how do I insall BF3 from amazon pre download

[rothchilds]

I looked in the BF3 thread above, but its 160 posts and I cant find anything. When I click on setup in my file, it takes me to origin and wants me to download it again. wtf am I doing wrong

 

[paperfist]

http://www.amazon.com/forum/video%20...x3DNSUOZ96OHQM

the post from drumstyx might help you out.

Damn I feel like a dum, dum. I pre-ordered from Amazon and just figured out you can punch in the key into Origin and download it directly from there instead of Amazon

 

[Northern Lawn]

Steam has made us loathsome and lazy.

 

[Elganja]

http://www.amazon.com/forum/video%20...x3DNSUOZ96OHQM

the post from drumstyx might help you out.

Damn I feel like a dum, dum. I pre-ordered from Amazon and just figured out you can punch in the key into Origin and download it directly from there instead of Amazon

you can... that is what I did. You can get the product code from amazon by going to your "my games" then redeem it in origin

 

[DJ-phYre]

When installing from Amazon, it will "appear" that it is downloading, but I noticed after my 3rd try that it was going 60-70MB/s. With my 16mbit connection it became apparent that it wasn't actually "downloading" (more like extracting).

This was important to me b/c this month I built a new gaming PC and have actually downloaded and installed games multiple times after many formats (upgraded to a SSD recently as well) and I have 15GB left of my Comcast cap

I had downloaded the game here at work so I could simply install on my PC at home

 

[sygyzy]

I downloaded it from Amazon then added the key in Origin which then tried to download it again but luckily it used the data file from Amazon. Now I am not sure how many 10GB copies I have. Nor do I know how the "keep setup files" feature works. Can anyone tell me the default location for the install files and what I can keep and what I can delete?

 

[96Firebird]

...it became apparent that it wasn't actually "downloading" (more like extracting).

This. It isn't actually downloading, it is just transferring the files over. It might take a while, on my slow HDDs it only went at about 13MB/s.