First off make sure you have another 20gb of free space on your hard drive otherwise you'll run out
Pre-Patch instructions:
These steps will significantly cut down on your patching time. Although it staill takes about 40-60 minutes to copy the Assets folder but that beats 6-300 hours of patching
- Copy your Vanguard Bin (Default Path: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\bin) folder to BinTest in the same folder so C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\binTest
Creating a test server shortcut:
- Copy your existing shortcut
- Modify the Target box and add /testserver so you have, excluding the brackets ({}): {"C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\LaunchPad\LaunchPad.exe" "/gamepatchpath:C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard" /game:vanguard /noregion /realm:live /testserver /noversioncheck}
- Save the modifications by clicking Apply
Patching:
This part still takes 1-2 hours. I can't wait to hear the complaints when update 1 goes live tomorrow
- Start the shortcut you created above
- Login as you would to live.
- Go make dinner, clean the house, raid the ice box for beer.
- Click play and enjoy the wonders of the test server
Using my scripts to aviod patching when switching to live and dev.
- download the attached zipfile
- Save the files to your vanguard directory (Default: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard)
- Modify your live shorcut to call C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\StartLive.vbs instead of Vanguard.exe.
- Modify your test server shorcut to call C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\StartTest.vbs instead of Vanguard.exe.
- Rename C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets to VGUIAssests.live
- Copy C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets.live to VGUIAssets.test