AVWW Beta 0.566/0.567 "OSX Framerates Rejoice" Released!

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Original: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/01/avww-beta-05660567-better-texture.html

This one is another maintenance release of sorts, focusing on this same mantis issue from 0.565.  On the bright side, not only does that issue seem truly dead now (knock on wood), but performance in general has seen yet another boost.  On my OSX laptop I now routinely get 100+ fps, whereas at the start of beta I was more in the 45-55 fps range.

There are also a couple of other tweaks and fixes in this one, and a lot of code work was done that isn't yet visible in the game.  Keith has been hard at work on guardian powers while I've been hunting this one bug, and we hope to have the guardian powers and the related citybuilding stuff out tomorrow (again, knock on wood).  The citybuilding model is incredibly, vastly simpler than the old model we used to use, but I also think it's more fun and much better integrated into the main game itself.

More to come soon.  Enjoy!

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 0.500 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time.  If you don't have 0.500 or later, you can download that here.

[TerraSleet]

My game isn't finding the update for some reason.

[Toll]

Try again; they had to fix the update.

[TerraSleet]

I tried re-installing and it updated itself to 0.565 rather than the new update. 

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That really shouldn't have been possible, unless you caught it just at the wrong time.  0.565 isn't even on the server anymore, as the later releases were cumulative of everything it had: http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWWUpdatesList.xml

Are you running the updater from in-game?  If you try to run the updater directly, it will just unpack what it already downloaded in the past; and in fact if your game was a fresh install and then you just installed 0.565 only on top of it (without all the other updates it then needed), the game is now going to be pretty broken.

[laughingman]

Sweet! You squashed my bug. Thanks for putting in the time and effort. Yet one more reason I keep praising Arcen to everyone I know. Now I can ignore everything and everyone else in my life.

Wait, why was I thanking you again?

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   Thanks a ton for your support, too!  Really glad to have that one behind us, heh.

[TerraSleet]

Yeah I'm trying to update automatically from the main menu (not using the .exe in the folder) but my game just isn't picking up the update. Strange. Could it be a caching issue on my end?

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The game definitely doesn't cache anything there -- it always looks for the latest version.  It could be that the game is being blocked by a firewall or similar, or that the automatically check for updates thing has been disabled on the settings menu.

[TerraSleet]

Just tried uninstalling, wiping the entire folder then reinstalling outside of Program Files. Still nothing 

[x4000]

Still nothing in what sense?  It is giving you an update to an old version, or no updates at all?

EDIT: Also, what do you see at this url?  http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWWUpdatesList.xml

Top line of B567, then B564?

[TerraSleet]

Still nothing in what sense?  It is giving you an update to an old version, or no updates at all?

EDIT: Also, what do you see at this url?  http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWWUpdatesList.xml

Top line of B567, then B564?

Direct copy-paste:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<updatelist>
<update>B565|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW565.zip</update>
<update>B564|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW564.zip</update>
<update>B563|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW563.zip</update>
<update>B560|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW560.zip</update>
<update>B559|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW559.zip</update>
<update>B557|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW557.zip</update>
<update>B555|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW555.zip</update>
<update>B552|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW552.zip</update>
<update>B551|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW551.zip</update>
<update>B550|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW550.zip</update>
<update>B547|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW547.zip</update>
<update>B545|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW545.zip</update>
<update>B542|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW542.zip</update>
<update>B540|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW540.zip</update>
<update>B538|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW538.zip</update>
<update>B537|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW537.zip</update>
<update>B535|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW535.zip</update>
<update>B530|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW530.zip</update>
<update>B529|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW529.zip</update>
<update>B528|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW528.zip</update>
<update>B527|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW527.zip</update>
<update>B524|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW524.zip</update>
<update>B520|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW520.zip</update>
<update>B519|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW519.zip</update>
<update>B511|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW511.zip</update>
<update>B508|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW508.zip</update>
<update>B421|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW421.zip</update>
<update>B419|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW419.zip</update>
<update>B416|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW416.zip</update>
<update>B411|http://avww.s3.amazonaws.com/AVWW411.zip</update>
</updatelist>

Could be a problem with amazon's AWS servers not updating outside the US?


EDIT: I just typed the URL manually and it's downloading the .zip for 0.567, so I'll install the update manually. Thanks for the help.

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Yeah, I think that's exactly what it is, although I've never run into that issue before.  Can you try it now?  Is it improved?

[TerraSleet]

I got the update now, thanks. Loving the new Dungeon Map colors 

[x4000]

Awesome!  I just deleted the file and re-uploaded it, and I guess that fixed whatever had been up with S3.

I'm really loving the colors on the dungeon map also, that was a great idea from Toll!