Uninstall and Downloads?

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    Hello everyone!  I am a huge fan of Sins, however, all games eventually lose their shine after much play, and I now wish to uninstall it and give it a rest for a few months.  I also have another reason for removing the game from my computer: memory shortage.  I need to make some space on my hard drive until I can purchase some external memory.  However, I have a problem.  High-speed Internet is the stuff of myth and legend in my neck of the woods, and I am leery of removing the game because of the many updates I have needed to download.  A couple of them were quite difficult to obtain, and bumped us down to dial-up speed for a day.  This is not an acceptable occurrence for me as I take online courses at a local college; I cannot afford to suffer any more Internet outages.  Is there a way to download my already downloaded updates to disk, so that I do not have to re-download them from Impulse the next time I install the game?  Do I find the updates by uninstalling the game and then checking to see what files remain on my computer?

    Thank y'all, and have a good evening!

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Impulse Archive is your answer.

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Well, the updates aren't really kept seprate from the main game. When the update changes a file, they just save over the old file. If you want to avoid installing from the internet again, you can make an archieve of Sins in Impulse, updates and all. However, this will need to be on your computer or a flash drive, so it won't help your memory problem (I'm not sure how big the archieve is). So I guess you'll have to decide what is more important to you, memory space or internet speed.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

    Thanks y'all; your advice is a big help!  I'll check out the Impulse Archive and see how much space it will require.  Maybe it'll all fit on a thumb drive if I'm lucky...

    If not, I guess that I'll cross my fingers a little while longer and see if they bring high-speed Internet my way. :'(