Have issues getting to the beta?

parcival · Post by **parcival** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:51 pm

Thanks for looking into it. Same results with FreeBeer when run without ASGS.
I tried ASGS and AU kicked in and now I get "(BETA) Unable to secure Allegiance Installation" (Non Beta works fine after an Update/Repair).
I think the next version on AU will fix this though. I'll report back on Wednesday.

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:39 pm

parcival wrote:QUOTE (parcival @ Jul 19 2010, 04:51 PM) Thanks for looking into it. Same results with FreeBeer when run without ASGS.
I tried ASGS and AU kicked in and now I get "(BETA) Unable to secure Allegiance Installation" (Non Beta works fine after an Update/Repair).
I think the next version on AU will fix this though. I'll report back on Wednesday.

Beta Wednesdays using ASGS will only work on a given Wednesday and you will need to download a new file from ASGS Beta Mode every Wednesday.

On non-Wednesday days, if you still want to test, you will have to do a direct download of the potentially unstable (people are submitting fixes for testing all of the time) bleeding-edge installer at your choice.

Raven_42 · Post by **Raven_42** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:34 pm

I'm totally willing to help beta test, but not to do a whole fresh install every Wednesday - if it can work with ASGS beta mode then all well and good. But again, .mdl files are downloaded by ASGS when Beta mode is selected, and critical files are update/repaired, but their signatures are invalid, and ASGS continually tries to redownload instead of launching. Specifically newgamescreen.mdl, but that may just be the first one it finds. Ah well.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:38 pm

If you try the installer it will look for a 1.1 ArtPath then download just the files you need.

Post by **pkk** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:38 pm

Raven_42 wrote:QUOTE (Raven_42 @ Aug 11 2010, 06:34 PM) I'm totally willing to help beta test, but not to do a whole fresh install every Wednesday - if it can work with ASGS beta mode then all well and good. But again, .mdl files are downloaded by ASGS when Beta mode is selected, and critical files are update/repaired, but their signatures are invalid, and ASGS continually tries to redownload instead of launching. Specifically newgamescreen.mdl, but that may just be the first one it finds. Ah well.

You don't need to run the installer every time beta got updated.

All you need is running THE INSTALLER one time and than launching BETA without ASGS!

BETA will keep itself up-to-date without ASGS.

PS:
ASGS pushs outdated version.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:35 pm

pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Aug 11 2010, 11:38 AM) You don't need to run the installer every time beta got updated.

+1 i don't think a lot of folks realize Beta AU works correctly, they are too used to the other two broken update systems ;p

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:21 pm

My old computer has to run r5 in windowed mode. I don't think anyone who has to run in windowed mode can run R6.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:55 pm

raum, we just identified an issue with R5 (and R6)

fullscreen will not work if you do not have a wheel on your mouse.

i'm sorry

http://trac.alleg.net/ticket/217#comment:1

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:26 pm

Imago's old installer (before the devteamsplit) changed the artwork folder to c:\fazr6\artwork, uninstalling didn't change it back.

Solution is described there -> http://www.freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.ph...e#Registry_keys

edit: after solving you need to run update critical files one more time.

edit2: above actions allowed me to start the game, and to join the lobby without crash. But i got a crash launching a game just before the countdowns starts. Message:
Could not open the artwork file allegpath\artwork\e_smokebmp.mdl (and others)