SOLVED Game scan every day

I'm experiencing this too.

Just installed this game a few days ago. The first time I fired it up it told me it had to repair the installation and downloaded a bunch of files, which I thought was weird since the installer file was like 2gb and I didn't expect this game to be much larger than that. It ended up downloading 500+ megabytes during the repair process. Just ran the game for the 2nd time and it's doing it again. At first I thought maybe there was just an update and that's what it needed to download, but it's checking the same number of files and downloading files that are the same size as the files it downloaded the other day. Although it's downloading slower this time around so it's going to take a long time.

I have no antivirus program. Windows Defender is disabled.

Not sure what's causing this, but it's basically going to be a deal breaker if I can't fix it.

 

In general, if you haven't had weird crashing or forced the game to shut down while loading in/out of something, or edited or moved things in the game folder, and you're needing to scan, there's a good chance there's either been a patch or a hotfix. Oftentimes, like now, they'll coincide, especially as new content rollouts nearly always mean something goes funky on live, meaning anything from hotfixes, to server restarts, as is the nature of all smaller game development patches.

 

has it been any updates today? i installed in earlier today first time, and started it again now, and have to download everything again.. All the artworks and so on (art.bar) and 453 more files

 

So with the release of all of the latest content, we are going to see a large number of hotfix patches ect as the Devs work on both fixing any bugs that crop up as well as delivering new content - Overall Good.

Now, I don't know how Age of Empires Online does it's files, but my experience with Age o Empires 2, 3, and Mythology has shown that each game has an absolutely massive number of individual files, numbering in the millions - Despite the relatively small storage size of the games, installing and uninstalling the other AoE games takes hours because of the sheer number of files with the games (Compared to other games such as World of Warcraft or ARK, which are gargantuan in size but almost all of it's data is consolidated within a few files)

This is the only tip I have - Disable your Antivirus when downloading AoE games - Some Antiviruses will scan every single file that you download for threats. This can cause significant increase in download times for AoE games since you basically have to scan each file twice.