Instant updates

[Centurion]

For beta version updating: I wish there was a way to update the beta version faster without soldat restarting and downloading newer updates and then restarting again. etc...

[EnEsCe]

But then Soldat.exe can't be overwritten.
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[-Major-]

But then Soldat.exe can't be overwritten.
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isn't it only the final soldat.exe that is important (if there are newer .dll, the latest ones could just be downloaded)?
I do not see how that would be an argument....

eitherway it's just a waste of time to fix that.

[SpiltCoffee]

isn't it only the final soldat.exe that is important (if there are newer .dll, the latest ones could just be downloaded)?

If you're changing things within the binary itself (most common - you rarely ever modify DLLs), then you need to close the process before overwriting it.

[-Major-]

isn't it only the final soldat.exe that is important (if there are newer .dll, the latest ones could just be downloaded)?

If you're changing things within the binary itself (most common - you rarely ever modify DLLs), then you need to close the process before overwriting it.

once yes... but I don't see the need to overwrite EVERY time, just download the latest patch and then restart, instead of download, restart, download, restart.

[SpiltCoffee]

isn't it only the final soldat.exe that is important (if there are newer .dll, the latest ones could just be downloaded)?

If you're changing things within the binary itself (most common - you rarely ever modify DLLs), then you need to close the process before overwriting it.

once yes... but I don't see the need to overwrite EVERY time, just download the latest patch and then restart, instead of download, restart, download, restart.

Ah, I get you now... that would be handy, you'd just make it so you leap between updates that need to occur (like, it's not just Soldat.exe being updated).

[zakath]

well you can do it so that the exe just contains the update code, and then have everything game code related in a dll. then you can download the dll and "restart" without actually restarting the exe.

[jrgp]

Does this need to apply to Linux? Under Linux you can edit/replace/move files that are open/running.