Installing just CoH, Issues?
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2010-02-10 01:12 in The Global Training Room Test Server
CoH and CoV are now the same game, and have been for a while.
Install either one, and once the updates are done, you will have both. It's currently impossible to have an install which is only one or the other.
@Roderick
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As Roderick stated, it's the same client. Install from whichever disk you have on hand, or download from the CoH website, and you're good to go for either blue or red side.
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Originally Posted by RabidBrian
Will I have issues if I install CoH and not CoV for the test server, even though I have them both installed normally? I cant find one of the disks...so unless theres a client online, I wont be installing it.
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The super easy way to get the Test Server set up is to copy the City of Heroes launcher shortcut that you have on your desktop. (Rename the link something like "CoH Test Server" so you know which is which.) Right click on the copy, and select Properties. For the line where it lists the link to the program, encapsulate the whole thing in quotes and add -test to the end. It should look like this if you've installed it to your default location:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CoHUpdater.exe" -test
Hit OK to accept the changes, then double click the shortcut. It will ask if you want to install the CoH test client, and let you pick where you want to install it to (default is "C:\Program Files\CoHTest\"). Let it begin the install, but when it begins to download things, immediately cancel out.
Navigate to your City of Heroes install directory (default "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\") and hit Ctrl+A to select everything. Copy everything in the directory.
Navigate to your CoHTest install directory, and paste the contents of your CoH directory there.
Go back to your CoH Test Server shortcut and run it again. It will do a repair (takes no more than a few minutes) and then only download the updates beyond what is available on the live servers.
This will save you several hours and a lot of bandwidth. 
(Just to make it extra-easy to differentiate between the two shortcuts at a glance, I also changed my CoH Test Server shortcut to have the City of Villains logo as an icon. 
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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Yeah I downloaded the game again, went to my coh files and created a shortcut from the file cohUpdater, and started the test update. Stopped it, copied the piggs file over, and now its not really downloading. Left it overnight and its still in the 50 hour range...
Dang it! I forget about that little tip.
Coulda saved myself a heck of a lot of time last night.
Eastern Standard Time (Australia)
is 15 hours ahead of
Eastern Standard Time (North America)
which is 5 hours behind
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Hasnt saved me any time... just about half way downloaded...
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This always seemed to work for me in the past. No luck after a Windows reinstall. Updater is fixing files right now. So, I will just let it do its thing.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
The super easy way to get the Test Server set up is to copy the City of Heroes launcher shortcut that you have on your desktop. (Rename the link something like "CoH Test Server" so you know which is which.) Right click on the copy, and select Properties. For the line where it lists the link to the program, encapsulate the whole thing in quotes and add -test to the end. It should look like this if you've installed it to your default location:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CoHUpdater.exe" -test Hit OK to accept the changes, then double click the shortcut. It will ask if you want to install the CoH test client, and let you pick where you want to install it to (default is "C:\Program Files\CoHTest\"). Let it begin the install, but when it begins to download things, immediately cancel out. Navigate to your City of Heroes install directory (default "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\") and hit Ctrl+A to select everything. Copy everything in the directory. Navigate to your CoHTest install directory, and paste the contents of your CoH directory there. Go back to your CoH Test Server shortcut and run it again. It will do a repair (takes no more than a few minutes) and then only download the updates beyond what is available on the live servers. This will save you several hours and a lot of bandwidth. (Just to make it extra-easy to differentiate between the two shortcuts at a glance, I also changed my CoH Test Server shortcut to have the City of Villains logo as an icon. ) |
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FYI, from the way this reads, you have two live server installations: City of Heroes and City of Villains. You can uninstall one of your live server City installations. You can run CoH and CoV from the same installation, they are a combined game. You don't need a CoH install and a CoV install. Meaning you can recover a *LOT* of room on your harddrive by removing one of them (City's up over 3GB these days!).
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Originally Posted by RabidBrian
Will I have issues if I install CoH and not CoV for the test server, even though I have them both installed normally? I cant find one of the disks...so unless theres a client online, I wont be installing it.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Actually, only 2.8 on live, 3.1 on test. I count. Unless you know that with GR it is over 4GB :P
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
FYI, from the way this reads, you have two live server installations: City of Heroes and City of Villains. You can uninstall one of your live server City installations. You can run CoH and CoV from the same installation, they are a combined game. You don't need a CoH install and a CoV install. Meaning you can recover a *LOT* of room on your harddrive by removing one of them (City's up over 4GB these days!).
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Whoops, mistype, meant 3GB (referencing test size since it's the next step)
Paragon Wiki: http://www.paragonwiki.com
City Info Terminal: http://cit.cohtitan.com
Mids Hero Designer: http://www.cohplanner.com
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Thanks for the tip Chad, worked like a charm.
Will I have issues if I install CoH and not CoV for the test server, even though I have them both installed normally? I cant find one of the disks...so unless theres a client online, I wont be installing it.