07-03-2016, 05:35 AM
Argh!
>Bought The Secret World after trying the trial (turns out it DID have one) because it was on sale and I was enjoying it.
>Came with free 30 day membership, which is basically premium stuff
>Played a couple days
>Now at Dad's for probably a week or so
>Need to install it on my Laptop
>About 20-40 MB short of minimum VRAM requirements
>Never stopped me before
>Download game
>Download fails
>Try again
>It works
>Run installer
>Goes fine
>Goes to update DirectX
>Update fails
>Turns out I need to update my computer and probably my drivers
>Go to Windows Update
>Start only the important updates
>
>Hasn't even started downloading, much less installing. 0KB Downloaded, 0% complete.
>ಠ_ಠ
>Windows Update is either very VERY slow, or completely nonfunctional
The world really wants me to waste a large portion of my one-time-only premium membership (because I'm almost certainly not going to spend money on that!) Arghhh... This day has been a barrel of annoyances.
>Bought The Secret World after trying the trial (turns out it DID have one) because it was on sale and I was enjoying it.
>Came with free 30 day membership, which is basically premium stuff
>Played a couple days
>Now at Dad's for probably a week or so
>Need to install it on my Laptop
>About 20-40 MB short of minimum VRAM requirements
>Never stopped me before
>Download game
>Download fails
>Try again
>It works
>Run installer
>Goes fine
>Goes to update DirectX
>Update fails
>Turns out I need to update my computer and probably my drivers
>Go to Windows Update
>Start only the important updates
>
>Hasn't even started downloading, much less installing. 0KB Downloaded, 0% complete.
>ಠ_ಠ
>Windows Update is either very VERY slow, or completely nonfunctional
The world really wants me to waste a large portion of my one-time-only premium membership (because I'm almost certainly not going to spend money on that!) Arghhh... This day has been a barrel of annoyances.