It was on the same machine, i've never seen windows defender slowdown a download. I have FTTP and unlimited downloads, Telstra is my provider.
All downloads from other sources are fine.
My 980 pro nvme ssd is brand new, and is healthy acording to samsung magician.
My system is on a asus crosshair viii hero wifi on the latest bios (3904)
R9 5900x cpu, 32gb of gskill tridentz neo (F4-3600C16Q)
soundblaster AE7, and a 1080ti aorus extreme edition.
Windows 10 pro
Maybe my provider has an issue with pathing to your server, idk. Now it is downloaded i'll just make a new 7Zip archive called BattleForge.7z which i'll use for future installs if problems arise.
That should solve this issue for now.
Also would running the installer from a different hdd be effecting it at all? , i would think probably not.
The reason i did reinstall is because it had crashed a few times in a row, in a short time period, like 3 games in a row, and 1 time in the forge in between 2 of those games.
I had never crashed like this before. if i recall i've had 1 crash in my entire play history.
I had recently installed the latest nvidia driver 511.23, i used ddu and went back to the last driver 497.29
Well hopefully this will be the end of crashes. I'll be loading up very shortly.
If it happens again, i might do a format and reinstall windows.