gj again stardock impulse all of you

after 5 fails it is downloading now but stopping all the time for several minutes

i love you guys, you really know how to make patches and distribute them

good job

Yes, you need Impulse to get the 1.1 patch.

Dam, oh well. It's ot like I really eed the patch ayway.

Grr, dam this keyoard.

Smaller download sizes.

Quicker patching (using patchers makes for a lot of developer 'overhead' work, so more time can be spent patching, less time testing the stuff to install the patch).

Ease of use -- 99.9% of people have no troubles running Impulse, and so far most of the problems have been 'growing pains' that have quickly been ironed out.

Patch Control -- this is an SD benefit, this lets them more easily control who the patch gets to, preventing pirates from going anywhere.

The manual updates were only available as Impulse was not ready for distribution, so they provided them as an alternative. It is in the manual that Impulse is how Sins is updated...

Thanks for the update.

My Sins is running with 1.1 now.

What the heck... Ive tried and retried to download the patch 4 times now.  Every time it gets to 100% but says:

"Experiencing network difficulties (100.0%) - The operation has timed out"

Any help?

Edit: Remedy though crappy... uninstall and reinstall the game.

My 1.1 experience:

first my impulse was out of date. i went to the hp downloaded new version, installed it, but every time i got a some kind of serious error and impulse try to restarted and failed every time. deinstalled impulse. reinstalled. searching cd key. add registration. finally. first problem solved

after 5 fails it finally started to download with a lot of breaks. it took me 2 hours to retrieve the patch

surprisingly installation worked without problems

started the game at about 8 o´clock CET.... WOW 48 people online. amazing

opened a 2v2 and after some quality time of waiting i got a game

everything worked fine, until the fight started and we realized that the whole game ran out of sync at one point and everyone is playing his own game.

conclusio:

i am deeply surprised how you managed to do such a horrible job on a patch you worked so long on. and your patch distribution is a insolence

i buy several computer games every year, but this is the worst support i have ever seen. i mean, yeah you are nice people and stay in touch with the community, thats not what i mean with worst.

worst = very poor technical skills and bad management

conte

On one computer it was OK in my case, however my second computer had problems with Galactic civilisation II. I had to clear temporary file directory and Impulse worked fine again. There may be a problem after bad download being stored in the computer. I guess Impulse use the bad one from temp instead of the new attempt to download.

I'm not sure about the problem you are having.  A group of friends and I all downloaded the 1.1 patch and played the game fine last night without any issues.

My experience was a little odd. I was catching hell from Impulse, as it wanted to update. After a reboot (something wanted to do something apparently) that went smooth, but then I kept getting an 'invalid key' error. Half an hour later, went to the registration page and somehow my key got cluster-<censored>ed. First half was right, second half I don't even know... changed it to what's in my case and it proceeded to download and install smoothly. Tried a quick solo game and everything seemed fine (after I reset my graphics preferences). I can tell some things look a little better, but I'm not entirely convinced the graphics are running smoother on my 3 and a half year old system. Still, extremely playable. Still fun.

The new UI stuff is great too. Haven't figgured out the auto-group ruleset that's supposed to be there, but takes time. So far, I say great job.

As it is required for this patch, I'm throwing my thoughts on Impulse in here... so feel free to skip the rest if you arn't interested in that.

As far as Impulse goes, I can't say I'm happy about it either. It's not a bad system, and certianly better than Ste@m (in my opinion... that thing crawls for me). Still, on principal I'm not pleased with having a whole extra program just to patch one thing. Expecially a program riddled with ads and demos and a bunch of social crap I'll never use. It's nice for some, but not so much for me. In a game with a launcher owned by basically the same company, I don't see why you couldn't input the relevant code of Impulse into the SINS launcher and have a nice, lightweight updater.

Also, while it's not a concern for most people, it's also one more thing I'd have to worry about playing nice with Wine if I decide I want to try and reboot back to Windows less.

If the stand-alone patchers are really all that bad... maybe a timed release might be a consideration. First on impulse, then the standalone redistributable later (kinda like MS does with the service packs and such). Hell, you can torrent those... who cares?

My 2 cents.

Largely just you - most people have no issues