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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: ramgad on July 20, 2006, 08:49:32 am

Title: Login:"new updates are available" but updater told" all files are up-to-date"
Post by: ramgad on July 20, 2006, 08:49:32 am

Hello together,

I have succesfully installed the new 0.3.015 package,
the new patch to 0.3.015b and then I run updater1.1.1.1 to get the a few art fixes.

All things are working fine - the new locations are looking great!!!

Now, when i logged in, I get the message that new updates are available.
I start the updater 1.1.1.1 and he says that all files are up-to-date?!

Do I have the right version of the updater?
Is there a new version available and where can I download it?

Many thanks in advance.

Greetings

Ramgad

Title: Re: Login:"new updates are available" but updater told" all files are up-to-date"
Post by: Karyuu on July 20, 2006, 11:10:23 am

You might still get "There are updates available" or similar messages when you run the game, even though everything on your system is fine right now. Just an oddity for the time being :} If you can login just fine, and if you've successfuly run the updater, you're all set.

Title: Re: Login:"new updates are available" but updater told" all files are up-to-date
Post by: Nilrem on July 20, 2006, 01:19:44 pm

Trying a blind guess here...

Probably what the game does to know if there's an updater version avaiable, is connect somewhere, and get a small file that has sort of the numeric version of the latest version.
If the number on your client is lower, means that something has been updated, and then the message prompts.

Then you quit the game, and then run the updater.
Updater has three mirrrors to connect to.
Perhaps not all of them are fully up to date.
Let's say that the game connects to mirror 1 to get that info, to know if it's up to date or not.
But when you launch the updater, it will connect to mirror 1, 2 or 3.
So, perhaps the mirror it connects to, doesn't have that "very latest" file yet up, and then the updater tells you that all is up to date.

It can also be a bug of the update notification system, but well, I thought I could share that other possibility (not really sustended anywhere solid :D)

But anyway, as has been already said, if you can play the game normally, surely you aren't missing any critical update.

Title: Re: Login:"new updates are available" but updater told" all files are up-to-date
Post by: DaveG on July 20, 2006, 07:37:52 pm

Yes, that's the process, and yes, out of sync update servers has always been a problem.  However, I just checked and they're all using the same version.dat.

So long as that login message goes away after you run the updater, it's all working correctly.  There's only one version.dat, and there are 4 supported distributions.  (Win32, MacOSX, Linux32, Linux64)  If there's a Mac only update for example, everyone gets the message and only the people with Macs will get an update when they run the updater.  The system doesn't know that, so you'll just have to check with the updater.