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moulish · Jan 5, 2003, 12:11 PM

ok, are you ready for the weirdest and stupidest bug ever found on osX?

i can't download games. seriously. everytime i try to download a big file, it stop at the middle and open stuffit and generates an error. it also do this randomly, sometimes the file stop downloading at 70MB sometimes at 85MB, but i never, ever have been able to download the file completly. and it's not only for
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, it's for all big games.. weird huh?

is there a solution to this very weird problem or should i go rent a playstation game and accept the fact that mac gaming is the biggest joke for all reasons in the computer world

TheMosco · Jan 5, 2003, 12:14 PM

where are you trying to download games from? It might be a problem with that application and not Mac os X.

Developer · 01:56 PM

Are you sure it's only games, or might it be all large downloads maybe?

Try downloading with something more reliable than Internet Explorer (it tends to stop large downloads in the middle and declares them finished).

moulish · Jan 5, 2003, 12:21 PM

don't worry, i've tried! 3 differents place for that game. not to mention i've tried 3-4 different games and they all did that...

but as i said, it does this only for games, i've been to download big files, .sit and movies and everything as been just fine.. it's doing this weird thing for games!

i've found a copy of transmit in my applicatin folder, so i've tried with it, and after 10 minutes, it told me my time is done for the demo.. haha! nothing seems to work for me today!

Socially Awkward Solo · Jan 5, 2003, 12:24 PM

Perhaps your ISP sucks.

sushiism · Jan 5, 2003, 12:27 PM

hahaha oh dear whats next "OMGGOMGOGMOGM huge macosx.2.3 bug, i like dropped my imac off a building and it wont boot, I CANT BELEIVE APPLE WOULD RELEASE SOMETHING WITH THIS HUGE BUG!"
it so8unds like your isp sucks or the site your trying to get them from sucks

CharlesS · Jan 5, 2003, 12:57 PM

Originally posted by moulish:
don't worry, i've tried! 3 differents place for that game. not to mention i've tried 3-4 different games and they all did that...

but as i said, it does this only for games, i've been to download big files, .sit and movies and everything as been just fine.. it's doing this weird thing for games!

i've found a copy of transmit in my applicatin folder, so i've tried with it, and after 10 minutes, it told me my time is done for the demo.. haha! nothing seems to work for me today!

Why not try using a program that doesn't have a time-limit feature for the unregistered version?

Is this really an actual problem, or are you just posting this to be obnoxious?

Vanquish · Jan 5, 2003, 01:10 PM

moulish are you THAT stupid ? please. Read what Chris Gilpin said. anyway those files are probably corrupted.

SMacTech · Jan 5, 2003, 01:11 PM

Originally posted by moulish:

i've found a copy of transmit in my applicatin folder, so i've tried with it, and after 10 minutes, it told me my time is done for the demo.. haha! nothing seems to work for me today!

What are you using besides Transmit to download these games? Imagine that, a time limited trial that quits after 10 minutes and you say it doesn't work.
I just downloaded the Developer Tools from Apple at just over 300mb without a problem. It is the largest download I have ever done.

Developer · Jan 5, 2003, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by SMacTech:
I just downloaded the Developer Tools from Apple at just over 300mb without a problem. It is the largest download I have ever done.

It's not a game, is it?

Maybe that's why they removed that helicopter game demo from the developer tools.

Axel · Jan 5, 2003, 01:59 PM

Maybe you're the stupidest OS X user in the world, that's why...
You need to understand that no OS can make a difference between a game, a mail app, an audio file... It just sees a bunch of 0s and 1s as it downloadsthem to disk.
That means that the fact you haven't been able to download (full ? demos ?) games lately has NOTHING to do with the current state of mac gaming.
It could be a problem with the server you download from (maybe you could give us the adresses so we try for ourselves), the files could be damaged, etc...

SMacTech · Jan 5, 2003, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by Developer:
It's not a game, is it?

Maybe that's why they removed that helicopter game demo from the developer tools.

No, but since one can make a game with them, I thought there might have been some special invisible resource file contained in it. It must have some special compiled compressed signature that the browsers & ftp apps all see while downloading and immediately crash or stop.

moulish · 04:43 PM

problem solve, it was chimera! i've tried with IE and it's working. i hope apple will fix that bug before they release iBrowse 1.0 tuesday!

i know it's weird, but it's been doing that ONLY for games, i swear. maybe it has something to do with .sit or something.. anyway problem solved, let's play now!

and by the way, no i'm not stupid, i'm not not from USA

AKcrab · Jan 5, 2003, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by moulish:
and by the way, no i'm not stupid, i'm not from USA

11 year old male? You have your parents permission to use the computer? Sorry you got your problem fixed.

TheMosco · Jan 5, 2003, 05:06 PM

Originally posted by AKcrab:
11 year old male? You have your parents permission to use the computer? Sorry you got your problem fixed.

give the guy a break...

sushiism · Jan 5, 2003, 05:18 PM

bah its not a bug its your crappy isp

Camelot · Jan 5, 2003, 06:13 PM

Agreed. Give the guy a break.

I don't doubt this problem is network-related, and transient.

Being international, he has to face all kinds of internet issues that US-centric users never have to deal with.

Transatlantic and, especially, trans-pacific links are notoriously bad. Round-trip times to a good server network in Taiwan, for example, can exceed 700ms, and that's in addition to the last-mile/dialup link to the end user.

Trust me, as global as the internet might seem, it's a different world outside of the US.

TheMosco · Jan 5, 2003, 06:27 PM

Originally posted by Camelot:
Agreed. Give the guy a break.

I don't doubt this problem is network-related, and transient.

Being international, he has to face all kinds of internet issues that US-centric users never have to deal with.

Transatlantic and, especially, trans-pacific links are notoriously bad. Round-trip times to a good server network in Taiwan, for example, can exceed 700ms, and that's in addition to the last-mile/dialup link to the end user.

Trust me, as global as the internet might seem, it's a different world outside of the US.

well said.

some people in this forum need to go outside and get some air.

AKcrab · Jan 5, 2003, 06:33 PM

Originally posted by moulish:
and by the way, no i'm not stupid, i'm not not from USA

So this was supposed to read "and by the way, no i'm not stupid, and i'm not from USA"?
As it reads, it's a reason for not being stupid....

TheMosco · Jan 5, 2003, 06:43 PM

but i believe he meant that english was not his first language therefore some might have made judgements thinking he was from the US.

it might be what you said, but you shouldn't jump to conclutions.

ZackS · Jan 5, 2003, 08:57 PM

It'll be a mat like twister with all different conclusions you can jump to!