updating game on OSX 10.9.2

[riadsala]

Hi,

I downloaded TLF from gog.com last night. The version installed from gog 0.990. I tried updating the in-game tool, and it DLs the patch, then quits out of the game/crashes. I have tried running the update tool too but that doesn't help either. However, if I run "Arcen Updater" from the desktop, this takes me into v1.0 of the game. Which seems odd. Surely i'm not meant to load the game by running "Arcen Updater" rather than "Last Federation" ?

[WhiteSeraph]

Got the same error, but with 10.8.5   I'd post this to mantis
http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/my_view_page.phps if I were you

[riadsala]

ok done.

Here's hoping this is something minor and easy to fix... it's not often I buy a game on release, and it's frustrating to see there's already a new patch, but I can't get hold of it!

[madcow]

Hmm, it's been launching fine on the steam version for me.

Though on the topic of mac issues, have any of you mac users been having issues with slowdowns? I seem to have brief stalls every few seconds and it's really annoying. I wasn't getting them earlier in the beta/alpha. Curious if it's just me or not.

Edit: If anybody knows how to make the framerate pop up, that would be awesome. I know I've done it on previous arcen titles.

[Azurian]

Hmm, it's been launching fine on the steam version for me.

Though on the topic of mac issues, have any of you mac users been having issues with slowdowns? I seem to have brief stalls every few seconds and it's really annoying. I wasn't getting them earlier in the beta/alpha. Curious if it's just me or not.

Edit: If anybody knows how to make the framerate pop up, that would be awesome. I know I've done it on previous arcen titles.

Go to Settings --> Graphics-----. click on "Show FPS in Chat Log"

[x4000]

Okay, here's an overview of how the updater process works on OSX, and this may help you then figure out what is going on based on what you see in your folder:

1. You out the game in a folder, which we'll just call /TLF/ for the sake of brevity.
2. You then run /TLF/LastFederation.app to play the game.
3. The game downloads this xml file and looks to see if a newer version is available: http://lastfed.s3.amazonaws.com/TLFUpdatesList.xml"
4. If there is a newer version available, it puts up the in-game button that lets you do the download.
5. If you elect to click that button and go through the updater process, then the game itself downloads some number of zip files (however many are new since your last update) into the /TLF/RuntimeData/updates/ folder.
6. The game then shuts itself down, and launches /TLF/UDA/ArcenUpdater.app
NOTE: If the latter does not launch for some reason, then the game files will have been downloaded, but not applied next time you run /TLF/LastFederation.app
7. If you run /TLF/UDA/ArcenUpdater.app manually, or the game triggers it, then all it does is look in the /TLF/RuntimeData/updates/ folder, find all of the numbered zip files in there, unzip them, delete them, and then run /TLF/LastFederation.app
NOTE: Actually some of the files from the zip get put into /TLF/DB/ as a subfolder, and then those get further moved into /TLF/LastFederation.app/Contents/Data/ as a way to make it so that one download can easily serve all three OSes supported by the game.  That then leaves you with an empty /TLF/DB/ folder at the end of the process, but this is just purely a minor note.

To me what it sounds like happened in riadsala's case is that it got through stage 5 just fine, and then for some reason on stage 6 did not launch /TLF/UDA/ArcenUpdater.app.  But then when that was launched manually, it did everything else fine.  After that point it was updated, so just running /TLF/LastFederation.app from then on would be running the updated version of the game just fine.

Apologies for the length of this response, but I figured that a full explanation of what is going on behind the scenes might either help bring to light the problem, or reassure you that all is well with your installation, whichever turns out to be appropriate in your case.

Thanks for your support!

[riadsala]

Thanks for the reply. One of the reasons why I break my "don't bother buying new games on release" rule

So, here's the situation here. I have a folder under Applications call "The Last Federation." In that folder, there are two programs: "Last Federation" and "Arcen Updater." As far as subfolders go, I have three: "DB", "Runtime Data" and "UpdaterData". I can not see a "UDA" folder

From your reply, is sounds like Arcen Updater is in the wrong place?

Also, it sounds like if I run Arcen Updater, I should then get into the lastest version of the game? However, this isn't the case. I am still stuck with 0.990 when I run "Last Federation" and 1.000 when I run "Arcen Updater." I have tried to update to 1.001 (after launching the game via Arcen Updater) but this doesn't install the update, hence I am still on v1.000

[x4000]

Ah -- it sounds like Gog.com has put things in the wrong locations, apologies about that.  They split out the files that I originally gave them, and I think they must have moved some stuff around.  What you can do to fix this on your install is pretty simple:

1. Create a UDA folder inside the "The Last Federation" folder in your applications directory.
2. Copy the UpdaterData and the ArcenUpdater into that folder.

All should then be well.  I will reach out to Gog, thanks for alerting me to this.

[riadsala]

Ah -- it sounds like Gog.com has put things in the wrong locations, apologies about that.  They split out the files that I originally gave them, and I think they must have moved some stuff around.  What you can do to fix this on your install is pretty simple:

1. Create a UDA folder inside the "The Last Federation" folder in your applications directory.
2. Copy the UpdaterData and the ArcenUpdater into that folder.

All should then be well.  I will reach out to Gog, thanks for alerting me to this.

Great, thanks, that more or less works. I still have to run Arcen Updater from the desktop, but I can now get up to 1.001, and running "Last Federation" now loads of the latest version (unlike earlier0

[x4000]

Excellent!  Glad that works at least.  And I have let GOG know about it.

[Roel]

I've tried this fix, but it doesn't work for me.
After moving the files into the suggested folder it doesn't launch the updater automatically as stated above. I did manage to fix this by renaming "Arcen Updater.app" to "ArcenUpdater.app". However my version sticks at 0.9 unless I launch the game by using the updater app instead of the Last Federation app. When I launch it using the updater app the new version number shows, but I'm not able to set my resolution any higher then before (higher resolution support was added in the latest update right?).