New Patch (v.3.06) For Dominions 3: The Awakening!

PhilD · #1 January 31st, 2007, 04:19 PM

Did the new patch change any versions of libraries it requires under Linux? I just patched, and the game won't launch anymore... (I, very stupidly, overwrote the previous files before testing anything; I could unzip the previous patch 3.04 again, but I'm not sure it won't break anything...)

PhilD · #2 January 31st, 2007, 04:37 PM

I'm not sure I understand what happened correctly, but if I do, I'm extremely unhappy: apparently patch 3.06 requires libc 2.4, as can be seen from this error message when I try to launch it:

dom3: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dom3)

I tried to look for it in the standard places for my Linux distribution (Ubuntu 6.06), and didn't find it - what seems to be the standard is libc 2.3.6, which is what I have.

Currently my dom3 won't run, and this is because Illwinter decided to use a brand new version of libc? What was so urgent with it?

PhilD · #3 January 31st, 2007, 04:49 PM

Update: I checked that patch 3.06 didn't patch any files that 3.04 didn't, and went back to 3.04. Now I can apparently play, but I won't be able to play correctly in my MP games if they go to 3.06, right?

thejeff · #4 January 31st, 2007, 04:58 PM

Upgrade to Edgy, it has glibc2.4.

Should be a pretty painless upgrade, from what I know of Ubuntu. It's been released for 3-4 months, so it should be stable.

PhilD · #5 January 31st, 2007, 05:06 PM

I'm not sure I like the idea of upgrading my distribution just because of this. I specifically selected 6.06 because it was the "long term support" version; I'm pretty sure there isn't much in the newest things that I need.

If I really have to upgrade my Linux distribution just because of Dom3, then I'll really be upset. I just checked the requirements on the original version, and it says libc >= 2.1.92. Whatever really required the change, I'm pretty curious.

okiN · #6 January 31st, 2007, 05:38 PM

Cheers. I'll check it out right away.

thejeff · #7 January 31st, 2007, 05:50 PM

Understood. I'm also curious what required it. If anything actually required it?

I personally wouldn't worry about the long term support, unless it was some critical server type machine. (Which probably wouldn't be running Dominions). But I like having the newest things.

On the other hand, it doesn't look like Debian unstable has libc 2.4, either. <rant> What were they thinking, requiring it!!</rant>

NTJedi · #8 January 31st, 2007, 06:08 PM

I saw a topic where cave provinces were listed as "junk"??
Are cave provinces still working or just not working for the DAWN map?