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#1 BLACKSAMA

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Posted 26 September 2013 - 09:05 AM

I had a client freeze a few minutes ago after the game crashed, I know it crashed since most vendors in prontera vanished.

 

Anyway now after alt - f4 my way out and trying again to log in is patching files from 2011.... is there anything I did wrong?


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Posted 26 September 2013 - 09:17 AM

I just did a restore previous version of the IRO folder and now game is running back again, I am glad that I have shadow copies running.

 

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Posted 26 September 2013 - 09:19 AM

Something seems to have gone haywire in the client.  I wasn't paying enough attention to see if mine downloaded old patches, but it did fudge a bunch of my settings and for some odd reason I'm stuck at the teeniest tiniest resolution and it won't let me change it.

 

ETA: woops, didn't see the addition before replying.  I'll have to try that.


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Posted 26 September 2013 - 09:26 AM

I believe that in my case the patch server was having issues (several pings lost, yes I was pinging it ) and was not allowing me to connect, did many close and try again, after a while it allow me to connect (patch server restarted?) but started downloading really old patches.

 

I believe that me closing and reopening the patcher caused the txt file that keeps track of which patchs are installed to either blank or corrupt, and so it started to download everything again.

 

There is no excuse for the instability of the server though.


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Posted 26 September 2013 - 12:42 PM

Same thing happened to me today... Ive nearly finished downloading again grrr lol

 


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#6 Izzy1

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Posted 26 September 2013 - 01:03 PM

I suggest once you download your iRO client and make a fresh install, when you patch it *RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR* Then if you have the space, make a copy of the iRO folder. should you run into such issues again, you have a working copy right there. all you have to do is each week, Log-in VIA the copied folder, get the patch updates and log off. ensuring you always have a working backup if things go wrong on your main iRO folder.


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Posted 27 September 2013 - 12:24 AM



I had a client freeze a few minutes ago after the game crashed, I know it crashed since most vendors in prontera vanished.

 

Anyway now after alt - f4 my way out and trying again to log in is patching files from 2011.... is there anything I did wrong?

 

Yeah, what's wrong is that you're downloading files from 2011.

 

Use this >>click Here<<

 

Once it's done. Uninstall RO and use that file you just downloaded to reinstall.

 

 

You're welcome.


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#8 Alicia

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Posted 27 September 2013 - 01:07 AM

Are you guys remembering to patch as an Administrator each time you patch up?


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Posted 27 September 2013 - 06:33 AM

To patch the client, the patcher downloads patch2.txt (via http) - this contains a list of numbers (in order, but not necessarily sequential) and patch files corresponding to each number.

The patcher stores the number of the last patch applied in patch.inf - it reads this, and if there are higher numbers in patch2.txt, it downloads those patches (via ftp), and applies them. 

After applying all patches, it updates patch.inf

 

Sometimes, in circumstances that remain unclear, patch.inf gets set to 0 - when this happens, it will obviously start patching from the earliest date listed in patch2.txt - april 4, 2011. 

 

When this happens, you need to IMMEDIATELY stop the patcher (if you let it apply any patches, you need to let it apply all the patches from 2011 to now, because the patch it just applied overwrote good data with old data - either that or reinstall). Then:

 

1. Open patch2.txt, and find the number of the most recent patch that you're 100% certain was applied. 

2. Go to Ren's patch.inf generator http://choobs.org/stuff/patch.php enter that number, and download it. 

3. Replace the patch.inf in your RO folder with the one you just downloaded. 

 


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