Hi all. First post.

We are a whole bunch of flightsim junkies (IL-2 primarily), who sometimes love to race on the ground

We recently bought GTL on Steam, installed it, everything was going fine (mind you, we are more or less all GTL noobs).

Few days ago one of us (who already races on your servers) wrote something about Altbierbude on our forum, and here we came, downloading your autoupdater jewel.

It took over 24 hours for me, others were slower and are still d/loading, but in the end it finished and it installed everything, nearly 20Gb of data.

When I launched GTL and I connected to a friend who also had the whole thing just dloaded like me, there were many problems: stuttering audio, slow "slideshow" animations, but the worst was that I could only choose one car, but when I went driving the car was different!

It's like some index got corrupted...I'm sure there must be an easy solution.
I must tell you: yesterday, while we were downloading, we launched GTL.
Can this have screwed something up?

I really hope you can help us with your experience!

Greetings from me, Ripley, and from every wanna-be GTLers, at www.tuttovola.org

Hi Ripley and welcome to GREEN!

it's difficult to figure out what went wrong, but you could try some of the following:

- an installation guide can be found here: *klick*. The steam-version should be GTL 1.1 without starforce, so no need to patch to 1.1 and autoupdater->tweaks->GTL-patch.

- autoupdater and GTL should be started as admin (Win7 often makes problems with user rights)

- you can set user rights of the GTL-folder to "all"

- within autoupdater, you can klick "new installation"(? - "Neuinstallation" in german). This checks your installation and tries to correct errors.

- if you reinstall the game, keep your ABB-archive! No need to download all content again, just point the autoupdater to the respective folders.

Hope some of this helps
Georg

Thanks for replying Georg.

Steam installation was smooth and without problems, GTL version is already 1.1.0.0, no Starforce.

We didn't apply any kind of patch, just installed altbierbude autoupdater (and Python...), registered with our usernames, run autoupdater and let it download everything.
Some of us managed to open a TCP port and make it a bit quicker.

I'm still with XP, but my other buddies have Win7 and maybe some others even have Win8.

I'm the only user (admin) of my pc, without login or password at startup, and I've never had any kind of install problems.

Here's what I see when I launch GTL through Steam.
It's just the standard "Run as..." window.
It pops up even if I don't right click on gtl.exe file, I just say "Launch GT Legends" (sorry, but it's my first program I bought through the Steam platform).



"BESTIA\Ugo" is my pc's and my user names.
I unflag the "Proteggi (protect) il computer..." field and then GTL runs flawlessly.

The weird thing is that yesterday we were 4 or 5 persons, all with the same runtime problems! Lags, different cars selected...it was like our games were not in sync, but we all d/loaded the same big package.

Now I moved my GTL "altbierbude version" somewhere else (and informed the autoupdater of the new path) and reinstalled a cean GTL from Steam, at least I can play it!

I (we) keep on my HD the 20Gb packet downloaded yesterday, of course.

As you suggested, I've just relaunched the autoupdater and chose the "Commands -> Reinstallation" option. Now it's "Checking installation"...let's hope it won't take too long.

I'll keep you informed, and if others have other suggestions, please, keep them coming this way!!


Edit: after some minutes of "frozen" application, where I was thinking to kill it...
(click on image, I don't know why it shows like this)





...the standard download window suddenly popped-up (unfortunately I did not capture it) saying something like:
"The following file were found:
0 Kb to download
1.500Mb local files.
Do you want to install/download?"

I said yes, and now it's looking like this:
(click on image, I don't know why it shows like this)





And now this:





Looks like there was some work left to be done! Let's hope it will fix itself.

Bye from Italy!

Ok, yesterday I could finally try it, and it apparently works well!


Maybe an admin can move this thread in the relevant board (Altbierbude Autoupdate)?