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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Sairen on January 21, 2005, 08:51:19 am

Title: Updater Messes
Post by: Sairen on January 21, 2005, 08:51:19 am
I try using my updater... and it gets to being updater 1.0.2.3.. or something like that... then this window pops up saying

\"The updater will now start replacing the old file with the new ones
This will happen in the background so please do not do anything until you get a message tell you to do so
Press OK to continue\"

I press OK, and updater disapeers. I don\'t press OK, nothing happens. What is wrong with this?
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Post by: Uyaem on January 21, 2005, 09:10:44 am
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by Xen
in the ps dir go to updatertemp and copy all the files there to the root ps dir


After that, rerun the updater and it should work/download new stuff.
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Post by: Meketh on January 21, 2005, 11:28:15 am
I do not want to be rude to you as I can understand that experiencing a bug is somewhat \"disastrous\" but would like to politely remind you to use the search button.

There are several threads concerning the same question already open and I think it does demotivate people who want to help/give technical advice and open up every thread to read the same several times.

Be safe
Meketh aka Dante
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Post by: Maxe on January 21, 2005, 11:28:22 am
and after that you cannot get ingame anymore.

GJ with your newest update PS team!!

today i wanted to come back after several weeks of absence to see if anything improved actually. well, i guess that\'s it...
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Post by: Meketh on January 21, 2005, 11:30:58 am
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Originally posted by Maxe
and after that you cannot get ingame anymore.

GJ with your newest update PS team!!

today i wanted to come back after several weeks of absence to see if anything improved actually. well, i guess that\'s it...


You can definitely get into the game after following Pogopuschels instructions. Maybe you want to give us details what happens after updating.

Be safe
Meketh aka Dante
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Post by: Count on January 21, 2005, 11:32:48 am
After running the updater and pressing the OK-button, wait a few minutes while the program downloads the needed data. This will happen in the BACKGROUND, so don\'t wonder if there is no progression bar.
Then unzip the updater.zip-file in your Planeshift  directory (with PS-directory as target). Now the updater should work.

(I think, you can read this in another thread, too.)
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Post by: Maxe on January 21, 2005, 11:38:34 am
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Originally posted by Meketh
You can definitely get into the game after following Pogopuschels instructions. Maybe you want to give us details what happens after updating.
definitely NOT. (you wanna have a vnc connection or what. what part of my report you don\'t get.)

the screen stays black, after changing windows it gets white and the task is not responding anymore. i believe it\'s a cpu resource bug. (right after loading bar ss full the process takes all cpu and the loading screen stays. on changing windows it gets black or white.)

yes, count, i actually updated the updater manually before looking in the forums.
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Post by: Uyaem on January 21, 2005, 11:49:17 am
Run pssetup and save your config again after checking the settings, sometimes they are lost (for me).
Providing some info about your system (OS, gfx card etc) might help, so you might consider doing that.
Pointless complaining might not help, so you might consider not doing that.
The process will always take up to 100% CPU since there\'s no FPS-limit.
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Post by: Maxe on January 21, 2005, 12:02:30 pm
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
Run pssetup and save your config again after checking the settings ...
no, i just deleted all files after getting the repository so i\'m updating the whole game (tech demo) now.
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
Providing some info about your system (OS, gfx card etc) might help, so you might consider doing that.
wouldn\'t help with my problem as the update is the source of the problem, not my system.
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
Pointless complaining might not help, so you might consider not doing that.
hmm, i can see points in my complaint but i don\'t see any or even help in your replies.
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
The process will always take up to 100% CPU since there\'s no FPS-limit.
plain wrong. first, what system do you have. on mine the process takes much less most of the time. secondly, yes, there actually is (or at least was before the update, i cannot check as the second update isn\'t complete, yet) a fps limit, that is 43. funny you didn\'t realize.
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Post by: Maxe on January 21, 2005, 03:17:35 pm
complete update (== new install) didn\'t help at all.

i just checked my logs. last time i was online w/o any problems was on january, the 12th. 9 days later (today) i only update the game and cannot get into the game anymore as it has now a cpu resource bug. GREAT!
although my game received text messages (of course not seen on screen) and saved them in the chat log.

seems to be related with graphics.
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Post by: Androgos on January 21, 2005, 04:10:47 pm
*sigh*

Why why why why..

First, You do NOT need to wait after pressing \"OK\" on the message box, since the files are already downloaded by then.

Secondly, This whole feature is missconfigured, that\'s why it\'s not working on your clients, just copy everthing the updater has unziped in \"updatertemp\" to your PlaneShift directory
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Post by: Uyaem on January 21, 2005, 04:34:09 pm
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Originally posted by Maxe
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
Providing some info about your system (OS, gfx card etc) might help, so you might consider doing that.
wouldn\'t help with my problem as the update is the source of the problem, not my system.

Yes it would help. I\'m not saying it could be a bug with the graphics, I\'m saying it could be specific to your hardware, since I and many others do not experience that with the latest update.
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Originally posted by Maxe
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
Pointless complaining might not help, so you might consider not doing that.
hmm, i can see points in my complaint but i don\'t see any or even help in your replies.

I\'m sorry I tried.
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Originally posted by Maxe
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Originally posted by Pogopuschel
The process will always take up to 100% CPU since there\'s no FPS-limit.
plain wrong. first, what system do you have. on mine the process takes much less most of the time. secondly, yes, there actually is (or at least was before the update, i cannot check as the second update isn\'t complete, yet) a fps limit, that is 43. funny you didn\'t realize.

You are correct though: A FPS limiter is implemented, to my knowledge and experience it is active on the loading screen and the updater (this also corresponds with CVS change log).
EDIT: Also seems to be on the client now, 62.5 is my max. and pretty constant value.

You might want to try the following: start psclient with the parameter --console and paste in here the last thing you get in there (meaning: the last thing you get before you think it enters the infinite loop, there might be output from that as well).
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Post by: Sairen on January 21, 2005, 04:49:21 pm
*looks around at all this fighting and sighs*

Um yes. Sorry I did post another thread. I read the other ones and mine seemed slightly different and thought it was a different problem perhaps. My bad. :(

Another thing, please dumb all this down for me, cause I\'m now REALLY confused on what I\'m supposed to do.

---EDIT---- Uh... n/m
Finally figured it out for my own after tinkering for a little while. Thank you so very much! ^.^()
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Post by: Lordbug on January 21, 2005, 05:41:01 pm
this are the things that make PS fun :D

hope it works
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Post by: W0NDER on January 21, 2005, 07:02:57 pm
If only this forum was made yesterday I just deleted mine and now im reinstalling
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Post by: zenix on January 21, 2005, 08:50:31 pm
treid all that and it don\'t work plz realy dumb this down/write a program that does it cos i unzipped 2 root of ps and 2 updatertemp and it does nothing to game or updater(still says my version is out of date)
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Post by: Mystic Arbiter on January 21, 2005, 09:30:53 pm
if we need to un zip the file manually in future can u plz put that in the mmsg box for us plz ive been trying for days since i found dis form
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Post by: Moogie on January 22, 2005, 05:10:48 pm
Please be aware exactly what you\'re asking here. This is an Alpha techdemo of a game. It will not have all the typical easy \"every windows user can do it\" interface. As a work in progress and in early development, sometimes you will need to use your brain a little to get it to work. If it\'s too much for you, just be patient and wait.
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Post by: Maxe on January 24, 2005, 11:54:44 am
(no offence meant moogie, but it really seems that it\'s the standard reply if something doesn\'t work.)

my problem is solved after the newest update.

BUT who helps me now with all my lost goddies? over 700 platinum ores gone.
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Post by: Androgos on January 24, 2005, 04:40:39 pm
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Originally posted by Maxe
(no offence meant moogie, but it really seems that it\'s the standard reply if something doesn\'t work.)


It\'s because it\'s true, many of these issues are things that haven\'t be polished because it\'s Beta on the Alpha