I am having trouble downloading the Unreal engine. The launcher states that it will take 9 hours at 120 kB/s to complete (i know this is pretty slow but it is normal for where i live). When i come back after the allotted time, it is only at around 12%. I let the download go for another day and it is only at 15%. At this rate it will take months. What can i do to fix this?
Thanks
Not sure if there’s a way to speed up the download.
(8.5 gigabytes) / (120 kbps) = 6.55864198 days
But You could grab a GitHub source version, it’s only 3GB IIRC, and You have to compile it manually (which is pretty simple actually).
3 gigs = 3145728 KB
3145728 KB/ 120 = 26,114.4 sec
convert this to hours and you should get a little over 7. I was guessing when i said 9 lol. but still taking over 7 hours definitely.
Thanks for the recommendation to GitHub. I’ll see how it goes.
You could just type “3GB/120KBps” in google search
(3 gigabytes) / (120 KBps) = 6.94444444 hours
And Yes, I’ve made a mistake when typed kbps at first time
(8 gigabytes) / (120 KBps) = 18.5185185 hours
Grab a release here:
https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases
Extract to any folder and run Setup.bat.
When it finishes to download files run GenerateProjectFiles.bat.
That will make UE4.sln file that You could open in VS2015 and compile.
You only need to compile Development Editor (or Debug Editor) for Editor to work.
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