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It's supposed to speed up how quickly you get into the game when you do a completely fresh install, as you only need to download 300-500MB instead of 7GB. Nowhere was it said that the basic login (once you already have an install done on your computer) would speed up. Shared cache means that if you have multiple clients, including both Singularity/Duality/Tranquility clients, eventually they'll mostly *share* the resources that are identical between the versions (only downloading the test server-specific stuff, for example), instead of forcing you to have a separate >13GB install for each client you want to keep open. This was all explained in the 2 dev blogs on DoD, especially the first one from December.



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Did you install Singularity in a copy of the Tranquility folder, or just directly in the Tranquility folder? You're being a bit unclear by what you mean with e.g. "client" (I understand this to mean only the actual game program once it starts up, you seem to be talking about the launcher instead, or maybe both).

You don't mention making a copy of the TQ folder to install/patch the Singularity client to, and if you didn't (big mistake!), you: 1. primed the cache, which got rid of your stuff files from the tranquility folders (unpacking them to the shared cache folder), 2. Started up the Tranquility, which noticed the stuff files were missing and started the 7GB download to get them again. 3. Somewhere between converting the client to Singularity, starting the 7GB download, patching TQ and canceling the repair tool download midway, your settings got nuked. For the record, I have to start Singularity in DoD mode, and need to use repair+exefile to get it started, and while my settings (at least graphics, UI positions) didn't carry over from TQ to Singularity through all that, my TQ launcher's and client's settings remain just fine.

The only other guess I can make (which seems to be the case from some other peoples' comments as well) is that the unpacking and/or DoD being enabled by default seems to be bugged for many people, so that either it doesn't unpack, or even if it does, it doesn't recognize that it has unpacked, and instead of starting in DoD mode, it starts a full download.

Regarding your TQ client's current status, check if the main/root folder of your TQ install still has the .stuff files. If it does, I dunno what's wrong or how you could fix it to avoid a redownload (if regular repair is trying to redownload). If it doesn't, you'll have to do the new 7GB download to get them back, or copy them from another computer. There almost certainly isn't a way around that. Good luck, hopefully copying the saved UI files back let you keep those at least.

if you used the installer u would have to change the registry to make eve see your tranquility folders as tranquility and change your shortcuts on your desktop and every shortcut in the start menu to your tranquility directory, don't forget to change the registry because if u dont then when you go to uninstall it in add/remove programs it will remove sisi but not tranquility :P

ccp needs to rename the test clients or something so they don't overwrite your tranquility installation as far as the shortcuts and registry are concerned in the process.

all your ui settings and overview are fine, nothing happened to them, its just your eve is looking for them in the wrong directory, its also something the registry change will fix, hopefully.

ccp should just give us the option save these personalized settings on the server >.> im not talking about just the overview but for everything, cause the passwords for all our chat channels gets wiped, chat channels are wiped as well so we have to reopen them, we have to resize all of our windows and everything, re do our fittings, its just a pain in the butt, something we shouldn't have to be bothered with


i thought of a way ccp can give us the test servers, give us the option as a zip folder, or source pulling, cause installers replace registry, we dont want that

you do when you use the test server exe installers :P

yes they are very deadly and need to be changed, so only use them on a different computer where u don't have tq installed on lol

It was my mistake here:

All stuff are working as intended now for me. On-demand resources have been dowloaded quickly, so no any glitch or hanging or black screen (no in fleet just solo environment) observed

My hat's off to all you brave souls. I'm not touching this one until I have to.

Hm - my char was already docked - and had some ships- as I had finished one run of all career agents in Couster and the sisters of eve epic arc.
So apparently I didn't see the "landmark" you wrote about, but I must admit, that I overread that part in the opportunities dev-blog. Maybe opportunities should provide a way to find that landmark - like agent missions present a short list of targets and final destination on the left side of the eve-client below the autopilot route.

But you are right, its off-topic for the download on demand test.

So I had a perfectly working Singularity installation on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.10.2), and of course the launcher updated when I ran /Applications/EVE\ Online\ Singularity.app --args /server:87.237.38.50.

Then a warning about a pre-release launcher, a small patch and a request to prime my cache. With all that done, I clicked Play as usual to launch the client for Singularity and.... nothing, but after a while this message popped up: http://imgur.com/3437hrQ

"TransGaming C Runtime Library ERROR-> buffer overrun!"

What gives CCP Logibro?

Edit: I re-created my entire Singularity folder and started all over. When the time came after upgrading the launcher, I selected "NO", as per the dev blog instructions, to the question if I want to prime my cache.

The client proceeded to display a % based progress of a cache download.. Now here is the buggy /strange thing:

It got to 340/540MB in the download and the % number reached 100% already?

I then checked my incoming traffic for the launcher with a network analyzer app I have and I saw that the launcher was merrily downloading data for quite some time before it eventually stated "client ready"

Now however my Singularity Client periodically crashes in game randomly

Error Message: http://imgur.com/ZLX3D40

same here launcher.exe crash and repair.exe with /server:Singularity wants 7GB patch to download -,- /
removed cache files
formatted hard disk and copied TQ copy there and started patching up when it started download launcher update it closed, at end , then i start it again to get CTD error . log shows that i havr pre-release launcher.

what im doing wrong? cant even start sisi launcher . it crash from start

If you clicked "Yes" to "Prime your cache" it shouldn't download, but unpack the .stuffs (many other people have reported that it starts downloading anyway though). If you click no to the priming question, you're effectively telling it to download the resource cache using DoD,. There's no way NOT to have a resource cache, either by unpacking or by DoDing it, with the current Singularity version, afaik. However, it *should* download in the background without you even noticing much (except some graphics missing occasionally at first), so if it's trying to download the full 7GB and showing the progress bar for that after you clicking "No", that's a bug.


And applying equally both to the above and to this quote:


If your launcher is actually running ok-ish and you can go to the launcher settings, on Windows (not possible on a Mac) it should be *really* easy to move the shared cache location to another drive, instructions have been out for a while at https://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/testing-eve-online-download-on-demand-your-first-steps/