Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
Simple question, where do patch installers download to?
Patch installer location?
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Maniacal
the green Napoleon
The patch is automatically applied to the game, no installer necessary.
You can disable automatic patching by right-clicking on the Civilization V in your list of Steam games and selecting Properties. There's an option in there to change it to not automatically update if you want.
You can disable automatic patching by right-clicking on the Civilization V in your list of Steam games and selecting Properties. There's an option in there to change it to not automatically update if you want.
Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
Drat, that's what I was afraid of.
I had a backup folder of the game's core XML files in case I accidentally made any changes to them. Problem is, I didn't update the backup folder after the patch and now overwrote the patch XML files with pre-patch XML.
Since the patch doesn't download to an installer I'm guessing I'd have to redownload the whole thing... so...
Could anyone take half a minute to zip their XML folder and attach it to a post for me? Would be greatly appreciated!
I had a backup folder of the game's core XML files in case I accidentally made any changes to them. Problem is, I didn't update the backup folder after the patch and now overwrote the patch XML files with pre-patch XML.
Since the patch doesn't download to an installer I'm guessing I'd have to redownload the whole thing... so...
Could anyone take half a minute to zip their XML folder and attach it to a post for me? Would be greatly appreciated!
Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
I tried that first, but it appeared to be redownloading everything - 5% completed in half an hour. I'd really appreciate it if someone could provide a quick zip of their XML folder. I'm letting it download in the background, but don't really want to wait ten hours to solve a simple problem.
It won't let me start the game while it's downloading, either. Blizzard has a better system, downloads patches while you're playing and stores them locally for easy re-install later. I wish Valve did this... I guess that would be too logical.
It won't let me start the game while it's downloading, either. Blizzard has a better system, downloads patches while you're playing and stores them locally for easy re-install later. I wish Valve did this... I guess that would be too logical.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Nothing lets you play a game while its files are downloading, that would be somewhat illogical. Exception being if the game was designed for you to start playing while it installed the rest of the game, but that never caught on.
And yeah VALVe could improve the download system a bit, but people making Steam games which they know people will mod (like Civilization) should really put in a mod-folder system thing like Morrowind/Oblivion/Fallout 3/NV have or Mount&Blade does.
And yeah VALVe could improve the download system a bit, but people making Steam games which they know people will mod (like Civilization) should really put in a mod-folder system thing like Morrowind/Oblivion/Fallout 3/NV have or Mount&Blade does.
Guild wars and (now) WOW come to mind.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
No that is not what I meant, those games download areas when you get to them. One of the things Microsoft designed for Vista was the ability to start playing a game before it finished installed. I don't know if was ever used though.
