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[themoob]

Every single patch my game breaks, so I need to reinstall and redownload everything. I get the MD5 Hash error every time too, but it only lasts for a day or two. Now, I get it EVERY SINGLE TIME. I've been trying 9-10 times per day since the patch was released, deleted temp data, turned off firewalls, run as admin... nothing is working.

[themoob]

Nope? Nothing?

[Heketon]

Something in your data stream is flipping a bit or more during your download. When it was happening to me, one of the TV cables in my house was broken and acting like an antenna. You might try asking your internet provider if they can test your connection.

[themoob]

Heketon, on 25 February 2013 - 01:08 AM, said:

Something in your data stream is flipping a bit or more during your download. When it was happening to me, one of the TV cables in my house was broken and acting like an antenna. You might try asking your internet provider if they can test your connection.

Had to do that a couple of weeks ago for unrelated reasons and it was fine then, don't think that would have changed by now. Mind you I've been getting this problem for MONTHS, but usually after a couple of days it'll just magically work again. This time, no luck. No other internet errors elsewhere either.

[Heketon]

Hrmmm.

Have you seen this thread? Or this one? The one about shutting down anti-virus has merit. I also wonder if your power is clean. (You probably know this, but if your surge protector's light is out, the thing isn't working anymore.)

Also, see if your hard drive is healthy. You might try GSmartControl to get more details on your drive's health.

I fear reinstallation may be in your future. Again.

[themoob]

Heketon, on 25 February 2013 - 05:00 AM, said:

Hrmmm.

Have you seen this thread? Or this one? The one about shutting down anti-virus has merit. I also wonder if your power is clean. (You probably know this, but if your surge protector's light is out, the thing isn't working anymore.)

Also, see if your hard drive is healthy. You might try GSmartControl to get more details on your drive's health.

I fear reinstallation may be in your future. Again.

Yeah power is clean (just bought a new surge protector the other week) and never had anti-virus on. Hard drive is all good too.

[Heketon]

Have you tried downloading something with a MD5 hash like Teamspeak3 to see if your hashes match on something else?

[themoob]

Heketon, on 25 February 2013 - 05:18 PM, said:

Have you tried downloading something with a MD5 hash like Teamspeak3 to see if your hashes match on something else?

I already have Teamspeak installed, but when it patches I've never had an issue with it.

[themoob]

Sent a support ticket too. But I assume I'll get a "good luck, not our fault you live in Australia". So has anyone figured out any workarounds? Surely I'm not the only one who deals with this.

[Heketon]

Oh, you're in Australia? Pfth. Never mind then.

Regarding Teamspeak. You won't get an active hash check. I just meant that if you download a fresh copy, hash it and then you can compare it to what they post on their site. This way you can localize the problem to just MWO or if there is a more widespread issue.

[themoob]

Tried that. No errors. It's just MWO

[themoob]

Support replied once asking some vague questions... never heard back again. Usually customer service is stellar, but it seems this problem is just being ignored.

[Flapdrol]

you could try booting windows in safemode with networking, at least that way you'll probably not have much getting in the way.

then run the installer from there.

[Heketon]

That's not a bad idea, actually.

[themoob]

Good idea... but not needed. For some reason the server crash today fixed whatever problem it was having. I have no idea why or how. But I'm going with it.