Test Server Tutorial

[Iendan]

Originally Posted by Fyrestrom

The estimated time of download is extremely innaccurate early in the download process. You would do best to just ignore it. This has been an issue since very early in Beta.

not only early in beta but even before it, EQ2 uses the same launching program (LaunchPad) and it has always had shitty estimated times, at the beginning you just ignore it, about 1/5th of the way thru you can probably trust it,but halving it may put you closer :P (how much it gets off depends alot on how big the download is, for small patches is goes over by a few minutes, when i first got into beta it estimated 60hrs at first and it was only 6-10) so ya, i normally just ignore the estimated time and look at the progress bar

[Venti]

Guys if you followed this tutorial and started crashing with today's patch delete your AssetsTest directory it will not be replaced. This mornings patch was supposed to wipe it by copying the whole thing instructions caused problems. BinTest is fine to leave alone as it is replaced with every test update.

Thanks go to Namdarie for the information that helped me resolve my crashes.

[Venti]

Changed to use the new shortcut arguements Namdarie wants used:

"C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\LaunchPad\LaunchPad.exe" "/gamepatchpath:C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard" /game:vanguard /noregion /realm:live /testserver /noversioncheck

[Venti]

If your using a 64 bit OS vista or XP you need to change that program file to program files (x86) in 2 places.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Station\LaunchPad\LaunchPad.exe" "/gamepatchpath:C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vanguard" /game:vanguard /noregion /realm:live /testserver /noversioncheck

[Greydog]

Methinks more folks would use TS if they didnt have to do all this

But I do appreciate the info

[Manga]

Where is the link to the file needed? I do not see it.