Demise: Rise of the Ku'tan: Server version problem?

Server version problem?

Skiron
posted 12-30-2000 09:32 PM
I hads to reinstall Demise and did all patches in correct way, but now have an interesting problem. My Server "Demi's Dungeon" shows up on server list as 1.00r2
running version 1.35b. The 353 patch is installed and i can connect to other 1.00r3
servers no problem to play and other 353 version players can log on to Demi's and play. Has anyone seen this before? Also now the server tells me by name & number which monster group it is regenerating, which it never did till now.

Decklin
posted 01-01-2001 12:21 AM
I'll do a check, but I've been running a demo server and a full version server most of the year. I'm certain the server version did NOT change for the full version game, and I didn't notice any change after any of the patches ... maybe there were some minor ones?

Skiron
posted 01-03-2001 02:08 PM
Well, a little more feedback on problem. I think the problem was caused by using the automatic patch installers. Had a some items in store that when taken to a different server were unaligned when they should have been aligned, and vise versa. The server said
it was running 1.00r2 build 1.1.186 and when i played Demise I was running 1.00r3 patch353
. Anyway I reinstalled all patches manually
and things seem to be normal now. I can't see which monster group is being regenerated anymore by name, can only see it by number now. I wasted about 4 hrs on weekend trying to salvage my char files, and get it working.
What an exercise in frustration...

Decklin
posted 01-03-2001 08:34 PM
Well ... I did check, and I was wrong. The demo server version is the same as the original one you mentioned, but my full version (patched) server is now Server(1.00r3) build 1.1.191 ... did that happen with the latest patches, the dll and the data file? I don't know. Confused I am

Skiron
posted 01-11-2001 02:57 PM
I've been thinking about this a fair bit and even tried to recreate the whole problem. That didn't work. Originally I had installed
the whole game and patched it with the latest patch installers, and as mentioned earlier the server version seemed to stay prepatch, but the game was patched to 1.35b.
The server also showed 1.00r2 build 1.1.186
running version 1.35b. As i said i couldn't recreate the problem so I started thinking about it. I know i ran the server before installing the patches. Could it be that I
forgot to shut it down while patching (I always run it minimized) and it updated everything except the server executable file?
If that is what happened all I can say is DOH!!

I am pretty sure I had shut down the server as well before I patched, but not a 100% certain. As to the items showing up strange in store I checked into that a bit as well. Seems someone sold them to the store
like that. I do not know if they were changed as a result of the server version problems during the person connecting to my server so I am not going to take any action on it other than mentioning it here.

Skiron

*Skiron thinks he should check his windows more closely next time*

Dogg of Demise
posted 01-11-2001 03:51 PM
A lot of items were changed from r2 to r3.1 the r3.1 patch is suposta wipe the store and confinement but I have transfered store files from r2 to r3.1 and it causes some wierd things like wierd alinements and cursed items to appire in the store afterwards
PS the first time I patched my game stayed r2 also and I had to redo it