Patch 2.14

PvK · #1 September 16th, 2004, 06:59 PM

Yes, thanks for the new patch! Good work!

I almost feel like setting up a SOLARIS machine...

Regarding a patch support award:

Quote:

Boron said:
... The only other two worthy companies i would consider too are Blizzard ( who wonders

) and Paradox Entertainment ...

Malfador and HPS Simulations also come immediately to my mind on that score. Oh Battlefront is good too with their Combat Mission series. There are probably others, but it is the wonderful exception when there is such good support.

PvK

Ygorl · #2 September 16th, 2004, 08:33 PM

I'm having no luck running the patch app on OS X (upgrading from 2.12). Is there anybody else out there who's tried to install it on OS X (and either failed or succeeded)?

Bamek · #3 September 16th, 2004, 08:43 PM

I ran the patch on OS X (upgrading from 2.13 to 2.14) and everything went fine.

Ygorl · #4 September 16th, 2004, 08:49 PM

So it's either a problem with going from 2.12 or a problem with me. I'm dragging the "dominions2.app" into the updater, it registers that it's been dragged, but claims it's the wrong file and hence didn't update.

Ygorl · #5 September 16th, 2004, 10:10 PM

OK, it was the infamous "need-to-update-from-a-clean-install-but-only-after-updating-permissions" problem. Happily upgraded to 2.14 now.

Kristoffer O · #6 September 17th, 2004, 03:07 AM

The Mac patch can only be used from Version 2.02 (original on CD Version) or 2.13.

Arryn · #7 September 17th, 2004, 03:17 AM

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Kristoffer O said:
The Mac patch can only be used from Version 2.02 (original on CD Version) or 2.13.

Out of curiosity (I'm not a Mac user), is this small but important detail mentioned in a README file somewhere? Because it's missing from the info on Shrapnel's downloads page (which is where the warning should be, IMHO), nor has it previously been mentioned on this forum (such as in this thread when the announcement was made, or in the hardware issues sticky thread). You might ought to consider making this detail/warning a bit more obvious to Mac Users to help them avoid further grief, especially for those that don't hang out here in this forum. Just a suggestion.

Regards,

Arryn

Cainehill · #8 September 21st, 2004, 08:10 PM

I've come across a problem with the 2.14 client being used with games hosted by 2.12 or 2.13 servers. It can cause items to be lost, and it can also be used as an exploit, so much as I prefer staying with the same Version throughout a game (unless major gameplay "quirks" get fixed), I'd recommend migrating games to 2.14 soon.

Zooko · #9 September 21st, 2004, 08:37 PM

Ygorl: what do you get on OS X?

I get this from the patch tool:

"Patch Not Applied.
You have not selected the right file"

I currently have 2.12, and apparently I'm never going to upgrade. :-(

Johan K · #10 September 22nd, 2004, 06:04 AM

The mac patch can only be applied to Version 2.13 or the original on CD Version. So reinstall from CD, apply patch and it should work.