Patches

Binzer · #1 October 26th, 2006, 12:24 AM

Seeing that Dom 3 was out, I wanted to play a few games of Dom 2 before deciding whether to buy this. I noticed a 2.16 patch was out, but apparently I needed to download some patch program that was a royal pain to use. I ultimately aborted the patch. I'm wondering if the same program (Patchmaker, I think it was called) is being used for Dom 3?

Gandalf Parker · #2 October 26th, 2006, 01:17 AM

I dont remember downloading a patch program for Dom2.
What version were you using? Windows, Mac, Linux, Sun Sparc?

Ygorl · #3 October 26th, 2006, 01:22 AM

With Dom2, the Mac version had some funky patching system that required you to have either the immediately previous version or the version on the CD. I don't know what the Swedes have in mind for Dom3, or if this is relevant to Binzer or merely vaguely informative for Gandalf.

Binzer · #4 October 26th, 2006, 06:48 PM

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.

NTJedi · #5 October 26th, 2006, 06:55 PM

I use Windows for my Dominions games and never needed any special program for the last patch.

Arralen · #6 October 26th, 2006, 09:13 PM

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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" ...