Streams: PTE and Experimental Builds

Discussion in 'Support!' started by garat, April 23, 2014.

  1. garat

    garat Cat Herder Uber Alumni

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    It will be moot soon. :)
  2. wondible

    wondible Post Master General

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    OSX:
    ~/Library/Application\ Support/Uber\ Entertainment/Planetary\ Annihilation/data/streams/{PTE|stable}/PA.app
  3. zweistein000

    zweistein000 Post Master General

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    I hope people can follow that.
  4. SolitaryCheese

    SolitaryCheese Post Master General

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    It just crashes on startup for me. :(
  5. Mosse

    Mosse Member

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    28MB for a launcher? o_O Why is this?
  6. quevin

    quevin New Member

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    28MB of amazingness
  7. superouman

    superouman Post Master General

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    Black magic.

    Aka very effective programming.
  8. Mosse

    Mosse Member

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    With the PTE, are there servers in Aus or is it strictly US servers?
  9. quevin

    quevin New Member

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    Us Central only
  10. stormingkiwi

    stormingkiwi Post Master General

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    Just play with the lag. I've had better connection to US servers than Aussie in some games.

    Also - A benefit we have is the time difference. Peak usage occurs at whatever time in the US. But then we are displaced by a number of hours. So we are not necessarily competing with the peak usage
    Last edited: April 24, 2014
  11. stormingkiwi

    stormingkiwi Post Master General

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    Why are you not taking advantage of steams ability to opt into updates of products before they are officially released?
  12. wondible

    wondible Post Master General

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    It uses CoherentUI, just like the game. I doubt there is official mod support however.
  13. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    I suppose distribution over Steam CDN still takes a while and Uber need ability to push updates rapidly. E.g they can create new build and it's will be on uberent.com in few minutes while Steam CDN update might take quite a lot of time and usually require client restart if you need update here and now.

    This is why most of MMOs released on Steam still using own launchers/updaters instead of SteamPipe.
  14. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    Actually it's have little PA engine inside or at least some part of it. :D
    And not it's not joke, I'm pretty serious here...

    It's support "--uiurl" as well as far as I know so if you extract HTML/JavaScript then you can create your own UI for launcher. :rolleyes:
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  15. wondible

    wondible Post Master General

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    Release is coming?

    Yeah, yeah, I know

    [​IMG]
  16. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    why bugs forum and not balance forum?
  17. BulletsFrozen

    BulletsFrozen Active Member

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    Who is the genius behind the new design? It is gorgeous :D
  18. duncane

    duncane Active Member

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    For me it hangs on startup ??

    Is it 64 bit only? Yes I know I should upgrade and already have the license bought, but Im too lazy to reinstall everything.
  19. garat

    garat Cat Herder Uber Alumni

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    Actually, the new launcher is explicitly 32-bit, so we don't need two different versions for Windows.

    Few more details on your system? Assume you've played the game before on the old launcher?
  20. duncane

    duncane Active Member

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    Okay I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, rebooting etc, but basically all I get is the UberLancher appearing in the task bar and then it just hangs.

    Attached is my dxdiag

    Attached a pic of it running while its hanging/blank.

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