{"id":936,"date":"2005-10-11T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-11T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T02:37:45","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/936\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting against the Darkness Rising installer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I WISH I could write something about the game. But the fact is that I’m still here trying to make it run and despite I probably won’t have the nasty hardware issues that others are facing (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To begin with, the installation was confusing (beside having a pixelated splash screen with an ugly figure<\/a> resembling to an evil version of Firiona Vie and reminding me that EverQuest I do not want to play). Firstly it asks me to locate my “Catacombs” install directory. Then it pretends to install itself somewhere else arbitrary. Why? Wasn’t this a “patch” to apply on the old client? And then when I try to install it somewhere else it tells me it needs at least 13 GIGABYTES<\/a>! What the hell! I downloaded an installer that was 830Mb and now it asks me 13 gigabytes free (while DAoC’s client is barely above 3 Gb)? And what the fuck does it have to do with all that space?<\/p>\n

So I go shuffling my files and delete old, unplayed games taking lots of space like The Sims 2 but then it still doesn’t want to install itself in the new directory I pointed it because, apparently, the installer cannot tell the difference between “DAoC” and “DAoC2”. Finally, after solving all these quirks, it starts to do its work. A *long* work which consists of copying the files ALREADY ON MY HD from the first directory to the second, plus adding the new files in the patch I downloaded. All time (and space) wasted for a simplistic operation that could have been done in a few minutes.<\/p>\n

Finally, the result: the expansion is taking 600Mb on my Hard Disk<\/a>. With the files uncompressed. No, really. 230Mb LESS than the installer and 12.4Gb less than the space it asked me to free.<\/p>\n

Obviously, as I tried to connect, there was already a 13Mb patch waiting for me.<\/p>\n

I also wonder if WoW’s 1.8 patch<\/a> has more interesting new features then the whole DAoC expansion. Surely it was easier to install.<\/p>\n

Now I go play (I hope).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I WISH I could write something about the game. But the fact is that I’m still here trying to make it run and despite I probably won’t have the nasty hardware issues that others are facing (here, here and here). To begin with, the installation was confusing (beside having a pixelated splash screen with an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-daoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}