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Title: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Jonnym on Friday, January 13, 2012, 06:39:10 AM
If you can think of anything that needs adding to this file post in this thread. Also can someone on the Sourceforge project add this to the aa25.org website for me? Link to location aa25.org/Data/readme.txt

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2.5 ASSIST README, HELP AND GENERAL DOCUMENTAION:
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COMMON PROBLEMS:

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PROBLEM: 'PUNKBUSTER SERVICE INITIALIZATION' I have Windows Vista or Windows 7 and when joining a game I get kicked back out again by punkbuster with the message Punkbuser service initialization error?

SOLUTION: When you first play on Vista or Win 7 you must run 2.5Assist "As Administrator" so that the game can load the punkbuster service. To do this right click on the 25Assist icon and click "run as administrator" then join a game and wait for it to say Punkbuster service successfully loaded, You may now go back to playing as normal.

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PROBLEM: 'PUNKBUSTER SERVICE COMMUNICATION' When join a server i get kick out again with error 'restriction: service communication failure: PnkBstrA.exe'

SOLUTION: Click on 'Fix PB' on the SITREP screen then click re-install services and then Test. This will solve your problem.
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PROBLEM: 'RUNTIME ERROR 7300, DOES NOT START'

SOLUTION: You MUST have the '25Assist Libs' folder in the same place as your '25Assist.exe', Unzip both the 25Assist.exe and the 25Assist Libs Folder and put them both on your desktop, Then run 25Assist.exe from the desktop.
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PROBLEM: 'SERVER PORTS' I am trying to run a server and I have opened the ports on my router but it still says the ports are closed?

SOLUTION: It is possible your router does not support NAT loopback, To work around this Click 'Options' and tick the disable port testing to external IP option. But this will mean you will not be able to join your own server from the server list. You will need to use the Join button on the server.
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PROBLEM: 'LOGGING IN ERROR, TIMEOUT' When i try and login i get timeout error waiting from responce from auth system.

SOLUTION: Login to battletracker.com, try changing your password first, goto 'my profile' - 'password', then try again. If this does not work also try changing your username 'my profile' - 'username' to something without any symbols in it. If this does not work try chaging your playername to something without symbols in it, goto 'my profile' then 'tracker settings' then change 'aa2 playername' makeing sure there are no spaces in the name. Also make sure you don't have a firewall or router that is blocking outgoing UDP connections.
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PROBLEM: 'UNAUTHORISED LOGIN' When joining a server i get kicked out for Unauthorised login attempt.

SOLUTION: You must not close assist or logout from assist after you have joined a server, closing down assist removes your authorisation to play from the system. If this is not the cause then try chaging your AA Playername by logging into Battletracker.com and goto 'my profile' then 'tracker settings' then change 'aa2 playername'
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PROBLEM: 'AUTHORIZATION SLOT CLOSED' I am getting kicked from servers for Authorization Slot Closed.

SOLUTION: The reason for this happening will be reported at the bottom of the assist window next to the donate button. This usually means that 2.5Assist is not running or has lost its connection to the master server, You must not close 2.5Assist while in a server because this is holding open your auth slot.
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PROBLEM: 'WRONG HONOR' I have played on a server after auth went down and now battletracker has recorded my honor as 15.

SOLUTION: Submit an honor claim on the AA25.org forums. Someone there should be able to restore your honor.
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PROBLEM: 'KICKED FOR FILE WHITELIST' I am getting kicked from servers for File Whitelist Violation.

SOLUTION: This means you have got file in your AA installtion that are not supposed to be there, You may have been messing with the files, copied a corrupted install or mixed up your 2.8.5 install with your 2.5 install, If you can't manually remove the offending files click Settings - Complete Re-Install to fix it.
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PROBLEM: Everything is completely messed Up!

SOLUTION: If something has gone horribly wrong, Click the Settings tab in assist and then click 'Reset and Repair AA'
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PROBLEM: KEEP GETTING KICKED FOR UNKNOWN WINDOWS API FUNCTION 131125

SOLUTION: People have reported that un-installing Bitdefender anti-virus solves this problem, That may also be other anti-virus packages that cause this error.
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PROBLEM: "..\..\..\..\Common\plugin.cpp; 7458 Failure condition; plugin Entrytable"

SOLUTION: Your 25Assist Libs folder is missing. The libs folder comes in the zip file with 25Assist.exe must be kept together.
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PROBLEM: Error setting display mode: CreateDevice failed (D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY)

SOLUTION: You do not have enough video memory to run AA with the current settings, Click on the Settings tab in assist and choose windowed or fullscreen mode and set a lower resolution like 800x600 or 1024x768 and turn down the graphics detail to low.
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PROBLEM: Cannot adjust brightness, gamma, contrast in-game

SOLUTION: If you are using Windows 8 select the 'Windows 8 Gamma' Option in the Assist Settings tab. If you are using XP,Vista or Win7 try choosing Fullscreen mode from the Assist Settings Tab.
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PROBLEM: Keep getting Windows - No Disk errors while playing.

SOLUTION: Your PC is looking for a USB device - e.g. a USB stick or a cell phone - that you've recently plugged in and have removed without using the "remove hardware safely" option in the right hand bottom corner of your screen. Put the last USB device you used back into the USB port and then use the "remove software safely" option.





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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
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QUESTION: Where the hell does assist store the game system files and all its data?

ANSWER MAC-OSX: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/25Assist/
ANSWER LINUX: /home/USERNAME/25Assist/
ANSWER WINDOWS XP: C:\Documents and settings\USERNAME\Application Data\25Assist\
ANSWER WINDOWS VISTA/7: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\25Assist\
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QUESTION: Can I change the location where assist stores the game and data files?

ANSWER: Yes, If you want assist to store its data somewhere else create a folder called '25Assist' in the same place as your 25Assist.exe (and 25Assist Libs) and it will see and use that folder instead of its usual one. You can also MOVE your exising 25Assist from the location mentioned above the the new location.
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QUESTION: How do I edit/delete bans on my server?

ANSWER: Bans are located in armyops/System/BanList.txt. A special note about bans, Punkbuster and AA25 auth system bans are only held in ram, HackHunter bans are written to the BanList.txt file.


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RUNNING SERVERS:
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QUESTION: How can I manually edit the server configuration file and load mods etc...

ANSWER: All the server side config files are located in the 'server' folder which is in the assist home folder(location listed above)
aa25srv.ini is the server ini file
aa-pbsv.cfg, bd-pbsv.cfg and ma-pbsv.cfg are the punkbuster config files for 'Normal AA', 'Border and Dusk' and 'mAAp' server running modes. It uses a slightly different PB config for all 3 modes.
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QUESTION: Where are the PunkBuster screenshots kept.

ANSWER: To view PB screenshots click the 'PBSS-Viewer' button on the server screen, If your prefer to view them manually they can be found in the Assist home folder (listed above) followed by /armyops/System/pb/svss/
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QUESTION: What about ACI Banlists and Streaming to ACI.

ANSWER: ACI Are no longer interested in supporting this game, We have had to build a new system, The Banlists are not longer loaded onto your server but are loaded into the Assist Master Server, When players gets banned they cannot join ANY AA25 servers or even login to Assist. PB Restrictions, Violations and AA25 Violations are all streamed to the Assist Master Server by default where everyone will be able to view them by right clicking on a players name in assist or from a link in Battletracker.
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QUESTION: Can I run 2 Assist servers on the same PC?

ANSWER: Yes you can run 2 servers on the same pc, But it is not easy, Heres how...
Stop any running server.
First create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive, lets say for example 'AA2'
Find your original 25assist folder in the following location...
Windows XP: C:\Documents and settings\USERNAME\Application Data\
Windows Vista/7: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\
Copy the 25Assist folder into your new 'AA2' folder.
Go into the 25Assist folder and Delete 'Settings.dat' (if you don't all your servers will crash each other).
Make a copy of 25Assist.exe and 25Assist Libs and put them in your new 'AA2' folder.
Now run the 25Assist.exe out of the new folder and you have a second installation.
You can do this a many times as you like, New folders called aa3, aa4 etc...



For further problems or support e-mail: [email protected]

Updated as of August 11th 2013 - Spanky
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Jared on Friday, January 13, 2012, 10:20:36 AM
What about how to change your username or make a noob account ;D
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Jonnym on Friday, January 13, 2012, 10:30:56 AM
What about how to change your username or make a noob account ;D

Go ahead, Post it here and I will add it to the file.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: BlueBlaster on Friday, January 13, 2012, 11:50:47 AM
I added a link to the readme on the Assist home page.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Friday, January 13, 2012, 12:53:19 PM
That's a really nice readme. Great layout and pretty much covered everything I could think of. Good job.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: uni-sol on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 12:19:10 PM
maybe it would be beneficial to state the system requirements?
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 15:18:00 PM
IMO:
2.6GHz Single-Core (Multiple-Cores aren't used by the engine)
1GB of System RAM
512MB DirectX 8 Capable GPU
DSL Internet Connection
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: BlueBlaster on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 17:52:05 PM
I'd consider that recommended sys requirements.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 18:06:28 PM
I'd consider that recommended sys requirements.

I tested several maps. AA used 520MB maximum by itself so a 512MB RAM requirement wouldn't be enough to comfortably run a OS AND AA at the same time. For a CPU, I'm running 3.87GHz and it still lags on Pipeline so I think 2.4-2.6GHz would be an accurate number for most maps. For video memory, I was using about 320MB so 256MB cards would definitely suffer and 320MB cards don't really exist anymore and 512MB cards are pretty common. There's even cheap $40 1GB cards out there. As far as dial-up... I think that's a given :)
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: BlueBlaster on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 18:13:55 PM
My 6600 GT has 128MB. I'm not going to say the sys requirments should be 128MB or something, but I get good performance on AA with this card. I get good performance on BF2 and Hitman Blood Money with this card as well. But this isn't a low-end card of the 6xxx series, it's a mid-range I believe. The CPU is the biggest performance issue with AA. So maybe we need to be a bit more specific on the type of GPU, there's a big performance difference between a series' low-end and mid-range cards.

Although I agree on 1GB RAM and 2.6GHz CPU.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 18:16:31 PM
You should pull up GPU-Z while you're playing the game and see how much video memory is being used. Should minimum requirements be what it takes to run the game on low?
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: BlueBlaster on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 18:25:03 PM
In this day and age, minimum requirements should be to run on normal with decals on low (projectors take too much cpu power). Althought I don't know how much of an impact on your FPS there is if you have the textures on low/normal/high. If you at least have a graphics card, your going to be getting better fps than people running on integrated.

Recommended should be to run the game with all the settings maxed (this doesn't have to include resolution. I max my settings but play on 1024x768).

I would consider my comp as running at minimum requirements. I'd say it's pretty fair to assume that.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 18:26:27 PM
Fair enough. Minimum to run @ normal settings, maximum to run at full. But, I think we should mention resolution. When I tested for my post above, I was running 1280x720.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: BlueBlaster on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 18:30:13 PM
The grandmaster of map testing seems to be AA3 Pipeline. So I guess we can base the requirements off that. I can run around at a few resolutions and give some stats. You want me to run around at normal settings then?
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 19:28:34 PM
Maybe we go all out and do recommended settings for low, medium and high. 60FPS w/vsync for a minimum.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Calevey on Monday, March 19, 2012, 14:01:56 PM
Once in a while people ask why training isn't working i.e. why doesn't it save your score, so this could be one thing to add to the read me / faq.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Sunday, June 17, 2012, 18:17:11 PM
Why the hell would I wanna download my AA to my C: drive? And Documents and Settings of all places! I barely have room there as it is!
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, June 17, 2012, 18:27:29 PM
Good job coming here just to rage about a free product which has a workaround for the problem you have.

It's not our fault you don't have enough space on your default program installation drive. Documents and Settings (lol at you using Windows XP) was used for permission reasons. Super easy to move the installation to whatever medium you want.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Possessed on Sunday, June 17, 2012, 21:42:05 PM
Good job coming here just to rage about a free product which has a workaround for the problem you have.

It's not our fault you don't have enough space on your default program installation drive. Documents and Settings (lol at you using Windows XP) was used for permission reasons. Super easy to move the installation to whatever medium you want.
tell us how to do, mister knowledgement :P
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, June 17, 2012, 21:59:43 PM
I'm not going to tell you how to do something which is outlined in 4 separate easily-found places.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 17:16:41 PM
For your information, I'm not using XP, but I read from the manual that that's where it's putting it. And I did see the workaround for it (make the appropriate folder in 25assist folder), but would it really be so hard to make the user select the folder they wish to use for installation as so many games do (granted most of them are not community built).

Anyway I wasn't even "raging" as you put it, not in my own mind at least, just stating my opinion. (Although looking at it now I do seem to have used too many exclamation marks)
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 17:20:14 PM
Assist isn't "installed" so the user can't select where the files go. I remember Jonny mentioning that the game files have to go there for permission reasons. "Documents and Settings" is for Windows XP, "Users/*username*/AppData/Roaming" is for Vista/7. Having the user select the default installation is another unnecessary step between downloading Assist and playing. It's easily changed for those that need it. I mean, if you have documents on another drive/partition, chances are good that you know how to move files and access the hidden folder Assist is in.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Possessed on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 18:58:02 PM
you can hardlink Assist Folder :)
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: H3llr3is3r on Friday, January 02, 2015, 16:56:39 PM
Wel i dont know about others rage or no rage but, for me Assist not found AA installed normally (not copied or saved from old windows installation) with 30 minutes before using Assist. Could not read any registry key, because AA runs fine, and could not tell him where it is located the installed game. Assist manual tells me there is a need next to assist.exe like 25assist folder and there should be the game folder but with not any name just what he accept it which is not told us. SO please come down from programmers heaven and fix the bullshit in your game. I saw more really garbage code-s which could do this and could not do many things. Yep after several runs over the manual still not works.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Friday, January 02, 2015, 17:00:29 PM
Wel i dont know about others rage or no rage but, for me Assist not found AA installed normally (not copied or saved from old windows installation) with 30 minutes before using Assist. Could not read any registry key, because AA runs fine, and could not tell him where it is located the installed game. Assist manual tells me there is a need next to assist.exe like 25assist folder and there should be the game folder but with not any name just what he accept it which is not told us. SO please come down from programmers heaven and fix the bullshit in your game. I saw more really garbage code-s which could do this and could not do many things. Yep after several runs over the manual still not works.
Can you come down from idiot heaven and fix the bullshit in your post so I can understand what you hope to achieve?
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: H3llr3is3r on Friday, January 02, 2015, 17:10:02 PM
No, as you are still higher. take a pill, install AA, like data partition\games\AA2
start Assist, game not found, find, pointing -> data partition\games\AA2 = game not found.

So what is my idiots heaven vs your programmers heaven?
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Friday, January 02, 2015, 17:26:47 PM
Don't install AA, let Assist install it. If you "FIND" the plain 2.5 AA install in Assist, there will be tons of updates that have to be done, you may as well let Assist download the whole thing.

Set Assist up like this:
X:\games\25Assist (empty folder where AA will be downloaded/installed)
X:\games\25Assist.exe (Assist exe)
X:\games\25Assist Libs (Assist libs folder)
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: H3llr3is3r on Friday, January 02, 2015, 17:34:30 PM
First, these things should be cleared/or asked. I am on 3G network as i have no option for other network connection and this free option cost me money. Game downloaded, installed, working.
Scanning should not be a problem (it is at the moment). Updates are smaller then the full game, so i could live with that one.

Which part you not got it? Special peoples with special problems.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: H3llr3is3r on Friday, January 02, 2015, 17:51:31 PM
Now it is even better, freezing during download. If i try 10 times he do 10 times the same, freezing the same point. Smart.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Friday, January 02, 2015, 18:02:57 PM
If I was as much of an asshole as you're being right now, I'd have you banned so that when you finally get the game installed and running, you couldn't play. You're coming to a forum asking for help but you're being insulting in your first post, what makes you think that will get you anywhere?

The FIND function does work, I've used it many times. It doesn't rely on registry entries, it simply copies the folder structure. There is quite a bit of updates, I would almost bet it doubles the installed size of AA. A lot of files are updated/overwritten so you'll have to download them again. Having a 3G connection will cause you more issues that are beyond our control. It also greatly depends on the SourceForge mirror you're connected to which we also don't have any control over.

When you set Assist up like this:
Set Assist up like this:
X:\games\25Assist (empty folder where AA will be downloaded/installed)
X:\games\25Assist.exe (Assist exe)
X:\games\25Assist Libs (Assist libs folder)
Does it ask you if you want to use that folder, when you open Assist? If so, close Assist and copy your AA2 into this folder:
X:\games\25Assist\armyops

See if that works.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Saturday, January 03, 2015, 06:31:40 AM
Hellreiser, your first post is simply uncomprehensible. I don't know whether you used google translate or something, but it doesn't make any sense.

I'm willing to bet most of your problems stem from your 3G network. At least here in Estonia neither the 3G nor 4G networks are too stable. That's probably the reason the downloads are failing.

If the download fails, you can cancel it and start Assist again. It will usually continue where it left off. It it doesn't, then press the "Reset + Repair AA" button on Assist's Install tab. Then it will download the missing pieces.

And if the 3G connection is the culprit, I'm afraid you won't have too stable a game experience either.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: H3llr3is3r on Saturday, January 03, 2015, 19:47:19 PM
I can tell you spanky i dont care if you ban me, this will change nothing on the fact that you`re an asshole. Yep bigger then me. You are also insulting, original manual does not contains that information that in "25Assist" folder the game folder must be named "armyops". I found out myself way before my third post. So i am insulting you because i found out that something is missing in your allround manual, and i dared to ask you in a style as you talk to others? Sure, go ahead and ban, this will not change on the fact how big asshole you are.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, January 03, 2015, 20:11:10 PM
You're just getting what you're giving, hopefully you'll look in a mirror and realize that.

The fact that the 'armyops' folder isn't mentioned in our 'manual' doesn't mean anything. You're the first user ever to ask about manually copying an existing vanilla 2.5 install into an Assist install because the 'FIND' function didn't work for you. You're the first out of thousands of users to want to know this information and you figured it out anyway. Why do we need to clog up the FAQ with information that won't apply to the majority of users?

I'm not going to ban you, I'm just getting my point across that you came here with a shitty attitude and demanded help, that's not a good way to get what you want.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Sunday, January 04, 2015, 04:02:47 AM
I can tell you spanky i dont care if you ban me, this will change nothing on the fact that you`re an asshole. Yep bigger then me. You are also insulting, original manual does not contains that information that in "25Assist" folder the game folder must be named "armyops". I found out myself way before my third post. So i am insulting you because i found out that something is missing in your allround manual, and i dared to ask you in a style as you talk to others? Sure, go ahead and ban, this will not change on the fact how big asshole you are.
Like he said himself, he only answered you with the same tone you asked the question in.

You have got to understand that since the US army dropped official support for this game more than 3 years ago, we are running this game from the kindness of our hearts. We're doing this as volunteer work. We don't get paid to do this. And this means not everything is always perfect. However, this also means you and hundreds of other people are still able to play AA 2.5.

Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: H3llr3is3r on Sunday, January 04, 2015, 17:05:27 PM
Then just to summarize my points:
-if you played this 3 years ago, you can have "vanilla" America`s Army install kit
-3 years ago i stopped at version 2.8.4
-by far that is not 2.5 and was usually installed in other folder then "armyops"
-before my first post i read some posts here (after reading the "readme") in the "readme" forum, which has given me the hint what tone i have to use
-at the moment for me still not works, yeah the update patch destroys the existing install as expected (no worries for this).
-most possibly not the "instability" of my internet connection is the problems source for update failure as i can do anything else without any major problem
- as i noticed before, using the find button could be more effective, in a way than creating the 25Assist folder with armyops subfolder
-no offense on armyops, but install kit can be downloaded from other places, and most nowadays programs has the flexibility
-changes can be also stored on existing settings.dat file, as anyway is created, and used for storage
-settings file is unencrypted, even without weakest possible encryption
-the download has no ability to continue, as a download manager, if needed wget is also a sourceforge project and supports retries and continue
-speed limiter also would be handy option on download as well as peer to peer connection options

As you can see i just noticed just a handful things about Assist, without calling someone asshole. Browsers support download managers from `98, other settings from even earlier.
Whatever connection you have, it is always good to don`t download twice what you can do once. Its a rule of really old times when bandwidth was a serious problem, and as nowadays still happens like connection instabilities.
Is it better now?

Second, in this world nothing is free, nor a server or more servers. Someone pays the bill.
When peoples behaves like a community, mostly you will not find some of them that whatever they did they are over the others. Disrespect is disrespect. As i read trough this pages, not really long pages, this is what i found, whoever wrote it, so i addressed him the same way.
That is all. At the moment this project is a dead weight and dropped, for me.
Good luck with it.

P.S.: Anyone who have good sense on IT, mostly will not use the default install drive for games. As written in the "readme", first you start the program as administrator to create some files. In the same way when you start first time the program could read install locations from registry. Some installers by default use the partition\games\ folder structure, i think with a reason. Operating system drives at least for Windows needs a lot of work space for the operating system, so should be not filled over 2/3 of the size.  After windows Vista recommended partition size for windows is 100 Gb, but not to fill with games. It is for windows, installed work programs, system recoveries, etc. This not changed with Windows 7 and 8 or 8.1. Remains the same with Windows 10. You can use smaller but nothing will be comparable with "Xp" anymore.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: Spanky on Sunday, January 04, 2015, 17:25:18 PM
Your English is difficult to understand and I think that's part of the problem.

Then just to summarize my points:
-if you played this 3 years ago, you can have "vanilla" America`s Army install kit
-3 years ago i stopped at version 2.8.4
-by far that is not 2.5 and was usually installed in other folder then "armyops"
You cannot use 2.8.x or any version other than 2.5 for the "FIND" function. Well, you can, but it will cause all kinds of problems (maybe that's why you've run into so many?) and Assist will have to re-download the whole game anyway.

-before my first post i read some posts here (after reading the "readme") in the "readme" forum, which has given me the hint what tone i have to use
-at the moment for me still not works, yeah the update patch destroys the existing install as expected (no worries for this).
I have no idea what you mean by this.

-most possibly not the "instability" of my internet connection is the problems source for update failure as i can do anything else without any major problem
Your internet may not be the problem, I agree. The problem could be the Sourceforge mirror you're connected to. There's been other users that have had issues downloading/updating.

- as i noticed before, using the find button could be more effective, in a way than creating the 25Assist folder with armyops subfolder
The "FIND" function in Assist has been around a long time and we have tested it, it works. It simply copies the contents of the folder over.

-no offense on armyops, but install kit can be downloaded from other places, and most nowadays programs has the flexibility
-changes can be also stored on existing settings.dat file, as anyway is created, and used for storage
I have no idea what you mean by this.

-settings file is unencrypted, even without weakest possible encryption
Why would it need to be encrypted?

-the download has no ability to continue, as a download manager, if needed wget is also a sourceforge project and supports retries and continue
-speed limiter also would be handy option on download as well as peer to peer connection options
Most of the updates are per-file and they happen very fast. They're usually under 10mb a piece, sometimes down to 1 or 2mb. Even on dial-up, there's no need to resume a download. To be fair, I do remember some updates, especially the first ones (if you're coming from a vanilla install), are pretty large. Again, this would be more of a problem with your internet connection and/or the Sourceforge mirror you're connected to. A speed limiter would be a good idea, as would P2P. Somebody has to code it though and adding P2P support would be a pretty big undertaking, something that isn't warranted for the small user base we have.

Second, in this world nothing is free, nor a server or more servers. Someone pays the bill.
When peoples behaves like a community, mostly you will not find some of them that whatever they did they are over the others. Disrespect is disrespect. As i read trough this pages, not really long pages, this is what i found, whoever wrote it, so i addressed him the same way.
The problem is, you addressed the whole community with a shitty attitude in your first post. You weren't directing it towards anyone specifically. You started with the bad attitude.


I'm not above helping you if you truly want it. In writing this post and thinking of a way to help you, I think one thing we should do is zip up the current Assist installation as a whole and host it for a single download on this site. That way people don't have to go through the headache of many updates from a vanilla install. H3llr3is3r, if that's something you would like, I will do it.
Title: Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Sunday, January 04, 2015, 17:44:20 PM
-no offense on armyops, but install kit can be downloaded from other places, and most nowadays programs has the flexibility
-changes can be also stored on existing settings.dat file, as anyway is created, and used for storage
I have no idea what you mean by this.
I think what he meant was the fact that you can get AA from other sources.

If that is what he meant, he is correct. However, he obviously doesn't know that Assist is the only way to play the game (AA2) against other actual people.