Interesting. The TotA problem has been mentioned on the Impulse forums since the Betas.

However, other than this issue (which may be due to an old bug in SDC), Impulse so far works great for me. I especially like the fact that I get much higher download rates than with SDC.

The OP says the 1.92 alpha is "a preview of some of the changes".

Hence I'm interpreting this to mean there are some other changes in v1.95. Not the Word of God, of course. It'd seem strange to change the version numbering for something that had no additional changes...

I just downloaded and installed Impulse and it works like a charm. I upgraded Dark Avatar and it even put a dedicated shortcut on my desktop for Dark Avatar. Now I have dedicated shortcuts for Gal Civ II, DA and ToTA.

I didn't get that strange toolbar at the bottom, everything works like it's supposed to on Vista Home Premium. My OS came already installed with my comp, if that makes any difference.

Anyway, Impulse looks cool, and seems to work correctly.

I'm not going to do anything with ToTA until the official patch release is available on Impulse.

I have the impression that the current plan is Impulse-only. I'm hoping that a) that plan changes, or we get a .zip as Mistralok suggests. I bought TA by spending my tokens through SDC. I should not be required to install yet another installer just to keep up with patches.

Thanks for the tip, worked perfectly!!

I should correct myself as it seems I pointed blame at the SDC incorrectly. I tested this out further, and seems to be related to the difference between what SDC and Impulse write to the registry, or I think more accurately, where Impulse is expecting TA to be.

I installed via SDC, DA and TA's registry do not contain a PATH string at all. The EXE strings respectively contain DarkAvatar\DALauncher.exe and Twilight\TALauncher.exe.

Now, in Impulse, DA reports an update to .103 instead of .100 in SDC. TA shows only as Available, even though it is installed in SDC. If I update DA in Impulse, then the PATH string is created in the registry for DA, and the EXE string is changed to just DALauncher.exe.

Installing TA via Impulse creates the PATH string, and modifies the EXE string to TALauncher.exe

This simply leads me to the conclusion that Impulse is expecting something different in the registry for TA than what it sees for DA.

Cheers,

James

I just found out the hard way IMPULSE is not XP64 compatable so after I uninstalled TOA it would not let me install it !!!!!! So now im reinstalling via sdc and it appears i will not be able to get the update at all To say the least I,m not happy

Okay, i've got Impulse 'installed'...
(PS; but, not after having to unload Kerio_Firewall from memory since ngen was running a loop of multiple notification Icons. On a smoothy XPro-SP3, btw. Must be a NET-Framework issue with some Vista underlayers not recognized on my old system, anyway!)

Looks nice.
Only prob' is - there is no such 1.95 update to Twilight on it! Weird.
May be it's the afore_mentioned issue with the registry settings untagged properly. Or, cuz i did install 1.92alpha already this saturday.

And, the DA section says an update IS available; another strange result though -- i DO have 1.80g.100 installed and working on my setup. Duh.

Both lines have the same version tag number also *1.80g.100*, it seems. Since, the underneath Icon interferes with the values shown i had to use a magnifier at 8x to distinguish both numbers.

So, lemme know when the detect flaw has been adressed and if we ever need get to D/L the 1.95 instance.

I would love to have 1.95 (and future versions) available as .zip files, if not on SDC. Being a primate who hasn't upgraded past 2000 Professional yet .. and I'm sure many haven't, I'm gonna be boned if that's not possible.

I second (or third?) the question.

Information about Impulse is still far too sketchy to make an informed decision about it. Terms of Service are nowhere to be found on the site. Plus, a requirement of Windows XP or Vista means that I'd need a new operating system just to patch a game.

SDC is perfectly able to handle ToA updates. I see no good reason to deprive SDC users from a patch for a product they bought and supported for years.

I just reinstalled Impulse yesterday due to it just sitting there with the "Downloading Impulse Update - Connecting" message up the entire time it was running. It still only showed TA as available and not installed so I tried the regedit solution. That didn't seem to work since TA still says Available and now it is back to sitting there with the downloading update message again. Seems I may not be getting the new update either. I'm starting to tire of having to reinstall this thing(this wasn't the first time) and then hand editing the registry to get things to work in it(a second time for that as well).

I want to be excited about Impulse, but right now I'll just have to wait till these issues are resolved before jumping in the deep end.

I just updated from SDC. Thanks again, Stardock. I know running two distribution systems must roughly double somebody's (Cari's?) effort for a routine task. Your kindness to change-resisters is much appreciated.

I don't see anything on SDC, maybe I'm doing something wrong ?!? I check for application updates and nothing.