8 hrs?? I going out on a limb and suggesting that because you are in the free trial, you may never get it. Don't mean to be so negative - but it's the update.
This 1.4 patch has introduced (or re-introduced) many many bugs and graphics problems.
Since the update, players have been seeing dramatically reduced framerates, as well as crazy bugs like other players showing up on thier ships, with that player not being able to leave by any other means but using thier fleet pass.
The GTN was down for the entire first day. Random crashes to desktop are/were a big issue too. The first day after it crashed on me 4-5 times.
That being said, I have seen, since Wednsday, fps getting marginally better in most cases. I did, however, download and install the latest driver for my video card. But I've read about other players having some pretty crazy problems with thier graphics since the update. And also been hearing most people begging for them to roll the update back, with no replies I know of from BW people.
I was, honestly, pretty upset with this last update as I really truly like this game quite alot, but I'm getting over it as my level of playability has been returning. And I'm not even very hard to please as most gamers really are.
So, I don't know what to tell you, but post if you ever finish downloading it.