Hi, I followed the instructions to run 1.4 and even though I placed the boot windows file in the boot folder, and ran Moviestorm, it didn't download and upgrade anything.
Now when I press New Movie, all the options are gone except the blank move and tutorial.
How can I fix this to run 1.4?
Open Moviestorm but don't start it. Go to the 1.4 instruction page and click on #5 "Grant License to Spareheads"
Moviestorm started updating after I did that.
I have the same problem. The spareheads are there, but no patch was installed and it still says V1.3... I made a copy and tried to install over that.
I'm running on Windows 7 (64 bits), 8GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce GT320, Core i3 CPU @2.93GHz.
V1.3 has been working perfectly on this config.
Same problem, I copied Boot,win to the new boot directory, but it didnt overwrite the old one, so I still get old 1.3. If I try to re write it, it shows its already there, BUT If I look for it with explorer it doesn't show. a rights issue maybe?
When you start moviestorm do not go to launch, leave it on the startup (login) screen, when I updated it took a few moments for it to start, but all went well after that.
I think KV is correct. Moviestorm can sometimes take up to a minute to contact our servers and register the presence of a new patch. Fire up the Launcher, and wait patiently until Moviestorm notices the patch. It'll start downloading automatically. Wait for the updates to install, make sure you've got a licence for SpareHeads, and then restart Moviestorm.
Hopefully that'll fix the problem. There's nobody in at Moviestorm Towers right now, but if you're still having problems cleverer heads than mine will deal with it tomorrow morning (UK time).
It might be that the boot-win.properties was not replaced.
It seems to be tricky at least on Vista (and probably Windows 7) to replace that file due to the user permissions.
It did fail on me, too, as I still have the old boot-win.properties file there despite of downloading the new one to the boot folder - it wasn't replaced.
I did get a download of something, which stated it was finished before, but still got old MS.
An now I tried waiting 20 minutes, but it's the same.
I think it's the Vista Thing Mysery Egypt says above I think.
I'll just wait a day till the brain trust figures it out.
Let me know if you need help with the workaround or have questions.
Of course, now it is updating and I'll be able to play around at long last!
Grr! Stupid Windows and its stupid virtual folders!
Vista and Windows 7 users are going to have some problems overwriting the boot file. We should have thought of that, but didn't. mystery_egypt's proposed fix is a good one, so I'd recommend following those additional steps if you're running Vista or W7.
We'll look at this in more detail tomorrow and see if we can come up with a more robust solution. Either way, this will only be a problem for the early access release - when we release 1.4 Final the moviestorm updater will take care of file overwriting automatically.
Bigtime kudos to mystery_egypt for spotting the problem and posting a fix.
Pull the slider all the way down to "Never notify"
You may be prompted to restart your computer for the changes to take affect, but when you have done that no longer will windows annoy you with endless questions and you should not be restricted on over writing files when you need to.
What I did was run the program as 'admistrator' then let the 'logon' screen sit for a few minutes. It finally started the update.
I don't think I will upgrade to Windows 7 (Vista I would never upgrade too) until Microsoft officially make XP dead or something I need requires 7 as minimum spec..
I have WINDOWS 7 and got no problem wahtsoever making the update, but at first i thought i did.
I made everything that was in the instructions and then i fired up Moviestorm 1.3. But nothing happened, so i closed Moviestorm and open it again. After about 30 seconds it started the update. The only time i got worried was when in the middle of the update it gave me an error. It was related to the Aftter dark pack. it gave me an error saying it couldnÂ´t find the jar...i hit continue and forgot to write the complete error message, sorry.
But at least itÂ´s working...and my old work project seems to be working with no problems. Fot now, everything fine. Thanks Shortfuze it seems a big jump forward. i will be posting my feedback in two days.
Update. I did get that file copied and 1.4 working on my Vista system, by temporarily disabling UAC.
Having problems installing this on windows 7 the update keeps failing at different points. The first couple of times it resumed next time I started. This time it hasn't resumed and I don't think things are installed correctly because the character screen is just grey.
Since you're on Windows 7, I'd recommend you to run Notepad as admin, locate and open the boot file, and replace that certain line. Then save.
It has worked for Jsted62 who was in a similar situation as you.