See towards the end of this thread for a workaround.  It is a bit of fiddling around but it means you should be able to get each patch for less than 100 MB (maybe 60-80) rather than 2 GB every patch.

Best regards,
Steven.

puntarenas, I have heard that they have located the point of problem and that a impluse dev will have the issue added to their to do list.

and I also am having the 2.2gb downloads UNLESS I click on the blue button , then REMOVE the tick from show pre-release/beta, then 'SHIFT' right mouse click on elemental, then left mouse click on verify installation, download AND install the ~40mb update back to 1.09e, then click on the blue button and tick show beta's, THEN update to the latest beta patch( typically ~45mb), and the 2gb downloads take me approx 5 HOURS to download, so if I can avoid it I will.

harpo

Thats rather strange. It tells me 2gb size but when it gets down to  the actual download size its 50ish mb give or take. Are people actually seeing 2gb downloads when they update or are they seeing the reported size and assuming its that big. Or am i just special?

The problem is still there with subversion 'v'

yes the machine I am testing the beta's on IS a win7 64 bit, perhaps it's actual cause IS a impulse on 64 bit issue.

harpo

nope having the issue with xp 32bit with x too..

will try downloading and see if it stops at 50mb..

vaul, sounds like stardock needs some help from you to help locate the bug, I hope that kris emails you asking for you to help track the problem down

harpo

Impulse Win7-x64 drives me nuts. 

Again I wasn't able to get the small 40MB patch from 1.09u to 1.09w no matter what. After several Shift-RightClick-Verify attempts Impulse at least was able to downgrade to 1.09e with a small 40mb download, but for installation of 1.09w Impulse insisted on a 2gb file transfer.

I was thinking of uninstalling and restoring from an archive (which works for me now after I did a "download and archive" instead of "Install" and afterwards "Archive Application" btw). Before that I wanted to check if there was a new Impulse Beta availiable and therefore activated "Show Pre-Release (Alpha/Beta) Versions" in the global preferences. To my surprise Impulse offered me the small 40mb patch to 1.09w Beta instead of the 2gb download afterwards.

Strange, but seems it makes some diference where you activate the "show pre-release versions" inside of Impulse.

my personal sequence on one of my win7 64bit systems is

1 start impulse

2 check for updates

3 then see new patch for elemental is out

4 then test the update to the new patch, if size during download is over 50mb , cancel,

5 click on blue stardock button, then remove the tick from 'show pre-release software'

6 hold down shift key on keyboard while right mouse clicking on elemental, then left click on verify installation in the rightclick menu

7 when instaltion has verified as wrong and offers a update to latest release(not beta) typically 40mb

8 install update

9 after update is installed click on blue stardock button and tick 'show pre-release software'

10 impulse shows update to latest beta

11 download and install update (typically 40-50mb)

12 close impulse

13 start elemental create a new game with my custom sov & race on megamap (with a modified special line to 0 so that resources WILL spawn) and each of the ten factions at different levels, but the world at normal, then play until crash (or in theory win but has not happened yet)

14 post about the crash & upload the zip with all the my games/elemental folders other than maps & screenshots & dxdiags

15 depending upon time of day either load elemental again and load save game OR if late & tired go to bed

harpo

i log on now to the 1.1 update (which i am happy for) but another 2gb download!!.. i cannot believe this has not been fixed yet!!

I had ver. 1.09w and update size to 1.1 was 1.41gb, but impulse downloaded only ~9 mb and thats it.