WinSPWW2 patcher script

SP4EVER · #1 April 6th, 2011, 06:11 AM

I've had to reinstall my game a couple of times and I found applying all the patches in order can be abit tedious.

So I made this wery simple command script to help the process.
The script runs all the patches in order so you do not need to click on the patches manualy one by one.

Firstly you will want to place all the patches in a temporary folder like C:\Temp for example.

Then place the patcher cmd file in the same folder with the patches and run it.

It will then start the first patch (version 1.1B for WinSPWW2) and wait until you have finished installing it. Then it will move on to start the next patch and so on until all (1.1B - 4.5) have been installed in correct order.

This way there should be less chance of human error in missing one of the patches or installing in an incorrect order.

Cross · #2 April 1st, 2012, 05:48 PM

This is a great idea. But it skips the 2.0 patch!

Any chance of adding the 2.0 and the recent 5.0 patch to the script?

Cheers,
Cross

gila · #3 April 1st, 2012, 06:42 PM

I've recently had go thru the hurdles and frustrating agony of reinstalling the game with all patch's current.

Anything that helps is

for me,hopeing you can correct it

Cross · #4 April 1st, 2012, 09:58 PM

False alarm on my part.

Turns out my v2 upgrade was named v2.0
I must have renamed it years ago.

As long as your upgrade files are named exactly as the original downloads, this script works fine.

Cross

gila · #5 April 2nd, 2012, 04:12 PM

Maybe then this should be put in the MODS subforum,,,?

so will be easier to find when needed

Rosollia · #6 July 22nd, 2012, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gila

Maybe then this should be put in the MODS subforum,,,?

so will be easier to find when needed

I dont think the mods subforum is proper for this. A sticky thread would be more logical.

DRG · #7 July 27th, 2012, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rosollia

I dont think the mods subforum is proper for this. A sticky thread would be more logical.

The multiple old patch issue is being dealt with and when everything is co-ordinated the scripter will be obsolete

Don

Panzermeyer · #8 April 11th, 2012, 10:24 AM

At some point a comprehensive upgrade patch would be useful. Version 5.0 sounds like a nice round number to do that.

Rosollia · #9 April 20th, 2012, 04:44 AM

You know you can make a comprehensive patch by yourself. Just install all the patches into an empty folder. Then just repack the files into a ZIP file and you get a 59 MB (on normal compression) comprehensive patch v1.1b to v5.0. You can burn this to a CD then for backup and easy patching for future.

Imp · #10 April 21st, 2012, 04:52 AM

Simpler now computer storage space costs very little patch the program to its current version then back it up. When you patch the next version replace the backup with the new version. Now reinstaling just requires you to copy & paste it.
New system harddrives are 500GB plus nowadays & external ones for backup (you do dont you) are cheap nowadays. Or even a USB stick you can pick up 8 or 32GB ones for a few dollars nowadays if you shop around. They are fine so long as you dont carry them around in your pocket & hit them with a charge of static electricity.
The games are only about 500mb uncompressed so will fit on most anything.