In the menu select Origin > Application Settings: Origin Application Settings for Download Restrictions You can configure Origin to throttle the bandwidth which can be used for downloading updates. Depending upon the size of the patch, this might take some time. This also means that other downloads in your network have to share their download bandwidth with Origin. I believe this has something to do with the overlay system of Origin. That way the parent process of an Origin game is always run under Origin.exe. The combination of theses settings means that if you are logged in into Origin, you get the latest updates as soon as possible. It seems Origin always has to run the game from its own GUI (Origin.exe), so when you run for example Crysis3.exe directly it will send a signal to Origin.exe to launch Crysis3.exe before it exits. Maximum download rate during gameplay: No Limit.Maximum download rate when out of game: No Limit.
With sizes of multiple GBytes for a new patch or release of a game, the download of new patches can eat a lot of your download bandwidth.īy default, Origin has the following settings enabled: Unlike us, if you have a high-speed internet connection, you might notice way better improvement in your download speeds.EA’s Origin can be either configured to throttle downloads or just to notify the user about new downloads but without downloading them. We were now downloading at approximately 1.5 MB/s, which is close to 7 times improvement in speed, compared to what we were getting without the R&D mode. So, we restarted Origin after setting up R&D mode and immediately noticed a huge improvement in speed. Obviously, we couldn’t handle it, as the file size was almost 47 GB and it was a pain to watch. Well, before we used R&D mode, we were trying to download Battlefield 1 CTE at about 215 KB/s. Well, that’s not necessarily a high speed internet connection, but the results will vary from person to person. At our office, the WiFi speeds usually hover between 8 – 16 Mbps. Well, we wanted to show you how much of a speed improvement we were experiencing and it’s quite noticeable to say the least. You will now be able to download at the highest possible speed that your internet connection can handle and will no longer be restricted to Origin’s throttled speeds.ĭownload Speed in Origin: Before vs After What are you waiting for? Go ahead and download your favorite games to notice the difference in speed right away. If you’ve done the above steps correctly, you’ll notice that Origin is now running in R&D mode production by simply looking at the top of the Origin client’s window.