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Not installing Project Zomboid correctly | Locked | |
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Aug 10 2013 Anchor | ||
Hello. Launching it gave me an error message. After googling I eventually found out that I should try to download it from the Desura site instead of using the client. Downloading the game that way worked. What I noticed was that the file from the website was significantly bigger. I thought that this could be either due to a different compression alorithm or the version the client downloads being incomplete. What follows contains a lot of information that's probably only interesting for the developers. Skip to the conclusion in the end, if you're not interested in how I found those out. Today I took some time to actually have a closer look at the issue. Here's what I found out:
After looking at this I think that it boils down to a different compression algorithm, because the Windows versions are equally small in comparison. The next thing I looked at was Desura's build-in console. During the installation it gave me quite a few of those:
It's just time stamps, but there's more to it as I found out later. After that I compared a clean installation (just installed, never launched) of the game the client downloads and the 64bit version I downloaded myself. It turned out that there are some differences despite the version being the same.
This is just a very short part of the list. There're a lot of files missing in the version installed with the Desura client. Lastly I compared some of the files that differ by hand.
Turns out the files don't just differ, but are incomplete. Conclusion: My theory: Parsing errors. If the Desura client downloads the same versions you find on the website, it's during the extraction/installation. If the Desura client downloads the games from elsewhere, it's either during extraction/installation or earlier, during compression. I hope this helps you to fix this issue. Edited by: TheSniperFan |
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Oct 29 2013 Anchor | ||
Any chance you could give me a blow-by-blow on how to get it working properly? I too just bought my Project Zomboid on Desura (first game on Desura) and it will not launch. Using Ubuntu Linux. |
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Nov 1 2013 Anchor | ||
Go on Indiedb.com and log in. |
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