auto update

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

think im cursed

i seem to have a problem with Auto update now i just loaded gameex up and updated like normal and it seems to want to update again on reload, i have let it run and its done 4 updates in like 5 mins only thing i can think is its geting a currupt download wondering if anyone else has this problem???

i will try again later

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

Michael said:
think im cursed
i seem to have a problem with Auto update now i just loaded gameex up and updated like normal and it seems to want to update again on reload, i have let it run and its done 4 updates in like 5 mins only thing i can think is its geting a currupt download wondering if anyone else has this problem???
i will try again later

Yeah, I think it must be getting a corrupt a download for some reason. Can you check what version number it says you have.

It downloads it to here: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\AutoUpdate

Can you check that file?

Thanks,

Tom

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
Yeah, I think it must be getting a corrupt a download for some reason. Can you check what version number it says you have.
It downloads it to here: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\AutoUpdate
Can you check that file?
Thanks,
Tom

its version 6.14

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

Michael said:
its version 6.14

I think the download must be getting cached. Although it shoulnd't be.

What is the modified date of the file?

Are you using a proxy server? Who is your ISP?

Tom.

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
I think the download must be getting cached. Although it shoulnd't be.
What is the modified date of the file?
Are you using a proxy server? Who is your ISP?
Tom.

its got todays date , im using a router

isp is bulldog

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

Michael said:
its got todays date , im using a router
isp is bulldog

Can you check the time of the file.

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
Can you check the time of the file.

23 May 2006, 13:11:29 < thats the last modifyed time

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
Can you check the time of the file.

I think your ISP is caching it. Lets try and trick them into not doing that

Can you please replace hideos.exe with the attached and let me know if it fixed it.

Thanks a lot for your help.

http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/download/hideos.zip

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
I think your ISP is caching it. Lets try and trick them into not doing that
Can you please replace hideos.exe with the attached and let me know if it fixed it.
Thanks a lot for your help.
http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/download/hideos.zip

nope still wants to auto update again

also the C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\AutoUpdate files have changed modifyed time and access time to when i last ran update

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

Michael said:
nope still wants to auto update again

More than once?

You overwrote hideos.exe with the one attached?

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
More than once?
You overwrote hideos.exe with the one attached?

yes i over wrote the file with the one from the zip ran gameex let it run atuo update when it restarts i let it run the auto update and it loops

the file in the autoupdate folder still seems to be version 6.14

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

Michael said:
yes i over wrote the file with the one from the zip ran gameex let it run atuo update when it restarts i let it run the auto update and it loops
the file in the autoupdate folder still seems to be version 6.14

not quite sure whats happened but its working ok, now have version 6.16 i will let you know if it does it again

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

Michael said:
not quite sure whats happened but its working ok, now have version 6.16 i will let you know if it does it again

Thanks for your help Michael.

**Ricci** · May 23, 2006

TSpeirs said:
Thanks for your help Michael.

Thought it was just me!! Same thing happening..no matter whether I run the new version of GAMEEX or try to update, once launched, GAMEEX looks to update and just hangs, or says it has updated, but when launched again, seeks to update.

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

Ricci said:
Thought it was just me!! Same thing happening..no matter whether I run the new version of GAMEEX or try to update, once launched, GAMEEX looks to update and just hangs, or says it has updated, but when launched again, seeks to update.

Can you try the patch above.

**headkaze** · May 23, 2006

Tom: You can add "?xxx" to the end of a file to trick a server into thinking it's a new file and avoid the cached version.

Eg. http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/download/hideos.zip?1234

You could add the date/time or some random number to the end of the url to force it to download the new file. If that is what's happening here.

**Smiff** · May 23, 2006

the update system works fine for me, although it looks like its hung at stage 1/2 .. a progress indicator would be nice please Tom if you get time.

also interesting, that it's different from running an update from the installer - the language setting for example is kept (good!).

**Tom Speirs** · May 23, 2006

headkaze said:
Tom: You can add "?xxx" to the end of a file to trick a server into thinking it's a new file and avoid the cached version.
Eg. http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/download/hideos.zip?1234
You could add the date/time or some random number to the end of the url to force it to download the new file. If that is what's happening here.

Thanks but its already doing that. That's why its a bit odd .

**Michael** · May 23, 2006

Ricci said:
Thought it was just me!! Same thing happening..no matter whether I run the new version of GAMEEX or try to update, once launched, GAMEEX looks to update and just hangs, or says it has updated, but when launched again, seeks to update.

does take a while to update mine downloaded the update installed and re-loaded gameex and looped,

never hung though

**Michael** · May 25, 2006

Michael said:
think im cursed
i seem to have a problem with Auto update now i just loaded gameex up and updated like normal and it seems to want to update again on reload, i have let it run and its done 4 updates in like 5 mins only thing i can think is its geting a currupt download wondering if anyone else has this problem???
i will try again later

just to let you know that i just auto updated with no problems

thank a lot tom, keep up the great work

**Ricci** · May 25, 2006

Did the autoupdate, and Tom's suggestion, now everything is back to normal! Thanks Tom!

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