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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Tools => Topic started by: General Battuta on May 19, 2011, 10:14:09 am

Title: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: General Battuta on May 19, 2011, 10:14:09 am
Note that I've only verified two out of three of these.

1. The installer's opening text still refers to 3.6.10. This is confusing users, even experienced ones. Needs to be updated to make it explicit that it installs 3.6.12.

2. The installer will crash and burn and install nothing if you don't select 'The Works'. This was true last time I tried to run it and several users have verified it. I'm not sure if this 100% reproducible.

3. (is this actually an issue?) The Installer takes hours (like 10+) to download all its content. Question is, is this a problem we can do something about, or just an issue with the enormous filesize?
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: jr2 on May 19, 2011, 06:36:04 pm
Any way to make it use www.gameupdates.org (http://www.gameupdates.org/faq.php) (yeah, server-backed legal files only torrent site.. no original assets I suppose, but maybe you could put the MVPs + mods on it?
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: General Battuta on May 19, 2011, 06:42:38 pm
Quote from: jr2 on May 19, 2011, 06:36:04 pm
Any way to make it use www.gameupdates.org (http://www.gameupdates.org/faq.php) (yeah, server-backed legal files only torrent site.. no original assets I suppose, but maybe you could put the MVPs + mods on it?

Not to my admittedly limited understanding of torrents. The installer must be easy to update and having a bunch of seeds for an old torrent out there is bad, right?
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: jr2 on May 19, 2011, 06:45:38 pm
Not necessarily, you can can delete an old torrent. (I've done it before.)  Let me check on that...

EDIT: from the FAQ:

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Downloading


Why did an active torrent suddenly disappear?

There may be three reasons for this:
(1) The torrent may have been out-of-sync with the site rules.
(2) The uploader may have deleted it because it was a bad release. A replacement will probably be uploaded to take its place.
(3) Torrents may be deleted when the get obsolete.
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: karajorma on May 22, 2011, 09:04:38 pm
I find that the installer will bugger up if it can't connect to Sectorgame.
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: Goober5000 on May 25, 2011, 03:43:23 am
As mentioned previously, the installer is in the process of being updated.  This has suffered some delays but I hopefully should have a beta version done this weekend.
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: 666maslo666 on May 25, 2011, 04:17:38 am
With the coming surge of new visitors wanting to download FS Open due to the PC Gamer article, it is now more important than ever to keep the installer working properly.  :eek:
Title: Re: Big Installer Problems Thread
Post by: jr2 on May 25, 2011, 09:03:36 am
Well, the thing I'm worried about is if you get a surge and they can't download it or it takes too long or has too many problems.  People will just give up.  :(

So, hopefully I can have this stuff uploaded to gameupdates.org, then at least people will be able to get it no matter what.