One thing to note is that without running BGD I get a streaming icon while playing and when I use the BGD method I do not. I typically end up with a 20 GB client that gets trimmed to 17 GB after login. I've done similar before and the client works fine with only 3 errors in the extractors about missing files. This is probably why most of the 4.x patch websites used to say you didn't need previous patches. The more recent 4.x torrents now say 'direct' (and also 'use pieces 0') which to me indicates that it no longer downloads parts. Those torrents used to say 'streaming' in the URL. The older BGD was simply a torrent client that would only download the pieces you need. when you get patched to 4.3.4 let me know what happens when running wow.exe. In-ter-rest-ing.since your using the background downloader i would assume it would download whole files. It doesn't appear to be streaming but rather downloading the whole file(s). The files are art.mpq, sound.mpq, world.mpq, world2.mpq and wow-update-base-15211.mpq which incidentally total 8 GB in size. This is the second patch which the download is authorized and it actualy downloads something (another 8 GB). Up to patch 4.1 now and have a 20 GB client. One patch downloaded 8 GB and I still have 8 patches to go with 7 of them where the download doesn't error with 'not authorized'. Right now I'm trying a new method, only running the backgrounddownloader for certain patches.

If fact im willing to bet that after you get that downloaded, you will be able to log in to your private server and that the client will start streaming more files to get you up to the right size. HMMM.MrSmite we need to compare mfil/tfil files, cause i found a way to get a launching client, and this file size sounds exactly like what was downloaded for me.

I Wonder what's in it considering it's over 1GB in size.

It's interesting that in all the MFIL files, locale_enCN and locale_zhCN have an alternate.mpq which is not available to any other locale. The downloader must be doing some sort of 'diffing' but my skills with OllyDbg are pretty crap so I couldn't figure out what it's really doing. Well after pre-allocating all the files, it only comes out to 14 GB so I doubt that direct downloading these is the way to go. The filesize is equal to the size from the 15050 URL even though the size for the 12911 URL clearly indicates a different file.Ī theory I'm testing now is to direct download all the MPQ files in the 15595 MFIL file because it appears that the streaming versions of the files have been removed. Not surprisingly, this file comes up as 404 on all four of blizzard's distribution servers if you use 12911.streaming in the URL but changing it to 12911.direct nets you a healthy MPQ file with identical files as the ones with fileversion=15050.

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