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I have no idea where to get support for this but I guess I'll just ask here... No other indication of this problem and the search function doesn't give me anything. I doubt I'm the only one with the problem but hey...
I find the Downloader application to be very slow, unresponsive and downright buggy. The problem worsens with higher download speeds. Today, I had the luxury to have a 10 MB/s download link (university campus network hooray), only to find the downloader being unresponsive and downright crashing. With unresponsive I mean that clicking on a button does not provide any feedback until at least 5 seconds later, sometimes creeping up to half a minute or more. Meanwhile memory usage grows and in the extreme case of the very high bandwidth of today the thing just crashed eventually, I assume from an out of memory error (I'm going to guess it was around the 2GB mark of memory used).
Downloading the games with Firefox worked perfectly, without insane memory usage and unresponsive controls. Of course, removing the games from the downloader queue proved to be quite difficult with such an unresponsive UI...
I'm using KDE (OpenSUSE 11.2) so this might also be an Adobe Air bug. I'd like to hear what others think and of course a solution/workaround/explanation would be mostly useful. Thanks!
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Adobe AIR sucks. If you have a reliable connection there's no reason not no download through the browser.
Try downloading the beta of Adobe Air 2; it is much fast than earlier versions, and seems quite stable. Your experience may vary, but I have had good fortune with it.
Well, at least it is an idea! :o)
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Amarth: Downloading the games with Firefox worked perfectly, without insane memory usage and unresponsive controls.

So... why don't you just do that? I've used the downloader precisely once (don't exactly recall why), and I have no desire to ever use it again, nor any pressing need to do so.
You don't need the Air-based downloader. Just download through your browser (but please don't use IE6 :p ) and it will go OK.
Still, if you want to discuss and search about this problem, here's a thread about the downloader:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_com_downloader_sneak_peek
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Amarth: I have no idea where to get support for this but I guess I'll just ask here... No other indication of this problem and the search function doesn't give me anything. I doubt I'm the only one with the problem but hey...
I find the Downloader application to be very slow, unresponsive and downright buggy. The problem worsens with higher download speeds. Today, I had the luxury to have a 10 MB/s download link (university campus network hooray), only to find the downloader being unresponsive and downright crashing. With unresponsive I mean that clicking on a button does not provide any feedback until at least 5 seconds later, sometimes creeping up to half a minute or more. Meanwhile memory usage grows and in the extreme case of the very high bandwidth of today the thing just crashed eventually, I assume from an out of memory error (I'm going to guess it was around the 2GB mark of memory used).
Downloading the games with Firefox worked perfectly, without insane memory usage and unresponsive controls. Of course, removing the games from the downloader queue proved to be quite difficult with such an unresponsive UI...
I'm using KDE (OpenSUSE 11.2) so this might also be an Adobe Air bug. I'd like to hear what others think and of course a solution/workaround/explanation would be mostly useful. Thanks!

I don't know much about Adobe Air, but if it still doesn't work for you, try the other download links. I got 2mb per second while downloading some games from here!
Get Opera. Use Opera. End of problem. Who in the 9 circles of Hell uses the GOG downloader, anyways? :?