was a cause of major negative feedback because the game played via stream, ran slower, had lag issues, and took a lot longer to update and patch the game. Players could also not play some of their characters because the game was patching in the background.

Players who wanted to fix those issues, had to manually disable Bitraider via editing one of the startup files, which forced the Launcher.exe program to automatically download the entire full game to their computer.

[Saevurr]

Originally posted by Avalanche:

The one thing i am disappointed with is that i don't get the full download speed i did with the bitraider version.......its limited to 7Mbit/s give or take.

That's not entirely true, I've reached up to 20-25 MBps (not Mbps) when patching while having Bitraider disabled. Normally it's a steady 10-15 MB/ps download on the files for me. I finish patching within a minute 90% of the time.

[$2 Hero]

yep i tried to uninstall bitraider and it seemed like a hassle, i just delete everything and let steam do fresh install. bitraider is trash

[Saevurr]

Originally posted by Bann:

yep i tried to uninstall bitraider and it seemed like a hassle, i just delete everything and let steam do fresh install. bitraider is trash

Just make sure you copy all of your game settings and GUI settings from your older SWTOR folder to your new Steam SWTOR folder so you don't have to configure everything again from scratch.

[$2 Hero]

Originally posted by Saevurr:

Originally posted by Bann:

yep i tried to uninstall bitraider and it seemed like a hassle, i just delete everything and let steam do fresh install. bitraider is trash

Just make sure you copy all of your game settings and GUI settings from your older SWTOR folder to your new Steam SWTOR folder so you don't have to configure everything again from scratch.

too late

dang i assumed that was all tied to the cloud or something. eh its all good, just gotta set up my skill bars i think. im a simple man

[Jackyrulez]

Reason I hate Bitraider for ToR is it takes soo dang long to download small patches. Say a 50 mb patch would take 30 mins or so to download even on a 300 mbps connection.

[lefty1117]

I thought Bitraider only streamed the files for initial install but once they were downloaded they ran from your PC ...