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Sins Entrenchment Beta 3 Now Available

By Yarlen on February 20, 2009 7:23:00 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yarlen

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Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the release of Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment Beta 3!  Sins of a Solar Empire v1.14 is also now available.  The latest updates are now available for registered customers via Impulse (http://www.impulsedriven.com).

Please note that you must fully uninstall both Sins of a Solar Empire and Entrenchment for this build!  For more details and the latest changes, please see:

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/340287

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JDoe1013
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February 20, 2009 7:30:43 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Woot!

 

What do you mean by fully uninstall?

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CommanderAdama
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February 20, 2009 7:38:28 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

wow that's funny i just went on to check. woooh!

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Pompeii
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February 20, 2009 7:39:32 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I've been having a problem with the beta installation. Despite uninstalling Sins and Entrenchment from Impulse, and then removing the AppData and program file directories for the game, it does not work on install.

After installing the game on Impulse, I verified the Entrechment installation, and it said that the game was not installed properly. After downloading a 114k file, it said it was ready to play. But here's the interesting part - it doesn't work, and prompts me to uninstall the beta and Sins again. But the game does work before that "update" is installed. Despite that, the game verifies correctly after the update.

Any solution would be appreciated.

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ShadowMastiff2468
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February 20, 2009 7:41:38 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Like take it ALL OFF!!!!

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derbal213
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February 20, 2009 7:47:16 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I've been putting off purchasing Entrenchment, but now is the best time for me to buy it. If I buy it tonight, will I have access to the BETA?

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JDoe1013
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February 20, 2009 7:53:44 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting derbal213,
reply 5
I've been putting off purchasing Entrenchment, but now is the best time for me to buy it. If I buy it tonight, will I have access to the BETA?

Yes.

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derbal213
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February 20, 2009 7:59:19 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting JDoe1013,
reply 6

Quoting derbal213, reply 5I've been putting off purchasing Entrenchment, but now is the best time for me to buy it. If I buy it tonight, will I have access to the BETA?
Yes.

 

Thanks, mate.

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Blair Fraser
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February 20, 2009 9:12:49 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting Pompeii,
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I've been having a problem with the beta installation. Despite uninstalling Sins and Entrenchment from Impulse, and then removing the AppData and program file directories for the game, it does not work on install.

After installing the game on Impulse, I verified the Entrechment installation, and it said that the game was not installed properly. After downloading a 114k file, it said it was ready to play. But here's the interesting part - it doesn't work, and prompts me to uninstall the beta and Sins again. But the game does work before that "update" is installed. Despite that, the game verifies correctly after the update.

Any solution would be appreciated.

Make sure you don't have any custom maps in your galaxy folder after uninstalling (or any files in the sins directory actually).

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Pompeii
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February 20, 2009 9:28:48 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Alright, I've think I've figured out exactly what the problem is.

Before I installed Entrenchment, I made sure that both vanilla Sins and Entrenchment were completely removed from my computer. I uninstalled them from Impulse, and then removed the Stardock Games directory in Program Files(x86) from my computer. I also removed the AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\ directory.

The game (Entrenchment Beta 3) does install and run correctly. If I verify the installation however, Impulse will tell me that it is not installed correctly, and prompt me to update the game. When I do so, it downloads a 114kb file, causing Entrenchment to no longer work with an error message stating:

"Entrenchment has detected files from a previous beta installation. Please uninstall Sins and Entrechment via Impulse and reinstall both. This is a limitation from earlier betas and will not be an issue with the Entrenchment release."

I hope this information helps to resolve this problem.

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Mustang99
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February 20, 2009 9:34:17 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

As a friend of Pompeiis he convinced me to try and reproduce the problem (even after he did it twice) and to make a long story short..... it did

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Nakor
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February 20, 2009 11:10:54 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Don't try and verify the build. I had to do "things" to try and make it as happy as possible for people who had the previous betas and that's something that it's not happy with atm.

If you did run verify for some reason, run the sinsentrench_post2.exe file. It'll delete the 2 files that the EXE is keying on to see that you had uninstalled.

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Pompeii
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February 20, 2009 11:20:20 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Thanks for the prompt response. Its good to hear you already knew about the problem, and the program that you mentioned fixed it.

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Jrla21
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February 21, 2009 1:35:47 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Let me go get the torches and pitchforks out...LOL

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gambitraven
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February 21, 2009 4:25:44 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

cant seem to find my saved games or custom maps

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GrantWekesser
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February 21, 2009 5:03:57 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

How exactly is this beta better?

 

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Phalnax811
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February 21, 2009 5:23:59 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

There is a bug when you mouse over the raise bounty mini pirate box.  There is no box there since pirates are disabled but when you mouse over it, the raise bounty pop up box still appears.  prevents from clicking on anything that is there such as a planet.

Hope this can be addressed!

Thanks,

-Phalnax

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GrimFear
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February 21, 2009 7:22:15 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Well I was able to play this once, but now all I get is a black screen when I start it up now.

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Firefly2442
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February 22, 2009 12:15:01 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Does this mean I can install Sins regular and Sins Entrenchment and have them be separate?  I would like to play with a friend who only has the original.  I know you could do it "unofficially" before by copying the game but this way is a lot easier.

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Phalnax811
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February 22, 2009 4:32:27 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yeah it did it for me I believe....

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jaychase1972
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February 24, 2009 10:50:28 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Ok so I have to uninstall, redownload both programs again and hope this works.  The download on impulse is really SLOOOOWWWW!!  After waiting for ages I'm hoping it will install correctly and not crash compaired to my previous attempts.  I'm really losing my patience with these problems and soon will be an ex Stardock purchaser.

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