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Speaking of optimization..
Currently I update two clients for different test servers with DoD daily with "download all resources" option enabled.
For some reason both launchers begin full resource check occasionally, even if there was no client update. This process could take 5-7 minutes affecting HDD and processor heavily. Maybe there are some cross-client conflicts (like resfileindex_md5 same for both servers or something else) that cause this? I wonder if this will affect TQ-Sisi clients later.

Inspired by DoD, the new NPE starting-in-space and static site etc, and the new icons (yay! It's possible to tell apart frigates and destroyers at a glance from the icons, not just the names!), I tried firing up the test server with the DoD client yesterday.

Since I don't have the space to spare on my C drive, it felt like the easiest way to try it was to get a fresh install (I have a pretty good internet connection anyway), since that seemed to be the easiest to set up so the stuff goes into the right partition right away.

I got the installer from the link in the first dev blog about DoD from last December, since the newer ones didn't have direct download links for an installer that I noticed. Ok, I'll admit to being a bit too lazy to fiddle about with copying the entire EVE folder (it takes longer than downloading a new installer!), deleting the files, unpacking the .stuffs etc.

So I got the installer, set it to install in a new folder, made a shortcut, and added /server:Singularity to the target line like the wiki article says. When I tried to start it up, first the launcher crashed (might have had something to do with the fact that I was still logged on to Tranquility on my regular install?). After a restart and after every subsequent restart, the launcher would start up fine and log in fine (and even show the number of pilots online... 83 at the time), and it did do a launcher update, but the play button was greyed out, and it didn't seem to be doing anything in terms of downloading assets or patching (grey progress bar at the bottom, no text indicating any activity). It did once create the C:\Program Data\CCP\EVE\Sharedcache folder (grr!), but they remained empty. Whenever I tried to click on the cog button to see about changing the folder, the launcher either didn't respond to the click at all or crashed (basic Windows error popup, "launcher.exe has stopped working").

So that's my 2 cents so far, and a plea for help at the same time: any ideas on what went wrong?

edit: after the launcher patched itself, it was version 2.2.865769. It never asked to prime the cache. I can run my Tranquility install just fine.

My piece of feedback, first test.

I copy my eve files to another HD, then point the shortcut to Singularity and start the launcher. It update to the new version without problem, then close. I started it again, get the message, click yes and then I choose to prime the cache, aka unpack my stuffs files. It take some time, but rum ok without problem.

When it finish the unpacking, everything went to the C: drive as expected, around 12.5 GB of files. So I open the launch setting and change the location of the sharedcache to the drive I want it, in this case E: and close the launcher. After launcher close, I move the sharedcache folder from drive C: to E: and started the launcher again, which started the patch process to update to singularity. It was around 30Mb download. Launcher finish the patching process and show the “client is ready” message, and then I log only one of my accounts.

The first login take some time to load, around 30 second of black screen with only the spinning well at top left. After I choose my character, I get another clack screen and wait more 30 seconds. After that, I get the load station environment only, no ship image. I open the inventory and try to change ships. The active ship indicator change to the desire ship, but no ship show in the screen at any time. I try to change ships seven or eight times but no luck, only the station background. Another thing I notice was that all the icons from module, ammo and stuffs was missing at my inventory and appears to being downloading because after some seconds the icon image shows. Things are noting looking good, therefore, I close the client and the launcher.

After second start, no problem with the launcher, and client was more responsive with only a few seconds of black screen. That time ship appears inside station and I was able to change ships without problem with all ship showing ok. I then log my second account.

After undock, no ship or station image, only the background nebula. After some time, around 1 minute, station shows but still no ship (picture: http://i.imgur.com/58dCH5j.png). So I dock and undock again, this time station and ship show ok. Then I undock the other account, which show the ship ok. So I start to alt tab between the clients and note that at one of then I was seeing the two ships in space, but at another only one ship was appearing, the other ship was missing (pictures: http://i.imgur.com/J34Bvct.png and http://i.imgur.com/RSQaA3P.png). I did not understand because if the two models are already showing in one of the clients it supposed to show at another, since both clients are supposed to share the same cache.

In addition, I notice at the top left corner a spinning well, on both clients. I did not understand the why but it could be that something was still being downloading. It was supposed to download noting because I did the prime process and the launcher patching to singularity version without problem and then show the “client is ready” message. So, to be sure, I close the two clients and then went to launcher settings and mark the check box “download all the resource files”, close the launcher and start it again.

When launcher boot up it started to download 8.67 GB of files (picture: http://i.imgur.com/LcXwTI5.jpg). Wtf! I did the prime process. It supposed to download nothing more. If the prime process did not work, it expected to give me a warning message, at least. Also, if it not worked, how it created 12.5 Gb of files?

Well, that is my first try. Tomorrow I will have more time to do more tests.

Castelo

Read what you quoted again. Patching before you start to play IS the way you opt out of DoD. As is downloading a full install just like you do now, instead of DoDing everything to the cache (and it's only one download per resource anyway, until that resource is updated in a patch due to improved textures or something).

This snippet from the early parts of this thread:

probably should have read:
Incidentally, we will continue to provide a full-installer for those wishing to use that.
That might've helped avoid some confusion from people denouncing this change as bad, because they don't understand it/haven't fully read the dev blogs on the topic.



and offtopic, but what the heck:

So they didn't deploy the new landmark sites, showcased in the same dev blog as opportunities, yet? Or you just didn't check them out? Each starter system should have one, apparently, if they've been added. If you had read the dev blog in question, you should know that when opportunities go live, the plan is to have new players start in space at a site with some veldspar and a few rats, so they get to try out the opportunities stuff immediately. If older players need to spend a few minute or three to find an NPC to target etc, that's a really minor problem. And anyway, what's stopping you from doing a couple of missions of the military career tutorials to get to one with NPC targets to fight, I haven't read anything about the career tutorial missions being removed?

Try launching with the exefile (make a shortcut with /server:Singularity for \bin\exefile.exe as you would for eve.exe), that allowed me to get into the client directly, and DoD does still start from the client too. Can't set the shared cache location though, at least not in any easy way. If that doesn't work, try doing a sisi repair first.

For more things I tried, read my posts a couple of posts ago, and the thread I linked to in those.

That's the point, I wanted to try the DoD version.

OK, so I started again from scratch, with a fresh copy of EVE TQ's folder, and so I confirm that DoD isn't working for me.

If I choose to prime the cache, everything is OK.
But if I don't prime it, then the download start and it always get stuck at some point and the launcher freezes.
If I restart it, the download start again but get stuck even sooner each time until the point when it freezes immediatly.

Please note that I have enough space on my SSD and that I never had any problem with the main TQ's launcher.
Note too that I also cleared all Sisi related folders in all locations (AppData, ProgrammData and Program Files) before trying that again.

Edit
Nah, it isn't even OK if I prime my cache as the launcher start downloading the same 529.72 MB "update to res cache" as soon as the prime cache extraction finishes and the download get stuck again, and the launcher freezes.

I am on test server now and i can tell you right now there is no difference what so ever between the speed you login with the old launcher and the Download on demand....and from what i understand DoD is suppose to give us a lot more speed logging in? so i hope this new share cache is not some new kind spyware to spy on our computers or something...´´SHARE CACHE´´ don´t know what thats all about people

I don´t know

You obviously missed something and did something wrong.
Can't tell you when or where however, and I'm getting a bit tired of all EVE's related new stuff right now and loosing my patience, sorry.

Hope someone can help you, but... I think that at this point all you can do is redownload all TQ's folder and configure again your settings from scratch... =/

Good luck! o7