Frequent Delta Patching Upgrades

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Frequent Delta Patching Upgrades

Post by Snake Man » 2013-05-31 08:40:57

Vietnam: The Experience frequent delta patching upgrades.

We have shifted our developing policy for 2013 to be more frequent releases in upgrade form as opposed of the old system of maybe one massive mega release per year. We do release FULL install like maybe once a month when enough changes to merit such big download is achieved.

These small frequent upgrades use delta patching so you only download the changed BYTES, not files, but actual bytes which makes the downloads 100% efficient and very small as you don't download any old data. The problem with this system is that it uses batch file to run xdelta3.exe which patches your VTE mod directory and if your windows is porked, if you run the .bat at wrong dir or have broken VTE install etc... it simply doesn't work.

The upgrades are incremental, meaning for your to upgrade into lets say "upgrade #5" you first have to upgrade into 1, 2, 3 and 4 before you can upgrade into 5. You cannot just jump into the latest upgrade available.

All the upgrades (except v1.5.25 which is just unpack and overwrite) use this method and readme included in the archive packet has the install instructions. If people run into problems running it and ask for help, this topic will be further updated with more detailed install instructions. Although dunno what we can say, the system works, if it doesn't then it means that its user error or their windows is somehow broken that it wont run .bat file correctly etc. We have been using this xdelta patching .bat file system since 2009 and so far have not found any problems with it. If it works for you, great, if it doesn't... then tough luck, fix your system or learn how to read install instructions, sorry to be blunt but that's the way things are.

If you are scared of these frequent upgrade installations or otherwise don't want to bother with them, you can wait and download the full release which is released "monthly" or whenever there is enough new data to merit such release.

Additional method to upgrade your VTE to latest version is to use Sickboy's Play withSix. However because of our frequent upgrade pace and possibility of Sickboy being busy doing his own things, the version in Play withSix might not be the latest. The latest can be always found in PMC Tactical forums and VTE homepage. Here is direct link for Play withSix: VTE page.
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