EVE General Discussion

I'm running up to 3 instances of 1 installation using separate junction points for each (original installation folder, junction 1, junction 2 with separate shortcuts pointing to each) under Windows 7. So far the launcher seems to cope with all that just fine (each instance is launched with its separate cache and settings as intended).

One thing I was wondering about though are the client updates. Currently each instance of the same client prompted for an update separately (this is *after* client is started by the "Play" button in the launcher). Is this the case just this time (what with swiching over to use the launcher and all) or will these keep being rolled out the same way in future updates as well?

PS! Thanks a million for both of the options available under the "Startup" tab in the launcher settings!!11one

There is solution. It is more complicated than just suing simple Junction on NTFS. If someone create second, 3rd etc. copy of installation EVE folder it will make comon place with settings for all shared clients. This common place leads into shared cache and setting for all instances.

Here is my working solution:

• I have one installation folder
• I make separate directory for each other client (I do have 6)
• I do link files from other clients into installation directory
• I do link common folders from other clients into installation directory
• I do have separate folder in each client for settings. This avoid shared config.
• I do launch eve with command line switches to not store configuration in profile via eve.exe /end /LUA:OFF

here is directory structure

eve_base_folder
- box1
- box2
- box3
- ...
- boxn


When there is new pacth I fire client in box1 and patch it, then I run next batch clonegame.cmd

if not exist .\box1\. goto :eof
set log=%temp%\%~n0.log

for /d %%i in (.\box*) do (
  echo Box: %%i
  call :linkdirs %%i
)

goto :eof

:linkdirs
  set box=%1
  set box=%box:*box=%
  if "%box%"==""  goto :eof
  if "%box%"=="1" goto :eof
  
  del /f /q "%1\*" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1
  echo links directories
  for /d %%f in (.\box1\*) do (call :linkit   %%f .\box%box%)
  echo links files
  for %%f in (.\box1\*) do (call :linkfile %%f .\box%box%)

  for %%f in (cache) do (
    rmdir "%1\%%f\" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1 || rmdir /s /q "%1\%%f\" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1
    if not exist "%1\%%f\" %debug% mkdir "%1\%%f" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1
  )

  goto :eof

:linkit
  set dir=%1
  set dir=%dir:.\box1\=%
  if /i "%dir%"=="cache" goto :eof
  if /i "%dir%"=="settings" goto :eof
  if exist "%2\%dir%\" (
    rmdir "%2\%dir%" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1 || rmdir /s /q "%2\%dir%" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1
  )
     
  if not exist "%2\%dir%\" %debug% mklink /j "%2\%dir%" "%1" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1
  goto :eof

:linkfile
  set file=%1
  set file=%file:.\box1\=%
  if not exist "%2\%file%" %debug% mklink  /h "%2\%file%" "%1" >> "%LOG%" 2>>&1
  goto :eof

I have file space occupied only once and I'm able keep fully separated settings for each client instance installed. I keep settings not in profile on computer, so I can move to another computer by just moving "eve_base_folder". I need to patch only once. BTW it works with new Launcher 1.5 without any changes.

This would probably be great if I was able to download the initial, tiny 3.77Mb Launcher.
Alas, somewhere, something is stopping this from happening. Timeouts, over and over and over again.
I am able to browse local and international internet, upload and download at very fast speeds. No issues with the link my side. I am in South Africa, perhaps CCP can check their cache proxy ? Something is badly awry.

Just no EVE downloads, not today, for whatever the reason.

These forums too. I know you said you had problems earlier, but I'm still getting the dreaded "We were ganked" message more often than not and I am pretty sure I have an old 300baud modem somewhere which gets better speeds.

I miss my EVE. Send help please.

o/

This will continue to be the case until we've migrated the "Client Update" functionality into the Launcher, which is near the tippy-top of our roadmap .

Thank you CCP Cascade, looks to be working fine now.

o/

That's what I had thought, thanks for the confirmation. Also, launcher is legit and good job on heavy presence in these threads (don't mind the aggro, haters gonna hate )

Looking forward to the future iterations..

Do you mean that after you click Play, it stays open and doesn't close? If so, go into the settings menu for the Launcher and have a look at the startup options in there. There is an option to make it close after clicking Play.

Then open the EVE folder, and move the .patch file you will find in there out of that folder. Then you will be able to open it.

This is a known issue that we have resolved and will deploy as soon as we are able to.

The download just doesn't start. I'm at (4/7) Calculating patch: Initalizing . . .

I saw some guy had this same issue, but on step (6/7).

EDIT: Posting this seemed to solve the issue. As soon as I clicked post it finished the 4th step. Although it is going awfully slow for a 3 Mbit download. Has anyone else been having this issue?

EDIT 2: I thought that it had finished, but it just went to 100% and not advancing to the next step. I tried the repair.exe, but that didn't do anything for my problem. I get this error message: See the logfile 'C:\Users\ES~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nsqBD83.tmp\patch_win.exe.log' for details.

So, this launcher rubbish is supposed to be good is it?

Before Launcher:-
1. Start first Eve client, see there is a patch, close client.
2. Go to website, download patch, save to "Eve Patches" folder
3. Go to Eve Patches folder
4. Doubleclick patch file, install for default Eve folder
5. Repeat 4 for Eve2 folder
6. Repeat 4 for Eve3 folder
7. Repeat 4 for Eve4 folder.
8. Start first client and play game.

This patch
1. Start first Eve client, see there is a patch, close client
2. Go to website and find there are no more downloadable patches.
3. Start client 1 again to download patch
4. Start client 2 to download patch
5. Start client 3 to download patch
6. Start client 4 to download patch
7. Close all clients, first one starts patching, clients 2, 3 & 4 crash because only 1 patcher can run at a time
8. Client 1 downloads 22Mb patch
9. Client 1 installs patch and starts launcher
10. Launcher downloads 167Mb patch and installs it
11. Luckily I've read the forums and found I can export patch, so export patch to "Eve Patches" folder
12. Close client 1 launcher
13. Start client 2, it says patch has already been downloaded so restart and it starts patching.
14. Client 2 downloads the same 22Mb patch client 1 downloaded
15. Client 2 installs patch and starts launcher
16. Launcher starts downloading 167Mb patch again
17. Quickly jump to tools menu and import patch, this interrupts the download and installs the patch
18. Close Launcher
19. Repeat steps 13-18 for clients 3 and 4
20. Having read in the launcher settings that downloads the patch to the client root directory, go to check, and find that all 4 client folders now have a copy of the 167Mb patch in them which I don't need, so delete. Must set launchers 2-4 so they delete the patch after use, launcher 1 I'll have to manually delete the files because I'll need to export in future.

Please tell me that this launcher is not going to waste so much time with future patches?

Drahcir