No asset cache for me ?

[theriatis]

<p>Hi,</p><p>just a little bit of background:</p><p>I bought and installed DoV. I had some problems with it (using an old launcher) so i decided to give the new onea try (downloaded it from here: <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_Full_setup.exe">http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_Full_setup.exe</a>&nbsp<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.</p><p>Someone told me that the old *.pak based system will be outdated in the Future and in some time no longer supported, so i deinstalled EQ2, rebooted, saved my ini and UI Files, cleaned the rest of the Installation in every Directory i could find (even the hidden ones), cleaned the Registry, rebooted again and installed it.</p><p>Aaaaaand... it downloaded the Paks.</p><p>Ok, i converted them with the pakconvert.exe to assetcaches and started the game. It ran wonderful. After a good nights raid i shut down the PC... only to start it up next day and... it tried to download the paks again. (Luckily i saved them on my backupdisk).</p><p>So. What am i doing wrong ? Is there any hidden Registry Setting which i missed where its stating "He only gets Paks !! No Asset Cache for him !!)</p><p>Regards, theriatis.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>The Full version of our LaunchPad 3 uses the PAK/VPK file structure by design.</p><p>Only the streaming iteration uses the asset_cache folder.</p>

[theriatis]

<p>Hi,</p><p>thanks ! Now off to smacking some guildmates for the wrong Information and the double-work i had... <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Shall we just upgrade to the Launchpad 3 (even if its the Pak based one) or shall we go directly to the streaming launcher, which uses the assets ? (Just want to make sure that i wasn't fed more wrong Information as i was told that the Pak System will not be supported in the Future).</p><p>Regards, theriatis.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>theriatis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hi,</p><p>thanks ! Now off to smacking some guildmates for the wrong Information and the double-work i had... <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Shall we just upgrade to the Launchpad 3 (even if its the Pak based one) or shall we go directly to the streaming launcher, which uses the assets ? (Just want to make sure that i wasn't fed more wrong Information as i was told that the Pak System will not be supported in the Future).</p><p>Regards, theriatis.</p></blockquote><p>Station Launcher will not be supported in the near future and it uses the PAK/VPK file structure.  The PAK/VPK file structure itself is not something we'll end support on since our current and supported LaunchPad 3 uses it as well (in the Full version).  The asset_cache folder is essentially the same exact file structure, but for the purpose of streaming it packages all of these PAK/VPK files in to 2-3GB sets so that the patcher can lock it and continue to stream to it while you play without having to lock and unlock hundreds of files on a very rapid basis in order to stream to them.</p><p>In short, don't worry about the file structure.  We haven't changed it.  We only modified it to work with a streaming client and to streamline how the assets are loaded, locked, and written to because of it.</p>