North American, Australian and New Zealand players can now pre–patch their game if they wish. The patch file is approximately 925 MBs in size and can be downloaded via HTTP or Bitorrent. Once you run it, the files will be extracted so that they can be quickly applied when the patch goes live on March 17th.
I highly recommend doing it as it saves the annoyance of sitting around for an hour while the patch downloads and applies. I usually go the torrent route so I can easily resume it or lower the download speed.
Unfortunately, Codemasters won’t be bringing the European version of the patch live until March 26th. European players can not use this patch.
