battlefield 3 wont install from the disc on my pc only installs origin and then wants me to download the game.?

Question

every time i run the autorun or setup it just opens up the origin program that i installed already and makes me download it and its gonna take like 3 hours...instead of installing from the disc.

Answer 1

The game installs two different Ways..



If you have the Disc you can install from them, but what happens is it turns Origin on and instead of pulling the download files from Origin server it pulls it from your Disc.



the 2nd way is if you do not have the disc it will pull the files from the server..



So if you do not have a good internet connection do not worry, as long as you have the Discs it will only take like a half hour..

Answer 2

***Ok, to all the people out there that are getting INSANELY slow install/downloads speeds when installing from a disk:***



I just got off the phone with EA customer support. After convincing the rep that there was no way my install was "expanding files" at 500 kb/s, he took a look at my activation key, after I gave it to him. He informed me that my activation code had been picked up as a digital download order, rather than a DVD order. This, apparently, directs Origin on what to do - which in this case was do a full 11gb download. He said he could give me another key that would apply as a DVD purchase instead, and allow a much faster install speed.



He provided me another key within minutes, and now I just installed the game in 25 minutes flat as a result. I urge you to call and get this resolved if you don't feel like waiting 15 hours for a download. I only waited about 30-35 minutes in the queue.



I hope this helps all those people out there that were just as confused as I was. Cheers.

Answer 3

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO----IS WHEN ORIGIN PULLS UP AND DISPLAYS WHERE THE GAME WILL BE DOWNLOADED TO AND WHAT DRIVE. IS "CLICK" ON THE ORIGIN SETTINGS BUTTON AND SELECT OFFLINE. IF DISC 1 IS IN THE DRIVE IT WILL BEGIN DOWNLOADING FROM THE DISK.THERE U GO!!!!!

Answer 4

The solution above worked best for me...

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I found taking the extra step of copying the disc onto your hard drive speeds up the "fake downloading" stage which Origin takes you through. Origin was gonna take 300hrs to "download" (ie: copy from dvd disc to my hdd), but Windows Explorer only took about 15mins to copy from my dvd (as it should). Next, Origin decided it needed to take another 15min to "download" (which it didn't need to) it from my HDD, and even then the d/l speed slowed right down to a trickle as if it actually was downloading from the net (modem unplugged whole time). A quick pause - unpause of the "d/l" fixed that and it continued at high speed. It still baffles me why this stage was necessary... This is the first game i've ever come across where you need 3rd party software, and an account, AND requires you to "download" your game from DVD (or ur HDD) even before it gets to the "install" stage. I know all about Steam etc... but at least its much easier to work around the whole download thingy and you can install your games straight off your disc at a descent speed.... The only gripe i have with steam is their piss poor attempt at "offline mode" which still prevents you from playing games when your offline. ie: "game isn't updated" when it is, or BOPs zombies solo can only be played when online etc....



WHY CANT ORIGIN GIVE US 2 BUTTONS ?? then all this confusion could be solved.

Button 1- Purchase, Download, and Install Battlefield 3

Button 2- Install Battlefied 3 from disc or HDD



Anyways I finally got BF3 installed... It stuffed me around on the update, saying the game wasn't installed when it just had been. A quick "repair install" from within Origin fixed this and was then able to play the game....

((no comment on the sp campaign except... more bugs than me mother's undies...

p.s i found a little fix for all the audio and sound effects that were missing from the game)) http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654347700919581/

Answer 5

yep do as previous people just said... just close origin, right clicking on icon, then just rerun autorun.. started downloading of disc... sweet

Answer 6

Just reboot but dont log into Origin. Run it from the disk and login when it asks and it will figure it out. EA also charges people to run dedicated servers, the nerve. No AI programming cause theres no bots. No dedicated EA servers. What are they doing? This game is so buggy. Its just a crap excuse to push Origin. EA is disgusting and a blight to gamers and developers too.

Answer 7

It installs it through origin and will have a "download speed" but it really is pulling it from the disc. The strange part is when you hit about 48% and all of a sudden it goes from 10 Mb/S to 300 kb/s which looks like you are downloading from the internet.



I unplugged my router and it still kept installing so I know it's not actually downloading anything. Anyway, it does take a while to install so just be patient.

Answer 8

A buddy and I copied contents of the dvd to a folder on the HD and launched it directly from there. it was 100% faster that way. like an hour instead of six, but you still need to download the 475 meg update from EA so :-(

Answer 9

Was confused/irritated at first as well but previous replies are correct... I registered with Origin and it's currently installing. There is no activity on my modem - it's pulling all content off the DVD.



eta: Seth, it has to install 11+ Gigs of content. Give it a bit... it'll take a while. This isn't pacman :)

Answer 10

I have the physical discs, as well, but whenever I try to install, it loads Origin and begins downloading. I got to about 2.4 percent and had at least 6 hours remaining when I decided to test the previous answers and took the disc out. The download continued, meaning that it's not actually downloading from the disc, as the disc was in my hand. I then disconnected my internet cable and the download stopped.



How does one actually install this game from the disc? The instructions that came with the disc result in the Origin installation. When I try the autorun, it installs origin. When I try setup.exe, it installs Origin.

Answer 11

This also happened to me. Insert disc, origin installs and begins downloading from the internet (slow). What I did, and I hope this works for you guys too, was cancel the download and completely exit origin by right clicking the icon. Then I ran autorun again and this time when origin opened up it started installing from the disc. Much faster.

Answer 12

I had the same slow connection problem. My was at 11 hours to download -_-. I canceled the download, and exited orgin. Went into my computer, right clicked on the icon for bf3, and install program. Clicked the language and what not and orgin opened back up. I heard my disc drive start humming and my download time is down to 20 minutes! So i guess try and closing everything out. And restarted it all and see if that helps. Either way orgin/ea can go eat a d!ick, this is ridiculous for all this effort to install a game!

Answer 13

The game is installed via Origin. When the installation/download bar reaches about 55% (or so), it will prompt you to insert disc 2. After its done, it will download additional stuffs which took me about 20 minutes at 600kb/s.

Everything took me about an hour and a half from popping the disc in to running the game.

Answer 14

previous post deleted



EA still sucks though



UPDATE:

Somebody mentioned earlier copying the DVD's to disk and then running the install from there. One thing to add and its kind of important.



Download the newest OriginSetup.exe file (8.3.1.9) from "http://origin.com/download" and put it into the folder you copied the DVD files to. The location should be :\BF3 Install Files folder name\Autorun\Origin. When you copy disk 1 onto your hard drive it will copy an older version of OriginSetup.exe that screws up the install process and forces the installed version of Origin to download from the internet even though you have the disks in hand.



Be sure to copy disk 1 into the "BF3 Install Files folder name" listed above (whatever you name it). This includes all of the files on disk 1 including the 8.1gb data.z01 file, THEN copy ONLY the data.zip file (5.63 gb in size) from disk 2 into the same folder as all the disk 1 files (leaving the inf files).



Once all is copied, make sure you have uninstalled the older version of Origin from your machine and then run the Autorun.exe file from the "BF3 Install Files folder name" mentioned above. It will run the newly copied 8.3.1.9 version which will then use the files you copied into the "BF3 Install Files folder name" mentioned above.



Once that completes and Origin launches, input your username and password to login and then click the install link for the game (it will use the same key you used in earlier failed installs so you won't have to reinput it)



The install will go a LOT faster and once installed you WILL have to download the 472.1 MB update.



Then on to gaming....

Answer 15

Yea, WHAT THE F@#$ is the point in driving out to the store to purchase a game only to find out that you have to install the F#$K#$G thing from the internet!!!!! I have relatively slow connection and don't want to wait 4 hours to play a game that I purchased on release day....



Edit:

Ok, so from what I've found is that it is actually downloading from the disc, but it does it very slowly. I've got a 16x DVD drive and it averages at around 600 KB/sec download. (Which is faster than my internet average download speed) And its estimating 6 hour download time soooo..... This is stupid....

Answer 16

Ok I got it to download after talking to EA. I got my disks today from amazon. So first thing you do is open origin, make account blah blah and go to the games page. Pop in disk 1 and then look at that origin page for as small gear symbol in top right corner. Click it and press redeem code. Enter code with dashes. Now click next. When it gives you no other options other than enter more codes go back to the gear and click refresh page. Now you will see BF3 icon. Click it and start the snails pace download.

Yay!

Now all that I have to hope for is that this will let me play... but knowing EA I will probably have to download a ton of other crap just to get to play online.

Answer 17

Indeed if you find that it is not installing from the disc (low "download" speed), cancel it and execute autorun off the disc.



Truly an extremely bad installation experience from EA to pimp Origin. Sadly, I want to play this game more than my disgust with EA.

Answer 18

A poster on the EA Forums suggested you close Origin, and open Origin as an administrator. (ie. Right click on the origin .exe and choose 'Run as Admin'), and then trying to run the autorun.exe. It's worked for me, and you can double check by trying to remove the disk out of the tray whilst 'downloading', to see if it is running off the internet or the CD. All the Best! EA has really screwed up this time.

Answer 19

Do exactly what the guy/gal above me said. I cancelled the download and closed Origin. Then reopened it through Autorun from the DVD drive and voila! It started installing from the disk. It took about 30 mins.

Answer 20

Installed the game and Origin off the Disc. Installed the latest driver updates from Nvidia as well. When I went to press "Play" I get the error "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action." Do I need to reinstall the game? Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 21

What I did is install origin out of the autorun folder and setup account etc. then close Origin completeley then run setup.exe off the disc and it'll re-open origin and it's installing from dvd now for me.

Answer 22

I too am trying to install this game. The disc drive light has yet to come on and the download keeps pausing so I guess I can't install. This is so much BS...

Answer 23

I tried and it marks it as downloading but it is actually taking it from the disc

my download speed is usually about 768kb/s and it was 'downloading' at 8.2mb/s which is the transfer rate from my DVD reader to a HDD

Answer 24

...Yeah...I hardly have any internet connection--why cant I just install from the disc???????