Maniaplanet 2 Update

[justanother1]

I'm gettin 173kbs, about a 2hour download from COX Cable .... might be your isp ......

[allolli]

BUT: why mandatory???

I think this was done to get as many players to the new runtime as fast as possible because of the server incompatibilities amongst versions. There are complaints about not being able to join some servers. If MP1 players may only play on MP1 servers and MP2 players on MP2 servers, then it is a good thing to get all players to MP2 as fast as possible.

However, I also think that making the update optional (while telling about server incompatibilites in advance) for wa week or two and then switching to mandatory with the next update would have been better.

[skalamanga]

Well in case anybody is wondering why their server won't start or is getting an error on start up. I solved the server issue. Apparently after you start the server and click join server Maniaplanet 2 opens and gives you the "cannot join server error unknown title". I've opened more ports than I care remember today so lets not go into that.

All I needed to do was change (and why I don't know)

ManiaPlanetServer.exe /game_settings=MatchSettings/Woteva.txt /dedicated _woteva_cfg.txt /title=TMCanyon

to

ManiaPlanetServer.exe /title=TMCanyon /game_settings=MatchSettings/Woteva.txt /dedicated _woteva_cfg.txt

Then at the start up screen drag the TM 2 window over and double click and or hold down left click it or whatever. Then the server was joinable. As usual with these arrors the fix is always something really simple. I've become so used to joining the server from start up that it never occured to me to just go into the game and check. Only thing is now I have to copy n paste and reconfigure the fast 4 files now. Grrrrrrrr.

On a positive note the game seems to have sped up. Loading times are significantly reduced and the gameplay seems to run a lot smoother even with textures on high. So to that.

This whole day has been very confusing but I learned a lot. After the initial shock of this morning I am feeling a lot happier with the changes. Roll on stunt mode

[Kaihen]

Since i tried and failed to download the update, the game don't launch, only got a black screen then back to desktop.
I tried to reinstall the game many times but still the same.
Some help is welcome..and needed^^.

[Nvizion]

Regarding what i was one about earlier with the lack of shadow, and everything seems brighter in version 2 compared to version 1 i now finally have the pictures to show, this after struggling with downgrading to version 1 again he,he..

Pictures:
Pic1_From version1 - Pic1_From version2
Pic2_From version1 - Pic1_From version2
Pic3_From version1 - Pic3_From version2

As you can see in this new version 2 brightness is raised it seems or lack of shadow(unsure), anyway hope i'm not the only one seeing this as i have the same gfx settings used in version 1 as i have in new version 2.

[om23]

something between these two outputs would be ok,
the darkness at mp1 is sometimes to strange for me.

[justanother1]

Still crash on Solo A01 .... full uninstall, full reinstall ???

http://www.filedropper.com/logcrash00811b3b_1 it's new .. check the time ...

Also crashed tryin Local Play .. single map ... one of mine ....

http://www.filedropper.com/logcrash00811b3c

[NKAc_Street]

When the update first installed the game wouldn't even run past the initial little window that comes up where you can select options. I did a full uninstall, then reinstalled from the original game file, then when I ran that it downloaded the new update and now it works. The only problem I have encountered in what I normally do is that the cars engine sound is not always present right away when a track starts.

[moo-whazzaa]

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[alan_ch]

I asked the quesion before:

1)How can you find the ROUNDS servers? In the older version you would see in the menu, if a server is Rounds or time Attack. Now there is nothing to see, you cannot filter to look for rounds servers....