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i21. Have you got it yet?

Hyperstrike

By Hyperstrike,
Posted on: 2011-09-13 24:11 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Okay guys. We all hate absorbing the ginormous patches that come with issues. It takes forever (or seemingly so) even on fast connections.

If you want to be ready once the servers come back up:

  1. Fire up the bare NCSoft launcher right now.
  2. Click on File --> Settings
  3. Click on the Auto Update tab
  4. Make sure "Automatically download and apply updates (recommended) is checked.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Let it trickle-download. Don't (as in DO NOT) try to manually force the download (it's more likely to fail on something and try to redownload the entire damn thing).
  7. Once the update is slurped down let it apply.
  8. Once it's applied, right-click on the CoH launcher and select Repair (Consistency Check).
  9. Don't be freaked if it has to download more stuff. Sometimes the patches aren't complete. Mine needed to pull down another 80MB of fixes.
  10. Run the Repair function again to make sure it doesn't download anything other than the file manifest. Keep running it until the only thing it's grabbing is the file manifest.
  11. Run the game (no you can't log in, but there's ANOTHER check before it starts up again). You may or may not have an issue there requiring another run of the Repair function.
  12. You should be able to get to the login screen and maybe the server list at this point.
Now, once the servers go LIVE, you MAY need to pull down one more relatively small patch. But the majority of the work will already be done.


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I'm getting this message:

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We have detected missing or corrupt game files, please run the "Repair" option in NCsoft Launcher to fix this. The game will now exit.
Will this be fixed eventually by Repairing again and again? I've already run four Repairs. It's working on the fifth now.

 

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Already downloaded the patch earlier this morning. Took a little under an hour. I'm primed and ready to go!

 

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Got it all downloaded and ready to go shame that by the time the server,s come on line I will be getting ready for sleep damn I hate 4.30 am alarm calls

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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
Okay guys. We all hate absorbing the ginormous patches that come with issues. It takes forever (or seemingly so) even on fast connections.

If you want to be ready once the servers come back up:

  1. Fire up the bare NCSoft launcher right now.
  2. Click on File --> Settings
  3. Click on the Auto Update tab
  4. Make sure "Automatically download and apply updates (recommended) is checked.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Let it trickle-download. Don't (as in DO NOT) try to manually force the download (it's more likely to fail on something and try to redownload the entire damn thing).
  7. Once the update is slurped down let it apply.
  8. Once it's applied, right-click on the CoH launcher and select Repair (Consistency Check).
  9. Don't be freaked if it has to download more stuff. Sometimes the patches aren't complete. Mine needed to pull down another 80MB of fixes.
  10. Run the Repair function again to make sure it doesn't download anything other than the file manifest. Keep running it until the only thing it's grabbing is the file manifest.
  11. Run the game (no you can't log in, but there's ANOTHER check before it starts up again). You may or may not have an issue there requiring another run of the Repair function.
  12. You should be able to get to the login screen and maybe the server list at this point.
Now, once the servers go LIVE, you MAY need to pull down one more relatively small patch. But the majority of the work will already be done.

It's amazing that anyone is able to get the game fully patched when the method to do so is this absurd. Thank you Hyper!