Unofficial Bloodlines Patch 4.5 released!

Werner Spahl wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, willbill wrote:

>> as a follow-on, the stuff in Werner's unofficial updates is highly
>> compressible with highly compressible data there are sometimes *major*
>> diffs in the result size, given different compression programs

> Exactly. The major gaming sites do only accept normal ZIP archives as
> these are handled by Windows XP itself but the installer uses the much
> better 7ZIP compression. This explains the file size differences.


yes, i found my download of 7zip, parked under oblivion.

my new file manager integrated 7zip into it's menu

site: http://www.7-zip.org/

current version 4.57, whereas my version
is 4.42 (soon to be replaced with 4.57!)

>> fwiw, my best guess at this point is that i misread the "basic" word
>> into thinking that with recent zip files one could do 1st a "basic"
>> fixit update (keeping close to the original released package w/1.2

> The basic patch is only available from versions 3.x forward and I would
> not recommend installing one of the older patches. Better go official 1.2
> first, which is quite playable, and then get 4.5 from a friend with DSL.


i have several real friends, but none w/high-speed internet

so i'm bracing myself for a 20 hour d/l

fwiw, i'm already very impressed with VTM-Bloodlines
(much more than VTM-Redemption which i played thru twice)

so i have a strong sense of why you've spent large
amounts of personal time to fix Bloodline's many problems

thank you very much for that!

bill
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willbill typed on Wed 16 Jan 2008 12:42 PM:
> i have several real friends, but none w/high-speed internet
> so i'm bracing myself for a 20 hour d/l

What, for 157MB? - I'm only on 56k dial-up and can get 100MB per
5 hours, so 157MB = 8 hours or so. You should check your phone
line, possibly unplug the other phones in your house (sometimes
too many phones can really slow it down) - and if it still takes
that long, maybe complain to your ISP.

(I bet the broadband'rs are laughing at us right about now )

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};> Matt v3.2 <:{
 >> Stay informed about: Unofficial Bloodlines Patch 4.5 released! 

Matt v3.2 wrote:

> willbill typed on Wed 16 Jan 2008 12:42 PM:

>> i have several real friends, but none w/high-speed internet
>> so i'm bracing myself for a 20 hour d/l


> What, for 157MB? - I'm only on 56k dial-up and can get 100MB per
> 5 hours, so 157MB = 8 hours or so. You should check your phone
> line, possibly unplug the other phones in your house (sometimes
> too many phones can really slow it down) - and if it still takes
> that long, maybe complain to your ISP.



last weekend, i downloaded the ver. 4.5 *zip* file
from gamespot (since gamespot still didn't appear
to be carrying the smaller exe, due to my getting
far better response with gamespot)

my file manager shows size of: 230,176,482 bytes

i kept accurate time of how long it took; it took
18 hours (+/- 20 minutes)

fwiw, i got 3 CRC errors, which i suspect are
already there on the gamespot site.

the 7zip program that i use, unzips it all
and reports any issues that come up (vs. some
unzip programs that come to a screeching
halt when a zip has a CRC error)

bill
 >> Stay informed about: Unofficial Bloodlines Patch 4.5 released! 

Thus spake willbill <trek.RemoveThis@worldwide.net>, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:37:42 -0600,
Anno Domini:

>Matt v3.2 wrote:
>
>> willbill typed on Wed 16 Jan 2008 12:42 PM:
>
>>> i have several real friends, but none w/high-speed internet
>>> so i'm bracing myself for a 20 hour d/l
>
>
>> What, for 157MB? - I'm only on 56k dial-up and can get 100MB per
>> 5 hours, so 157MB = 8 hours or so. You should check your phone
>> line, possibly unplug the other phones in your house (sometimes
>> too many phones can really slow it down) - and if it still takes
>> that long, maybe complain to your ISP.
>
>
>
>last weekend, i downloaded the ver. 4.5 *zip* file
>from gamespot (since gamespot still didn't appear
>to be carrying the smaller exe, due to my getting
>far better response with gamespot)
>
>my file manager shows size of: 230,176,482 bytes
>
>i kept accurate time of how long it took; it took
>18 hours (+/- 20 minutes)
>
>fwiw, i got 3 CRC errors, which i suspect are
>already there on the gamespot site.
>
>the 7zip program that i use, unzips it all
>and reports any issues that come up (vs. some
>unzip programs that come to a screeching
>halt when a zip has a CRC error)
>
>bill

If you post which files had the CRC errors, someone here who has the latest
patch d/led might be kind enough to zip up just those 3 & stick them on a
file hosting site for you .

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Nostromo
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Nostromo wrote:

> Thus spake willbill

>> Matt v3.2 wrote:

>>> willbill typed on Wed 16 Jan 2008 12:42 PM:
>>>> i have several real friends, but none w/high-speed internet
>>>> so i'm bracing myself for a 20 hour d/l
>>
>>> What, for 157MB? - I'm only on 56k dial-up and can get 100MB per
>>> 5 hours, so 157MB = 8 hours or so. You should check your phone
>>> line, possibly unplug the other phones in your house (sometimes
>>> too many phones can really slow it down) - and if it still takes
>>> that long, maybe complain to your ISP.
>>
>>
>> last weekend, i downloaded the ver. 4.5 *zip* file
>>from gamespot (since gamespot still didn't appear
>> to be carrying the smaller exe, due to my getting
>> far better response with gamespot)
>>
>> my file manager shows size of: 230,176,482 bytes
>>
>> i kept accurate time of how long it took; it took
>> 18 hours (+/- 20 minutes)
>>
>> fwiw, i got 3 CRC errors, which i suspect are
>> already there on the gamespot site.


fwiw, now some 30+ days later, i suspect
that my "free" download manager has problems,
and i've updated it


>>
>> the 7zip program that i use, unzips it all
>> and reports any issues that come up (vs. some
>> unzip programs that come to a screeching
>> halt when a zip has a CRC error)


the 7zip program has been solid


>>
>> bill
>
> If you post which files had the CRC errors, someone here who has the latest
> patch d/led might be kind enough to zip up just those 3 & stick them on a
> file hosting site for you .


see above

fwiw, the CRC errors with my download of Werner's
4.5 version don't seem to have made any issues.

bill
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