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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
So I got around to going back and playing sto on my Windows 7 today, quit out and the patcher finally patched the 2047mb thing, though the actual download was quite small. So I was wandering what happened to the 7 gigs that I downloaded on Vista yesterday, and found that the folder was 18 gigs, 26.5 including tribble. Apparently within E:\Program Files\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live there was another E:\Program Files\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live\Star Trek Online\Live that contained
->.patch
->piggs
->prepatch
-->piggs
totalling about 8.5 gigs.

Anyways, I'm assuming it's safe to assume that such assumptions are assumed to be true that this was what was originally downloaded before. Since they aren't the proper patches, that they'll never be used or deleted and hence should be manually deleted anyways. Though course the easiest way's just moving the folder and see if anything goes wrong, but seeing as how I wasn't the only one with that 11 gig patcher I'm assuming there's others out there with this 8.5 gigs just lying around.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    That is a side effect of you not having installed the game correctly (no InstallLocation registry key). A fix was issued yesterday afternoon, so you can indeed delete the extraneous folder.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Who installs games 3 times over these days, except for games that require a cd, or any games that isn't an mmo really, which I suppose isn't really the point :p. Anyways thanks for the reply, though I suppose it's easy enough to confuse the game client from the launcher.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    coderanger wrote:
    That is a side effect of you not having installed the game correctly (no InstallLocation registry key). A fix was issued yesterday afternoon, so you can indeed delete the extraneous folder.

    Excuse me, but both me and my boyfriend used the beta installer way back in open beta, on different systems, and lots of other people don't have that key. The issue here is your installer not installing the game properly, not people doing anything wrong.

    - Bek
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Bekkyboo wrote:
    Excuse me, but both me and my boyfriend used the beta installer way back in open beta, on different systems, and lots of other people don't have that key. The issue here is your installer not installing the game properly, not people doing anything wrong.

    - Bek

    Having any expectation of a beta product actually working properly through a live environment seems rather laughable. If your beta install for some reason isn't working correctly (e.g. you're missing registry values), the first thing any sane person would try is uninstalling the beta and installing a production release. That circumstance is hardly limited to Cryptic and if this is your first beta test, now you know.

    The issue here isn't that Cryptics installer isn't installing properly, the problem here is people attempting to bypass installing the production client by either using the beta client (and not reinstalling) or copying the game folders and calling it "installed".
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Legatus wrote:
    The issue here isn't that Cryptics installer isn't installing properly, the problem here is people attempting to bypass installing the production client by either using the beta client (and not reinstalling) or copying the game folders and calling it "installed".

    And if you had followed the forums since release, you'd have seen the dev posts saying the beta and live clients are exactly the same and there's no need to reinstall. Please don't try to be more obtuse than necessary.

    - Bek
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Just a note from a peer support perspective, I originally installed with the open beta client installation on my main machine and the STO registry settings are fine.

    There may be cases were people copied or moved the STO directory and didn't modify the registry to reflect the new location. They may have also copied the STO directory and files to a different PC but never installed the game (missing the registry settings).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Bekkyboo wrote:
    And if you had followed the forums since release, you'd have seen the dev posts saying the beta and live clients are exactly the same and there's no need to reinstall. Please don't try to be more obtuse than necessary.

    - Bek

    I've been here since closed beta, so apparently longer than you if you started in OB. The dev statements have said that it "should" work. Factually though, they've had to release quite a few minor patches to account for clients that weren't the same. A side from the fact that you may now have duplicate directories and a bloated install, it's not actually negativly impacting the game so your OB client IS functional.

    Regardless, I originally installed in CB and have migrated the install between computers including the registry settings (which includes the install directory) and don't have this issue. So my guess is that it comes down to effecting people who manually moved the content directory while unaware of the registry information. e.g. moving it from program files to the users folder, or copying it between comptuers to save the download time.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Legatus wrote:
    So my guess is that it comes down to effecting people who manually moved the content directory while unaware of the registry information. e.g. moving it from program files to the users folder, or copying it between comptuers to save the download time.

    Like I said, we both used the beta installer. meaning we didn't copy files from another place. You are free to guess all you like, but the fact remains that the Cryptic installer from beta didn't work 100%, and saying that everyone with this issue did a bungled file-copy install is not doing your intelligence any justice.

    - Bek
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    To be really litigious, the bug didn't actually prevent the game from working, it just means you downloaded prepatch data that would never be used :-)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Bekkyboo wrote:
    Like I said, we both used the beta installer. meaning we didn't copy files from another place. You are free to guess all you like, but the fact remains that the Cryptic installer from beta didn't work 100%, and saying that everyone with this issue did a bungled file-copy install is not doing your intelligence any justice.

    - Bek

    Ya...we're back to you using that BETA installer again I see. Did you fix your registry yet or are you still just complaining because you can?
    coderanger wrote:
    (no InstallLocation registry key).

    I believe that would be under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\Star Trek Online" incase you're still wondering.
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