The file wont extract properly for me
Tried downloading from gofile
nvm. apparently a problem with windows built in extractor. Worked when I tried with 7zip.
There's an issue with Windows 11 and extraction for a lot of people. In my case, even using 7zip made no difference eventually. The extraction speed eventually dropped to a point where it was taking over an hour to extract a 1GB file. I eventually discovered the problem was caused by Windows Defender, doing a security scan on every individual file in a game download separately and so thoroughly that you could read each individual file as it was happening. Whereas, normally it happens so fast, that's totally impossible unless it's an absolutely massive file.
The solution was to select 'Unblock' at the bottom of 'Properties'. This stops Windows from running a security scan on each of the files in your download. After which, the extraction speed returned to normal. If you have this issue, which is a known bug incidently, then the only current solution is to forgo the need for Windows 11 to run a security scan. In normal circumstances this happens very very quickly, but with this bug, it just gets worse over time. And 7zip might work for you now, but over the coming months it may start getting progressively slower as it did for me. Until it's just crawling along, because the actual problem is elsewhere. Even turning off Windows Defender completely doesn't always solve the problem. Often you have to specifically choose with each game, for it not to be scanned.
If turning off the security scans is an issue for you, you can always run your own scans with your AV, if you have a targetted scan capability. It usually takes about 1-2 minutes tops. I think most of the games linked to this site are checked anyway. I've downloaded a lot content from this site, and I've never had an issue, that wasn't a false positive.
To be clear, this is not an problem faced by everybody. It represents a minority of users, which is probably why it's taking so long for Microsoft to do anything about it. Unless an issue affects a very high proportion of users, and that means close to the majority, it can take well over a year before they decide to address it.
Windows 11 appears to have a lot of game-related issues, since there is another one which prevents many people from currently using the sandbox version of this game
