Technical Issue: Patch-Mixing

[Chazar]

I am on Xmas vacation away from home, and I just recalled that I updated my laptop to 2.15, while my MP-games a certainly still running under 2.14. I did not not bring my Dom2-CD along, so I cannot downgrade right now...

What issues should I expect playing with a 2.15 client at 2.14 hosted games? Any major disadvantages?

I am especially concerned since I am going to engage in a few underwater-battles in one game now. Were'nt some spells changed with respect to their underwater-castability?

[Alneyan]

I think the only problem will be bogus battle reports; only the Version of the host should matter for what is different between the two patches.

If you want to play it safe, I can send you the 2.14 exe however, which would allow you to play these games under 2.14.

[Chazar]

Thanks! I think I can live with some wrong batttle reports for the next two weeks, if that is really all that could go wrong...

...on the other hand, I would not mind if someone could send me the 2.14 i386 linux binary, preferrably compressed for the meager telephone connection that I have here...

[Alneyan]

The best I could do would be to send you the Linux files from my Dom 2 CD; I am using Windows here, so I don't have the Linux 2.14 exe.

Under bin_lin, I have two directories - ppc and x86 - with three files in total. In ppc, I have dom2 (no extension given under Windows); in the other there is a dom2 file, and dom2_nosdll.

Would any of these files be useful to you? All the files are a bit bigger than 2 mo, and the three of them can be compressed to 2 mo with RAR. You would still have to download the 2.14 Linux patch, however, as these files are either for 2.06 or 2.08.

[Oelfwine]

Quick question: is the 2.15 patch only for Linux? I downloaded it (I think from Cherry's site, since ShrapnelGames is blocked) and ran it but my Version # still says 2.14.

TIA

[Chazar]

@Alneyan: I have already made some turns now, and since no one else reported further troubles to expect within this thread, I will continue to use 2.15. Thanks for your offer of sending me the linux binary, but it does not seem necessary to squeeze the file through a slow teleph5ne connection...

@Oelfwine: AFAIK, the 2.15 is available for windows. There was some trouble with the linux Version being delayed...