Steam/Retail version mismatch?

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Hi all, having a bit of a problem; myself and a friend own Trinity on Steam, while another friend (who we have played with previously) owns retail vanilla. Last night retail-friend reinstalled it and patched up to latest using the gamestop patcher thing as instructed, but when we went to play multiplayer, me and steam-friend selected regular sins obviously, but it told retail-friend that he didn't have the correct version. We all checked in the bottom right of the main menu and sure enough, his is 1.193 and ours is 1.195.

"No big deal" I thought, "we'll just download it manually"; but the weird thing is that there seems to be not a single mention of a version 1.195 anywhere on the internet, nor any mention of this problem. The Sins website claims the latest vanilla patch was 1.193 back in 2011; Steam has no product or client update logs for Trinity at all since release, and there are no patch notes for any 1.195, let alone a manual download.

Anyone have any idea what's going on, or how my friends and I can play Sins together again without retail-friend being forced to buy Trinity for the sake of 0.002 of a patch?

Thanks!

technical
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I just ran both Sins games from Gamestop and from Steam and they're both at v1.195 (fresh install).  Are you sure you guys aren't missing an update or something?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I have the same issue.  I have a CD retail copy, which I installed (after a previous install a while ago on a different physical machine which had an OS re-install anyway), then upgraded via Gamestop. I then bought a version through Steam so my niece and nephew could play multiplayer.  The versions are different, and I can't find v1.195 anywhere.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling via Gamestop, but it's still at v1.193.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Hm...one thing to note.  I have the original Sins of a Solar Empire CD, but when I bought it through Steam, it was the Trinity version.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting kenneth_chiu, reply 3
Hm...one thing to note. I have the original Sins of a Solar Empire CD, but when I bought it through Steam, it was the Trinity version.
End of kenneth_chiu's quote

Steam only carries the Trinity version. It also has the latest update Rebellion as well.