Information on the v.81 Patch

**Oleo** · 02-16-2007, 15:02

Originally Posted by Kull

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that we won't be using Oleo's nice new UI cards in the v.81 Patch. The good news is that one of our talented artists ponied up a full set of them at the last minute (and they are already part of the current build).

Thats not bad news!

**ElectricEel** · 02-16-2007, 19:05

It'll be nice to be able to play the next release, now that I am on holiday.

**khelvan** · 02-16-2007, 19:46

I honestly don't know the release date target, but as all development is frozen and we are building the installer now, I can't imagine it will be too far off...

**Dooz** · 02-17-2007, 03:03

Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap. The installer is being built! That means the patch is ready and as soon as the installer is as well, we'll have 0.81 in our hands! Now, I don't know how building an installer works or anything, but I can't imagine it taking more than a few days. I will assume this weekend is going to be an EB weekend.

**abou** · 02-17-2007, 03:23

Probably a massive compile time though. Remember that 0.8 was over 1 GB and I imagine 0.81 is bigger; although the patch should be much smaller. So who knows?

**Kull** · 02-17-2007, 05:14

Originally Posted by abou

Probably a massive compile time though. Remember that 0.8 was over 1 GB and I imagine 0.81 is bigger; although the patch should be much smaller. So who knows?

We're actually testing out some preliminary installers right now. As to size, therother did a great job and turned a 200MB rar into a 70MB exe. We have a file or two to add and a bit more testing before we feel certain its ready. Testing is absolutely necessary, btw, as TA proved by finding an awful gaffe in the install file. But yes, we are definitely in the pre-release mode right now.

**Tyfus** · 02-17-2007, 10:10

Goody, goody axe handles!!!

**therother** · 02-18-2007, 23:48

Originally Posted by abou

Probably a massive compile time though. Remember that 0.8 was over 1 GB and I imagine 0.81 is bigger; although the patch should be much smaller. So who knows?

The patch took around 15 mins to compile/compress 6174 files totaling some 508MB, down to one 72MB file. The 0.81 full installer takes a bit longer to build, probably around an hour, although it has to compile 19765 files, which gobble up a whopping 1.22GB, down to single 362MB exe. The compression stage is the toughest part on the machine: it uses ~750MB of memory. Which is a lot IMHO. But I suppose it gets a tougher workout when running EB!