Patches

[Arralen]

Binzer said:
It was Windows, and it was only for the last patch. As I later found out, even though I aborted, the patch still seemed to go through, so maybe I didn't need to use the program.

From where did you download the 'patch program'?

The latest 2.16 patch is available from Shrapnelgames site (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/d2/6.htm);
It's actually a program, a "Clickteam Patch Maker" file, something like a self-extracting zip file, that can not only extract its contents, but put them into the correct (sub-)directory and alters already existing files. E.g. it simply alters all the bytes which are different between the 2.15 and the 2.16 .exe .. makes the patchfile smaller than squeezing the whole .exe file into it.

It's 1.796.606 Bytes, MD5sum is D7A3AE40D352DB8DFFD33D1517EE309A .

If you aborted the installation, you can't have the 2.16 version - because the necessary changes have not been done.

I can't understand, though, whats 'awkward' about this patcher. Its actually easier to use than simple .zip file, whichs contents you would have to put into the correct folders: Start the "Patch Maker", point it to the Dom2 install directory, done. Where's the problem with this?

If you ran anything else on your machine, you should ask yourself what you acutally installed - besides the Dom2 patch.


PS: .. and it was not only used for the last version: I have the patches .06, .08, .11, .12, .13, .14, .15. and .16 still sitting in my downloads directory, and ALL of them have been built using the "Patch Maker" ...