PlaneShift

Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Talad on September 25, 2005, 03:44:14 pm

Title: READ THIS if updater is taking long time!
Post by: Talad on September 25, 2005, 03:44:14 pm: We have setup a server just for the updater files, this will lighten the load of the game server, so hopefully we will have less lag.

If you are updating and it\'s taking long time, please check your server configuration. We now have 2 new mirrors, you can use one or the other depending on speed you get.

Instructions for the 1st mirror site are here:

http://psmirror.u24.solone.net/ (http://psmirror.u24.solone.net/ )

Instructions for the 2nd mirror site are here:

http://psmirror.pfdev.net/ (http://psmirror.pfdev.net/ )

Notice:

1) The updater can continue from the place it stopped, so you can shut it down, and restart it later.

2) Reinstalling the game means you will lose the current progress of the updater, so it will redownload all the updates.

3) If you got the latest files, the solone server is now the default one. Remember that after updating the default server is used again. After an update check the updaterconfig.xml file.

4) We are working on a new updater that will automatically split the users on different servers, so editing the files will no more be needed.

Thanks.
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Post by: kiyu on September 25, 2005, 05:54:55 pm: holy s*** this is way faster, good job

-Edited-!!! took me only 5 minutes!
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Post by: Opet on September 29, 2005, 05:46:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Talad
If you are updating and it\'s taking long time, please switch to the new server.

Hi, i am totally new and just downloaded the 0.3.011 via torrent.

Update speed is now 16 KByte/s instead of 3 KB/s, which is much better, but i don\'t like to say it is good.

I would like to suggest that updates bigger than (enter your favorite size here) MB are distributed via torrents like updatepackages. Maybe the gpl tool rsync is worth a closer look, i don\'t know your requirements.

But the reason for this post is the information that the modification of the \"updaterconfig.xml\" must be done for every update again, because it is overwritten during the update progress and so the original file is restored.

Update complete, shifting plane...
Title: instruction link
Post by: Causa on September 30, 2005, 12:38:33 am: The instruction link in the initial post is dead for some reason. I want to find a way to make the updater speed up, I\'m getting a (relatively) decent ping on the updater, but the download rate is between 1-3kbps.

If someone could post a copy of the instructions in that link, that would be very helpful.

Causa

PS also, Ive been trying to get into the setup program, and I click on Planeshift setup, nothing happens. No hour glass icon, not the sound of the hard drive, its like I didnt click at all.

could this be because I havent finished updating? I downloaded the crystal blue client today, so it couldnt be that out of date, right?

Causa, again

PPS Nevermind, I was able to open it in firefox using the ctrl-t command. Just in case someone else has this same problem, here is a list of the instructions:

Edit: I had the instructions posted, but since the instructions in the link may change, I\'d hate to mess up someones updater.

Causa
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Post by: Cha0s on September 30, 2005, 01:03:54 am: If you want to make sure your updaterconfig.xml file is not overwritten every time, mark it as read-only after you make the change (\"Lock\" it on Mac OS X).
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Post by: Dingar on October 05, 2005, 12:32:20 am: I have a question, everytime i try to download the update it gets on big file done and moves on to lil files. during this process the bottom bar goes up 1% and it freezes. I did that thing mentioned earlier in this thread, but no luck, and when i start the updater again, the updates start all over. Is there someway i can download the updates without using the updater, because if not, I will not be able to download this. I have a good connection to, decent.
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Post by: Suno_Regin on October 06, 2005, 11:01:35 pm: Like I\'ve said in the past, I\'m an idiot when it comes to this stuff...I found the line in updaterconfig, but now I need to figure out how to delete and replace it...Anyone care sharing it with me? :P

EDIT: :O I found it out, maybe I\'m not as dumb as I thought :D

This is a lot faster :D

...But there still isn\'t any new update :/
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Post by: Denied on October 07, 2005, 06:20:34 am: Thanks it made it allot faster.
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Post by: Sercane on October 13, 2005, 05:07:51 am: Just wondering if anyone else\'s updater is doing this...

http://us.f3.yahoofs.com/users/434dccd0za447f53f/e94b/__sr_/9713.jpg?ph4MdTDBI7lq.6fE
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Post by: jordach545 on October 14, 2005, 03:44:32 pm: The updater did not save it\'s progress after freezing some of the way through, I had to close the updater and it started back at 0% again, it goes fast at the beginning when it\'s downloading the registry but when it comes to getting the real files it\'s back to 1kb, I checked the wordpad doc and it was back to the origional again. What gives?
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Post by: Waylayen on October 14, 2005, 06:17:51 pm: new updater build resets the changes :)
just rechange the change you made
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Post by: Bereror on October 14, 2005, 06:56:13 pm: The updater updates only these files that need updates. If you have 3 files (call them A, B, C), then this is your 100%. If you cancel the updater after A being updated and start it over again, you have only 2 files (B and C) that need updates.

And yes, it starts again from 0% because B and C is now your 100% 8) . And yes, it saved its progress, because it will not update A 8) .
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Post by: Gorzhuul on October 15, 2005, 02:44:47 am: how long should it take to get 1%?
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Post by: Shami on October 15, 2005, 07:56:53 pm: This isn\'t working for me. Can someone send me the actual .xml file?

*Someone sent it to me. FIXED.*
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Post by: Elensul on October 16, 2005, 11:26:22 pm: Hi...
I\'m new.The first thing
i saw is a problem......
I\'m not new in the world of the rpgs
so i went to this forum to say
somthing noob,i tryed you \"solone\" server
unfortunatly it works only for my two first files after the speed became like 3Ko/s......
And i can say that for 50% i waited 4 hours....
**I ask the same thing that Shami**
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Post by: WoozyBoraBora on October 17, 2005, 04:08:52 pm: ok i just downloaded this last night and i called in \'sick\' for school to do this just to find out it doesn\'t work. someone plz help me i found the line in the updaterconfig.xml and replaced it and when i restart it it says on certain files cannot write it gives me the option to abort, retry, or ignore. once i ignored all the files then i couldn\'t play at all someone plz help me.
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Post by: mastercho on October 19, 2005, 04:08:10 pm: um make sure all your files are not read only. and dont ignore, as if it does not update the files, which it was not doing because you were ignoring, then you cant play.

also i made the changes to this, and yeah faster kinda, when its syncin the files it takes quite a while. and it probably shouldnt. now while my computer is not the latest, its still 2ghz. and should not take as long as it is.

although ill leave it going, my mate started it at the same time as me and is on 35%. and im at 5% which is not cool.

but yeah must be a problem at my end.
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Post by: Serathi on October 21, 2005, 11:46:41 pm: Hmmm, it\'s not the download that is annoying, it\'s that it has to sync the damn zips. In the future, I\'d really wanna see the updates in bigger files than small zips that needs to sync.

Is there another way to get by all that crap?
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Post by: deadhand on October 23, 2005, 03:19:53 am: it just stays the same can u help i have nortn antivirus on though should i turn it off
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Post by: Karyuu on October 23, 2005, 03:38:54 am: Norton AntiVirus shouldn\'t really affect speeds I believe, though you can certainly try with it off. Sometimes the speeds stay the same as with the default update server, and sometimes they speed up. There is really no other alternative - try to leave the computer on for as long as you can, and do something else while waiting :)
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Post by: Serathi on October 23, 2005, 05:38:54 pm: There is a life outside Planeshift!? Even yet, internet/computer!? BLASPHEMY!
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Post by: Sangwa on October 24, 2005, 08:49:06 pm: Argh I\'m updating to 0.3.12 with this new repository and it\'s still slow...
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Post by: Obed on October 28, 2005, 04:16:29 pm: Using updater version 1.0.2.7, and it looks like it is using the \"fix\" listed at the begining of this thread.

I am getting between 2 and 7 KB/s on a dsl connection that normally dl\'s at 180+ KB/s.

Ah, feels like the good ol\' days of dialup :)

Edit: AUGHHH! I just came back to check the updater....
I am on trepor.cal3d supposedly a 2kb file and supposedly downloading at 6kb/s...and it is goin on over two minutes to get this thing. 4 seconds to get 1% point on the download.
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Post by: Diamondcite on October 29, 2005, 12:28:03 am: Quote
Originally posted by Obed
Using updater version 1.0.2.7, and it looks like it is using the \"fix\" listed at the begining of this thread.

I am getting between 2 and 7 KB/s on a dsl connection that normally dl\'s at 180+ KB/s.

Ah, feels like the good ol\' days of dialup :)

Edit: AUGHHH! I just came back to check the updater....
I am on trepor.cal3d supposedly a 2kb file and supposedly downloading at 6kb/s...and it is goin on over two minutes to get this thing. 4 seconds to get 1% point on the download.

Err.. how do I post again? ... Oh!

Regarding the very very slow update using the fix, I just experienced the same thing. As I experiment I changed it back to the original server. It seems to he going much faster now. Maybe the addresses were swapped?

EDIT: I used the \"Downloading Registry\" to check the speed.
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Post by: Karyuu on October 29, 2005, 12:31:02 am: Concerning:

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Originally posted by Obed
AUGHHH! I just came back to check the updater....
I am on trepor.cal3d supposedly a 2kb file and supposedly downloading at 6kb/s...and it is goin on over two minutes to get this thing. 4 seconds to get 1% point on the download.

Check this (http://planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=20066&boardid=42) thread.
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Post by: Suno_Regin on October 29, 2005, 04:23:45 am: Gah...Can someone give me the original updater XML line (with the laanx updater server, not the solone one), I accidently erased an important line, and now I can\'t update at all :|

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it...Maybe I\'m smarter with computers then I thought o.O
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Post by: zozeer on October 29, 2005, 08:52:14 am: I am sad. I switched to Solone, and whale it is faster, my T1 wants more speed. I think that switching to a bit torrent-esk updater system would be sweet. The updater makes me angry when I\'m downloading ISO\'s at 30Mb/sec and the updater is puttering along at 4k/sec, there has to be something that can be done about it.
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Post by: Waylayen on October 29, 2005, 09:42:27 am: I\'ve got the newly updated updater build, and changed the active mirror to \"2\" instead of \"1\", gives about 100kb/s, (against my average with 600 or way more, but hey, it\'s way better then 2kb/s.)
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Post by: Heathbart on October 29, 2005, 12:19:25 pm: First time poster here... my brother installed it at his house, and started the updater, and like you have all said, d/l speed is around 2kb/s... so I go home, with the program on my thumb drive, install it... and I\'m also getting the same 2kb/s. The difference? I have Norton A/V, and he doesn\'t... so so much for the Norton question.

Hope this game rocks as much as it looks.
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Post by: Adidos on October 30, 2005, 01:35:42 pm: The new version of the updater ( 1.0.2.7 ) is already using the fix.

The problem is, this fix sux.

Change to the original server.

HOWTO :

1) Open the file updaterconfig.xml (located in in your PlaneShift installation directory) with WORDPAD and change this line :

to :

2) Save and quit

3) Restart updater

4) You now have 40 KB/s
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Post by: Xyl on October 31, 2005, 09:42:01 am: Thanks Adidos, Your advice fixed my problem! It seems everyone is shifting over the the mirror server and suddenly Laanx has become trafficless!

Maybe a bit of script needs to be written to switch the updaters connection to which ever server has the least amount of load.

Great work guys!
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Post by: polylux on October 31, 2005, 03:45:07 pm: Hmmmm, maybe i should give Adidos\' idea a try.
For this reason, can someone please post the two lines describing the servers from the \"old\" updaterconfig.xml?

EDIT:
nvm, already recovered those lines. Man that really helped out, I get about 25k now, thanks for that ;)

poly
Title: updater doesn't work at ALL
Post by: Nero da 2nd on November 24, 2005, 08:03:20 pm: Everytime i try to use my updater it just quits itself
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Post by: Ceiba on December 16, 2005, 09:53:43 pm: edit: n/m going to check out the mac forums first.