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Posted - 2015.02.27 04:24:52 -
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CCP Goliath wrote:Crossposting this news article that is particularly important relating to DoD on Singularity.
Please read the following information before you log onto the test server Singularity for the first time after Download-on-Demand has been deployed.
When Download-on-Demand has been published on Singularity, you will be offered the chance to "prime your cache". This means that the launcher will extract your existing resources into the new cache-location the Download-on-Demand EVE Client uses.
While this step will eventually let you select where you want to place your resource folder, this will not be the case at first on Singularity. If you accept and let the launcher perform this conversion, the location for your resources will now be at: "C:\ProgramData\CCP\EVE\SharedCache".
There is a workaround available to Windows users, if you do not want this to be the location for your resource-cache:
When the launcher asks you if you want to prime your cache, select GÇ£noGÇ¥. When the launcher declares the client ready, go to the Settings-cog in the right upper corner of the launcher. Go to the download-tab and change the GÇ£Shared cache location:GÇ¥ field to the location of your choice. Save, and restart the launcher.
You should be aware, that doing this, you will not have converted your existing stuff files, so you will be running a GÇ£trueGÇ¥ Download-on-Demand client. We would of course love for some of you to try this and give us your feedback!
If you do have space on your C: drive, you can also go through the priming process, and then move the SharedCache folder, while also changing the Shared Cache location setting in the launcher. This way you will not be downloading the resources, as you already have them in place.
i tried it without priming and it worked fine. After that i even removed everything from the SISI installation except the launcher folder and eve.exe and restarted. Launcher patched the missing files and it worked too.
Finally, i changed the path to the cache in the launcher setting to point to the folder of the SISI installation (i don't like the idea of next-gen-TQ and SISI using the same cache) and it worked too. After flying around a bit and shooting npcs the whole folder including cache is about 2.2gb big.
Good job i would say. Everything worked rather smoothly, i saw textures updating in a few cases to the high res version and sound seams to have a low download priority (first fight in the belt was rather quiet, second belt had weapon sounds).
edit: i didn't start a new char so it probably skipped the whole char creator download which is quite large i assume. edit 2: the reason why i removed the files in the SISI folder manually is because i initially thought the on-demand download does not work since the client kept using the old files (cache folder did not grow over 500mb or so.. sound was there etc). But its difficult to say if it really was the case
how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
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