Issues, Workarounds & Localization

So I've been away for 2 weeks and try to update to the latest version.

Launcher fails 3 times having downloaded 2GB of data in 3 separate hits.

Thinking a manual patch is in order I come to this thread only to find that the version I'm on (384443) doesn't have a link. Not even a link to a more recent but not quite up to date patch that the launcher could then do a 30 MB patch from to get a current client.

So in the space of 2 weeks you've consigned me to downloading 4 GB because CCP now has a fetish for releasing patches that basically fix the stuff they broke in the last patch (point release, whatever the **** you want to call it). And these smaller patches introduce yet more erors and bugs that you'll have to patch out again next week.

I hear in fact that you patched 2 or 3 times last week alone.

CCP you are collectively ******* useless. Introducing this point release system basically means you can vomit out rubbish knowing you can cover up your errors with another annoying patch next day.

For the love of God CCP please could you either improve your QA prior to releases so that the coders amongst you can't merrily just release beta code to the masses as they do now or provide more links to previous versions, for versions that are more than, say, 2 weeks old.

If you're still stuck at version 384443, this old link still alive btw. (~683 MB)
http://content.eveonline.com/390556/EVE_Online_384443-390556_win.zip

Then simply use the launcher OR update manually for the rest: (these are small sizes)
http://content.eveonline.com/392804/EVE_Online_390556-392804_win.zip
http://content.eveonline.com/394018/EVE_Online_392804-394018_win.zip
http://content.eveonline.com/394353/EVE_Online_394018-394353_win.zip

As for the latest one, my launcher is downloading it atm but alternative link is still unavailable. Just expect up to 2 hours delay in link updates..

I've updated the links, sorry for the delay.

Don't you get tired of doing this? Couldn't you automate the process to save yourself a lot of time, and the time of the players who wait on these patches?

Why not write a script that runs every day after downtime, putting the latest patches on an open ftp server. Then put a link to that server in the OP, and you'll never have to update this thread again and rarely have to apologize for the delay.

Hey all, so I have taken quite a break from eve during my holidays and when I came back, eve doesn't work on my desktop anymore. When I open eve it runs the launcher and when I click on Play it just sits there and laughs at me =(

However, eve runs on the laptop (i have no idea why that would be) but after sifting through all the different methods people are trying in order to 'fix it'. None of them have worked for me........ I'm currently re-downloading and re-installing eve for the 8th time but I highly doubt whatever I do this time round would make any difference.

CCP once the clients we download off the main EVE website is actually playable and bug free could you please let us know? My laptop is too under-powered to run the game so I'm just gonna put long skills on and give up playing until the problems are gone =(

p.s. my ExeFile is also corrupted or something because the severlog thing says that it doesn't work. majorly lame -_-


furthermore the very first post in 'alternate patching methods is confusing;
1. Download and open the zip file which will take you to the current TQ client version
2. Copy the .patch file into the EVE Online client folder, usually that would be C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE
3. Run the launcher and it'll do the rest for you automatically.
4. Download and open the latest zip file
5. Copy the .patch file into the EVE Online client folder, usually that would be C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE
6. Run the launcher and it'll do the rest for you automatically.

^ Those instructions were a bit hard to follow since it seems steps 4-6 are just repeating exactly what I did in steps 1-3. plus, the launcher is the wrong version anyways. its v.1.321 on my desktop (I know its suppose to be v.1.32 from my laptop). I could only wish that the launcher would do it all automatically.

You sir are a great man!

My updater has downloaded EVE_Online_395875-404131_win.patch about ~110bm file, and then starts downloading
EVE_Online_404131-404131_win.patch about 50.79 mb filel and sucks at 34.66 mb...
I've tried to run repair.exe. Repaire .exe has updated, calculated and found some corrupted files (I think it because repair.exe checks hashs for 404131 but I have 395875, its not patched :( ) And calculates that 50.79 mb data to be downloaded and corrected. In that phase I get about a tonne of messages like this:
Warning: failed to add block - (369524898, 'c#x\xf3\x9f\x8d\xc9\x89\xd4\x861\xe7\xecm\xfa ')
Warning: failed to add block - (-1270873611, '\xeb\xb5\xb5\x94\x05\xd5V\n{@\xf2\xd4]jT\xd6')
Warning: failed to add block - (305712649, '}\xb8p`7\x0e\xc0\x04kv\x1d\xab\x1d\xc2\x07,')
Warning: failed to add block - (-1106515935, '\xf9\x8er-\xf3\x17\x1eU\x96\xa4"\x13\x92\xc1]\xe3')
Restoring: resSpaceEffects.stuff


How to fix everything guys ?? wtf is going here ??

Did you try to run it as Administrator?

http://pastebin.com/hxnFTLtH < because I can't "paste HTML" on the forums


After downloading the client again to work around this, and you guys releasing another two patches I've now spent 4 hours sitting redownloading the 12 gb required to apply a patch that is smaller than 20 seconds of hardcore fetish ****.

The link about the alternative method of patching refuses to work, and I'm missing out on valuable market

I'm on a MAC.

If you could post the whole log, that would be better. There might be a precursor exception that's stopping it from writing the file out, which you're cherry picking has missed.