Whats the order of update? DL -> DA -> TA? or just download the TA update?

Stupid Failpulse.  Wish there was a Direct download... 

I just updated in the order it gave me. Just update whatever Impule tells you to update, and follow the directions. If it requires uninstalling previous versions or restarting, it will tell you.

Yeah but the update page doesn't give me an order, it has all 3 stating they need an update.

Does anyone know how to get at the newly updated manual? I've the 2.0-updated versions of all three (DL, DA and Twilight)?

I just did it. I didn't pay attention to order. I don't think it matters.

Well I hope it doesn't make me reinstall, 12-20 hours of downloading doesn't suit me well.

They do it because they realize this is the nature of the consumer beast.  People who spend their hard-earned money on anything will find something to complain about, even if they get exactly what they want.  The developers, however, are consumers as much as they are vendors, and as such, are never satisfied with the finished product either.  How many updates have occurred because we heard Brad say, "I still want more"?

For those people who are still apprehensive about Impulse, I would like to say that I have an older Dell (2nd generation XPS) and was very resistant to installing Impulse because I did NOT like the results I had with Steam when I tried it.  However, I eventually gave in, and have had no issues with Impulse at all.  For me, it works as well as SDC did.

You'll probably have to doanload the complete version of TA. I don't know how long it will take, because I don't know how slow your connection is.

If they allowed signatures on this forum, that would be my current sig . . .

That's what I love about Stardock and other indie developers. And why I'm gonna send them my resume when I finish my CS degree. Dunno if I'll make it into their gaming section (my college doesn't exactly do a lot of game stuff), but I'll be happy if I can work on some of their desktop applications.

I'm a very stubborn person, and being forced to change from my routine of doing something by way throws my easily sparked temper.

Also to everybody saying Impulse works perfectly, computers are very tempermental things, what would work for a thousand computers could still screw up on someone elses, every computer has their own little quirks, and automaticly dismissing someone because it worked fine on you and your friends computer doesn't prove that theres no problem. I myself have alot of problems with impulse, with stuff like low download speeds, general slowness and etc. 

Also to me, it just sound like stardock are being a bit of a hypocrit they make all this fuss about how awesome they are for not having drm, when they force people to logon to something to get updates, it feels suspiciously like DRM, sure it may not limit installs, but logging on to get patches is the exact thing spore requires. Wait... spore doesn't require you to log in to get patches, they have manual downloads for patches!

I dunno, I guess I'm just stubborn.

It would be nice if I could just request a manual download, like say:

"Hey would you mind giving me a manual download, Ive had alot of issues with impulse and would rather just download an EXE and patch it that way."

Also luckily I managed to get the latest patch downloaded and installed without any reinstalls, knowing my temper I'd probably uninstall the game and not touch it ever again if it did that.

I didn't say that we were going to put 2.0 on Stardock Central; we don't have anyone to spare for the extra code it would require.  I haven't looked into making any alternate arrangements yet.

Two things:

1. Any word on when the Arnorian ship style will be made available?
2. I, too, was apprehensive about SDC and Impulse, being a former Steam veteran myself.  Impulse is to Steam like light, fluffy clouds are to an iron ball & chain.  They're similar concepts, except Impulse doesn't clobber your system.

Ah, I misunderstood you. Sorry.

Anyway. Today I needed a break from a game I was playing (basically an AI profoundly whopped my behind), and I decided to give Impulse a try. I do have a skeleton XP installation on my PC (it's a multiboot system), I just never use it and I had to install some basic tolls to get it going. Unfortunately, as I feared, the process took more than five hours - partly due to my own inexperience with XP, XP insisting on continuously wanting to restart my machine, and some not very obvious functions in Impulse.

Suggestions for Impulse developers: The orb looks like a graphical embellishment, *not* like something clickable. It would help new users immensely if there was an alternative way to reach the preferences dialogue.

I also had to download GalCiv2 twice since Impulse insists on using the C: drive instead of Windows' temp directory. Since I have a multiboot system, my C: drives are relatively small, everything that isn't specific to one OS takes place elsewhere. Therefore my TEMP and TMP directories point to different drives, and most software (archivers, installers) automatically use those. Impulse doesn't, it simply defaults to the C: drive. I suggest letting it default to the respective system directories instead.

Also, Impulse doesn't seem to check whether there's enough space to download and extract a program before it starts a process. On my C drive, I had about 1.2 GB free space. This was enough to download GalCiv2 (slightly above 1 GB), but obviously not enough to extract and install it on the some drive, which Impulse tried to do. I suggest to check for sufficient drive space (for download, extraction and installation) before starting the download.

Finally, the second download could have been prevented if Impulse copied the downloaded file over when changing folder locations.

Anyway, after fiddling aroundwith it for some hours I now have GalCiv2 plus the two expansions installed, and can access it with Win2k. One problem persists though: When I start TA, two error messages pop up, infoming me that GC2 and DA can't be found and may need to be reinstalled. It's not a showstopper since I can play the game, despite the warning, all content from GC2 and DA is present and accessible. It's just a bit annoying. What can i do to prevent these error popups?

Not sure if i understood this statement as it should but on my part, the Impulse default installation location of updates is pulled off the registry settings (made upon initial process) **OR** within the folder path we can define straight into an option of Impulse .

My gaming Drive is G: and they detected that fact since it was clearly declared in the usual Impulse options (as it was also in SDC, btw).

There are some temp files (mostly variable on someone's Win_User account structure) and any auto-backup archives which DO get installed in the C:...Impulse folder though.

I'm confused on how to get 2.0. Impulse does not show an update for me and shows 1.9 or whatever installed but not 2.0 and won't give me the option to get version 2.0. And yes I have the full game to twilight of the arnor.

What do I do?

Perhaps try some of your own advice. Of course I guess everything is peachy since you can get the update, and I guess the universe does revolve around you. Why should anyone care about people who can't get Impulse? These are legitimate complaints coming from people who spent the same amount of money you did for the same game, and since they may be using Linux or a pre-XP machine are unable to get the update. I fail to see how their choice of operating system makes them or their money somehow inferior to you or your money to the point of upsetting your overly baked sense of decency.

Do everyone a favor, STFU and go play the game. You're doing everyone that doesn't have the update a disservice because we simply want what you already have. I'm sure we'd rather be playing the update than asking Stardock to help us play the update.