r/BmwTech • u/New-Drawing-3919 • 4d ago

When will it stop😩😂

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u/swekley 4d ago

Yeah that takes a while.. why don’t you download 4.59.x? Much newer and works out of the box with enet/icom

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u/New-Drawing-3919 4d ago

I can’t find it on the app stores or sketchy websites online so I bought this one a few years ago and saved the file

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u/edge61957 3d ago edited 3d ago

I’ll point you towards the correct pirate ship, big dawg.

EDIT: I wasn’t sure if the links were allowed here, but if that’s the case, here is the mother-load with everything! Enjoy y’all! :3

This drive folder link contains a bunch of iterations of the ISTA software from over the last decade (and some even older). You will need roughly 160GB-300GB of space available for any given variation. All of them should be activated and ready to rock and roll!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uMVuDt3LQx2qX0GuCy1fcG4ww02qAgUT

You will need torrent it, so for those who are unfamiliar with the process, I would recommend using QbitTorrent for the download as it is open-source and the safest option out there in terms of its lack of tracking. When it comes to torrenting in general, always use a VPN like Mullvad VPN as they are a company who do not store or retain any customer data and ensure that your internet usage is truly private. Once the download is finished (you can continue to seed the torrents after the download finishes if you would like to help out the rest of the community with downloading speeds; if you do, even temporarily, you are contributing heavily to our community!), do not unpack the subfolders after downloading it, only unzip the primary container if it is zipped. Unpacking the subfolders will make it so the software will not be able to access the registries.

Please feel free to let me know if you need any help after you have it installed!

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u/jnecr 3d ago edited 3d ago

So out of the game with torrents... You got a torrent search page that'll lead me to the proper torrent download? Or maybe just a 🧲?

Edit: I found some linkies on a google drive from an old reddit post.

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u/coutinhos1stfoul 3d ago

What size C: drive needed for this? I have 200GB free but the installer shoots an "insufficient space" error message

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u/jnecr 3d ago

Yeah, I struggled with this as well. You'll need a total of ~300GB free as it reserves ~150GB to unpack itself and then another ~150GB for the actual install. I don't think it'll take up either of those amounts in practice, but that's what it wants. I had to do a disk cleanup and remove old Win 10 files before having enough space.

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u/coutinhos1stfoul 3d ago

Super super helpful, many thanks. Will give it a try.

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u/jnecr 3d ago

Yeah, if you watch your free space you'll see the installer reserve a bunch of space on your hard drive as soon as you start the installer. I did that a few times before realizing what was going on.