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I recently upgraded to windows 10 and decided to do a clean install. Yesterday I downloaded (non-beta) PwS and decided to see how long a non-premium full-install would take.
The whole process, from clicking the "Install" button to getting a "Join/Launch" button took 5 hours. My internet went down for ~10min in the middle of that due to scheduled maintenance but PwS even resumed downloads after the connection was restored. It threw one non-fatal exception but did not crash a single time. Download speed was around 1.3-1.4MBps (i.e. 10.4-11.2Mbps) for most of the time. (Math cecks out: 18.7GB of mods @1.3MBps should take 4h. Looks like compression and slow-downs just about cancelled out). The downloading portion took about 4.5h while the final extraction took 30min. Note that the mods were downloaded to an SSD so I assume extraction could be considerably slower if you're installing to an HDD.
In general, the software ran a lot better than I expected it to. However the 0-to-game time of 5 hours is, imho, far too large. Of course many players that have played mil-sim Arma3 previously to finding 3CB will already have many of the largest mods (RHS, TP) downloaded. On the other hand we're seeing quite a lot of Recruits come into 3CB without previous A3 milsim experience so I'm going to assume quite a few of those will have sat through these 5 hours just to check out our public.
My conclusion is that PwS, if installed cleanly on a clean system, runs fairly stably and is in no way whatsoever 'unusable'. On the other hand the download-rate limitation for non-premium members (and resulting download time) is a much larger problem than I'd previously realized.
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