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Can't download large games even with download manager

A topic by eightcoins created 69 days ago Views: 180 Replies: 2
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No matter what I do, and if i download natively in browser, the itch.io desktop app or in a download manager, i cant download games over 300mb.

The download eventually is interrupted and can't be continued. No matter what I do, this always happens 6%-10% in. On the app, I get the error "local error tls: bad record MAC" which i know the rough usual cause of, but no solution to.

Last year I had no issue downloading games of this size off the site, and nothing has changed about my computers hardware or wifi set up.
Ive by now tried every single proposed solution from other sites yet still not gotten downloads to work.

Ive been trying and failing to download one big game for 4 months now.

I don't know if you've tried it yet, but I had the same issue, and a VPN seemed to fix it.

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Seems to work better with desktop VPN (it got to 22%), but since I was using the free version the data cap wasn't enough to download.

But I don't understand how it can even happen that games can only download with a VPN activated. This is a problem I've only ever had on Itch.io.

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