1.49 Woes (tech tales from the great white north)

Suicide Junkie · #1 January 7th, 2006, 05:50 PM

I have a solution for you!
Grab a BitTorrent Client.

Then download this 23 kb torrent file

Open the file with your BT client, and it will download the patch for you.
Stop and restart at any time.
Each little piece of the file gets checked for integrity as it comes in.

Seeing as your modem is going to be the bandwidth chokepoint, you should get full speed.

Cipher7071 · #2 January 7th, 2006, 06:08 PM

Gadzooks! Can this be true? Thank's for the link. I'll download it.

You know, I once had a similar utility. It was a Netscape product, and I lost it during a software crash several years ago. When I went looking around for it this week, my search began turning up info on how Netscape installed spyware on the very thing I was looking for. I don't like companies who install spyware, so I decided not use their stuff.

Baron Munchausen · #3 January 7th, 2006, 06:52 PM

Yep, that's how I managed to get the 'Deluxe' patch downloaded on my own dialup connection. Not only is it dialup, but being a 'budget' ISP they have a 2 hour time limit per connection! (Ok, 4 hours on weekends...) But Bittorrent can resume partial downloads, so I was able to get around even that obstacle and have long since burned my copy of the patch to a games CD along with a bunch of other goodies.

Cipher7071 · #4 January 7th, 2006, 07:00 PM

Okay. I got the download while fixing supper. I'll let you know how it works out- hopefully in a game forum. Thanks again.

Slick · #5 January 7th, 2006, 08:20 PM

Word O' The Day: "Gadzooks"

(also spoken as "Great Horny Toads" in certain parts of the country)

Cipher7071 · #6 January 8th, 2006, 09:37 PM

UPDATE: Bit Torrent works great!

I downloaded the patch last night. After squirreling away my version 1.49 files into a new directory, I installed it.
In my experimental run I ran across numerous "can't find" or "don't recognize" errors, but everything seems to work just fine during play. I'm goofing around a bit with the drones now, and I should be into a version 1.94 game soon.

I suppose it would be a good thing to look in the latest bug reports to see what's new there too.

Suicide Junkie · #7 January 8th, 2006, 09:51 PM

Those would be your AIs. They don't know about drones, or a number of other new features.

capnq · #8 January 9th, 2006, 07:17 PM

Quote:

In my experimental run I ran across numerous "can't find" or "don't recognize" errors, but everything seems to work just fine during play.

Instructions for patching out those errors are linked in my sig.