Yet Another UO Guide – The 411 on Patching
Terron here with yet another UO Guide. Today I'm gonna school you on patching. As usual, I'm writing this tutorial from a Windows XP with AoS standpoint. You may find patching to be different than I describe it either by color changes or errors I do not cover. I had to reinstall AoS to get some of these errors so they may not be exactly the same as yours (you may now laugh at my dedication :<) Apologies in advance but do your best, use your noggin and a little intuition. This tutorial is an over-elaborated and over-done overview of how to patch UO and its side-kicks so sit back, relax and enjoy MS Paint and notepad and their symphonic harmony.
Overview - Whats the hubbub, bub?
Short answer: It's a good idea. Updating keeps your client and experience free of (most) serious errors.
Long answer: Remember back in the Christmas of `04 when you got that sweet lil present from UOGamers:Hybrid and it contained what looked like a snow-something-or-nother and a scroll of mystery? Then, all excited like, you clicked on it and got ERROR?
Then you quietly cried because it was really the only thing you asked for, and you wanted to stop believing in Santa. You then went on an Ether and heroin binge and ended up losing your job, house, and wife.
Silly answer: Don't be one of those people that never patch and then come onto IRC asking really ignorant questions about their errors and programs in game as a result of not patching.. like the following:
As of this guide (12-26-2004), the latest versions are as follows:
Patching really shouldn't be hard; consider the idea that you're simply upgrading your client and all its helper files to the latest version supported by the server. Pretty uncomplicated huh? Well; if you play on OSI shards, it really _IS_ uncomplicated, however they have decided to not love us nonOSI users and have made things a bit difficult.
Tips, Tricks and Traps
Keep in mind the following in regards to patching:
The HOWTO for UO - noes :<
Start UO like you normally would, either by UO Gateway, Razor or otherwise. Examine your login box that holds your username and password for the line that shows your client version. If it doesn't show the latest version, you'd better update OR ELSE! If you don't know what the latest version is, its safe to patch anyway.. you're not going to break anything by patching on an updated client.
Uh ohh, guess I better patch! Patching UO is as easy as starting the normal UO client and letting it automatically update. For the sake of being thorough, I'll list both ways. The short way is to click Start, Programs, Ultima Online 2D, Ultima Online 2D.
The long way: Double click "My Computer" -> "C:" -> "Program Files" -> "Ultima Online". Keep in mind that your installation directory may be different either on a different harddrive or another directory. Once you've found it, double click "Client.exe"
Patching has begun, fiber optics are linking together, internets are buzzing with data, and your BitTorrent downloads start slowing down. There are two different versions of the patching program; your screen will look different depending on what version you have.. shown below are examples of both versions:
The second example is the newer of the two versions and actually has a huge window but I didn't want to have a big-o image in this guide so if you HAVE to see the whole thing click here
Now is a good time to call Grandma and thank her for the wonderful Christmas present or call your ex girlfriend and
ask her if she misses you. After a while you should check on the update process and see if its complete. Read the last few lines from the
patching utility. See if there are any errors. Chances are you will see an error, but if you don't, you can stop reading this portion of the
how-to and move on to the side-kicks below. The rest of you will probably have a screen that reads
Error applying patch
Error during session
Your client may not be the most recent version
Most of the time this is the error in the patch from
4.0.4_b2 to 4.0.4_t and is directly caused by UOGateway, Krrios and Razor modifying your login.cfg file.. which OSI's patch program detects
as a corrupted file and further refuses to patch until its been uncorrupted. To find out for sure, we need to examine the PATCHLOG file
located in the Ultima directory:
Once the file is opened (Notepad is a good file reader/editor for this), scroll to the very bottom
If yours reads something like mine with a bad login.cfg, you're in luck! Rename your login.cfg (right click and select rename) to login.cfg.old. Then download this file (Right click, save as) and save it in your Ultima directory as login.cfg; the same directory you found the PATCHLOG. Now try patching again. If you receieve no error this time, move onto the next sections with updating UO's sidekicks. If you did receieve an error, please re-read this section before asking questions.
The HOWTOs for the UO side-kicks
I thought about being incredibly detailed but changed my mind because I don't think the side-kicks need as much detail as the client itself. With the sidekicks, you simply download the latest version and install it: nothing else to do! However, it is just as important to update these programs as it is to update UO itself!
Howto - Updating UO AutoMap
UO Automap's main site is located at http://www.uoam.net and the version can be found by clicking "Help" and "About UOAM"
UOAM has a built-in autoupdater and actually will update itself for you but if you turned it off, the download section is located at http://uoam.net/uoam.html#downloads
Howto - Updating UO Gateway
UO Gateway's main site is located at http://uogateway.com/ and the version can be found by looking in the program's titlebar
The download section is located at http://www.uogateway.com/download.php?id=31
Howto - Updating Razor
Razor's main site is located at http://www.runuo.com/razor/ and the version can be found by looking in the program's titlebar
Razor has an auto-update feature to notify you when updates are ready but should you have turned it off, the download section is located at http://www.runuo.com/razor/download.php
Howto - Updating Krrios
Krrios's main site is located at http://www.runuo.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=13 and I have no idea how you tell what version is running.. sorry :< The download section can be found by looking for the top-most post which will contain a link to the latest install script