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Windows / Re: Nightly Builds (Full Installer)

« on: September 29, 2013, 08:29:30 pm »

The huge wait is not due to the installer.  As it is a single huge file, your anti-virus scans the whole 1GB file which can take a good few minutes.  Blame your anti-virus program or your slow cpu / hard drive.

Which is precisely why this should not be an executable. 

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Windows / Re: Nightly Builds (Full Installer)

« on: September 29, 2013, 04:37:19 pm »

Twenty minutes?  Did you really say you have to wait twenty minutes for "any reaction" from the installer?   

That's ludicrous in my opinion.  Wait 20 minutes before deciding the computer is frozen?  Absurd.

Sorry, I think I'm done with this game.  The reviews looked good, and I was prepared to give it a good review as well if it worked but not with that kind of requirement.  Thank you for your help and your time.

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Windows / Re: Nightly Builds (Full Installer)

« on: September 29, 2013, 03:24:20 pm »

I have to try the nightly installer two or three times before it downloads the whole file. Which browser are you using?

Take your pick.  The last one I tried was with Chrome.  It failed after 20 minutes, I restarted and watched it.  After 2 hours it was up to 419 Mb (kept sending in bursts - send 2-3 Mb at 400mbs, then sit and do nothing for 15 minutes) so I went to bed.  Just checked now and it claims to have finished both the 2.4 and the nightly.  The 2.4 is 925 Mb and will not run.  Just locks up that window and has to be manually killed.  The "latest" build is 1.22 Gb and does exactly the same thing.

I've also tried it with Firefox and with IE (several versions of each) as well as Opera and UC - similar results, which convinces me the problem is not on my end, since the UC browser is the one on my phone and that d/l was done through 4g.

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Windows / Re: Nightly Builds (Full Installer)

« on: September 29, 2013, 02:48:02 am »

UfoAI 2.5.0 2012.11.03 (1351893478)
Full game only
W2k support (Windows 2000)
no Admin right needed to install or uninstall

ufoai-2.5-dev-1351893478-Debug-pentium-m-O1-sse2-7z-small-win32.exe
924MB
30d97b22b2b7a029c8629fa524acedb3
e261f562d87b2c04736a928689c179557e8ef628

My anti-virus really, really does not like that link.  Claims it's a "known infection source".

I tried it after getting repeated failures through Source Forge and all the other links I could find for the game.  Most are failing on the last block of the transfer, but a few (like the torrent) are failing much earlier.  The torrent downloads 722 Mb and claims it's done, most of the other links stop at 923 Mb and never complete, and all the descriptions I'm finding are saying the file should be approx 969 Mb. 

So, my question then is: Where can a newbie to the game actually get a working version, capable of being fully downloaded and installed?