Right, I made a crude C# downloader that uses a different method than the official one (thanks to cmp for clarifying it wasn't what I thought it was
) I can't test wether that fixes the getting stuck problem or not since I can't reproduce it, but maybe some of you can!
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS- No guarantees on it working. I managed to download a working cRPG installation on one go at about the same speed as the official one manages to do it.
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Requires .NET framework 4.0 or newer. The official one is fine with older version, but I use a filesaving method that was only recently implemented. You can get it from
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851- Program needs to be in your Warband /Modules/ directory. It doesn't look for correct place to download to - it just creates a cRPG folder wherever it happens to be and downloads the crap to there.
- If you don't get an error before the "FINISHED"-text it probably downloaded stuff correctly. Next step is to run the official cRPG launcher in repair mode and see if it actually downloaded things correctly (and if it did, that will launch WSE)
- Unlike the official program, this one downloads directly to the mod folder and does not delete the files on a failure (or if you close the program). This means that if you got stuck to random files before and still do with this one, you might be able to get the whole installation by just trying multiple times. This, however, is not the goal of the program, but if it let's you get the game, you're welcome. Do report it though.
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Please report if this fixes the getting stuck problem so I'll (and more importantly: the devs will) know if this is a solution. If it gets stuck, please report the last line or two of text you got so I might be able to look into it.EDIT: 23rd of March 2012 fixed an error caused when trying to update an existing installation instead of downloading from scratch or just checking file validity. The address for the file also changed.
Get it from:
http://koti.kapsi.fi/elmokki/crpg/cRPG-unofficial.exeGive it a few seconds at start - it'll download the file list for updates without announcing doing that and it might take a moment. If it doesn't start spamming filenames and what's happening to them in a minute, something's wrong right away
If this doesn't work, I'll code a Java version and we'll see if it's C# related. If that doesn't work, well, it's probably your internets hating the program.