Posted October 29, 2010
Tepidbroth
Always Confused
Registered: Jan 2010
From United Kingdom
Whelp
New User
Registered: Nov 2008
From Germany
superfly2000
WoT, NWN, SL, Minecraft and EVE.
Registered: Apr 2010
From Sweden
Posted November 04, 2010
They're probably missing some files. Thats why almost everyone had to download the critical rebuild patch as well....
xenobrain
New User
Registered: Dec 2008
From United States
Posted November 04, 2010
Post edited November 04, 2010 by xenobrain
Mattoco
Guy w/ the voice
Registered: Feb 2010
From United States
Posted November 06, 2010
Missing:
xp1patch.bif (7.69MB): I'm not sure this file is used anymore. The 1.69 linux server patch specifically instructs you to delete this file.
Incorrect File Size/Date:
xp2patch.bif (127,609kb): Critical rebuild patches this file to a 359,896kb file that was modified 3 years after the GOG install file (4/29/2005 vs. 5/15/2008)
xp3.bif (463,718kb): Critical rebuild patches this file to a 627,919kb file that was modified 9 hours before the GOG install file (5/15/2008 10:46PM vs. 1:46PM). Weird.
Given the above file sizes, there's your missing ~0.4GB
The culminations of these discrepancies are that users will be missing some textures (partially invisible icons, unexpected silver textures, etc.) and quite possibly game data, but I was able to successfully join a multiplayer server with only the above mentioned texture issues. We have had reports of players with the GOG install crashing on some of the newer tilesets however (Steamworks), so that is likely something missing from the game files. With our automatic updater having a force install option for the Critical Rebuild, these issues were resolved once the patch was re-applied.
The file discrepancy issue has been forwarded to support.
Runehamster
keep it classy!
Registered: Jun 2009
From United States
Posted November 08, 2010
You're all absolutely wrong. It's quite obvious that they digitized a bag of holding to put the files into so they wouldn't take up so much computer space.