Cataclysm dda no sound archive#
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Cataclysm dda no sound code#

Someone would also have to do them all over again each time we make a new release or when one of the component we use is updated or changed. Those processes are often time-consuming and ignored. We welcome anyone who wants to take the time to do it, but we believe it is mostly unproductive.

Many people are also asking why not simply report the launcher as a false positive to those antivirus products. This research is left as an exercise to the reader. Now, if you want see how deep the rabbit hole goes, you can keep on searching or speculating on why PyInstaller itself is commonly flagged as a threat. Our current best speculation is because we use a component called PyInstaller that is commonly flagged as a threat. We could also speculate on this for days on end. Unfortunatly, they are unlikely to respond for many good reasons. The best way to find out would be to ask those antivirus product developers. There has been many wild speculations to try to pinpoint the root cause for this. Many people are dying to know why antivirus products are identifying the launcher as a threat. We have a nice building guide for those who want to build the launcher from the source code.

Cataclysm dda no sound software#

There is little productive efforts we can do as software developers with these. You are still likely to get false positives.

Cataclysm dda no sound code#

If you are paranoid, you can always inspect the source code yourself and build the launcher from the source code. A simple workaround is to add the launcher binary in your antivirus whitelist or select the action to trust this binary when detected. Poor antivirus products are known to detect the launcher as a threat and block its execution or delete the launcher. My antivirus product detected the launcher as a threat. Those are the main 2 places where files are moved and where you should be able to find them. You can also check for files in your recycle bin. That is where you should be able to find your previous game version. If you think you lost files during an update, check out the previous_version subdirectory. With the default and recommended settings, the launcher will always move files instead of deleting them. The launcher goes to great lengths not to delete any file that could be important to you. I think the launcher just deleted my files.

Cataclysm dda no sound archive#

It will assume that mods that are included in the downloaded archive are the newest and latest version and it will keep those by comparing their unique ident value.

The launcher inspect what is in the previous_version directory and it copies the saves, the mods, the tilesets, the soundpacks and a bunch of others useful files from the previous_version directory that are missing from the downloaded archive to the real game directory.

The launcher extracts the downloaded archive in the game directory.

The launcher moves everything from the game directory in the previous_version subdirectory.

If the previous_version subdirectory exists, the launcher moves it in the recycle bin.

The launcher downloads the archive for the new version.

Is it stored in the previous_version directory inside your game directory.

Automatically updating the game while preserving the user modifications.

Detecting the game version and build number.

A Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead launcher with additional features.