Mike_Brown
New member
Following a recent disk crash I have spent a good while re-installing TS2010 - not without difficulty, and not without considerable help from Forum members over the small matter of DX9, DX10 and DX11 (and a few other issues). This was followed by assistance from the Helpdesk to sort out rafts of built in content that appeared as faulty and/or with missing and/or faulty dependencies. The vast majority of these were sorted. However, it seems a good few remaining built-in assets still await updates.
I am now downloading extra assets from Download Station.
Oh dear!!!
On a quick count, approximately 40% of downloads are reported locally as faulty and/or with missing/and or faulty dependencies. Last week I downloaded 12 BR Classxxx assets and all but 2 were unusable for some reason or other.
The "faults" are almost all missing .tga files, unsupported meshes and something to do with binary conversion - the same faults also apply to the faulty dependencies. Missing dependencies really are missing, and cannot be found on DS, or if listed on DS, produce an error message about not finding a download URL.
TS2010 is hardly a new product, and I bought it on pre-release so I presume I got it as early as possible, and yes, these problems were rife in the early months. By now they should have been sorted. Recent experience, however, evidences little progress. I know there may be many content creators involved, and it may be difficult to police them, but surely something can be done about built in assets, and some way of flagging up assets not suitable for later editions ought to be included on CMP (and yes I do know about the compatibility facility in 2010). This would at least save the huge amounts of time taken to download from DS (which in this day and age is unbelievably slow) just to find that the asset(s) are unusable.
Mike
I am now downloading extra assets from Download Station.
Oh dear!!!
On a quick count, approximately 40% of downloads are reported locally as faulty and/or with missing/and or faulty dependencies. Last week I downloaded 12 BR Classxxx assets and all but 2 were unusable for some reason or other.
The "faults" are almost all missing .tga files, unsupported meshes and something to do with binary conversion - the same faults also apply to the faulty dependencies. Missing dependencies really are missing, and cannot be found on DS, or if listed on DS, produce an error message about not finding a download URL.
TS2010 is hardly a new product, and I bought it on pre-release so I presume I got it as early as possible, and yes, these problems were rife in the early months. By now they should have been sorted. Recent experience, however, evidences little progress. I know there may be many content creators involved, and it may be difficult to police them, but surely something can be done about built in assets, and some way of flagging up assets not suitable for later editions ought to be included on CMP (and yes I do know about the compatibility facility in 2010). This would at least save the huge amounts of time taken to download from DS (which in this day and age is unbelievably slow) just to find that the asset(s) are unusable.
Mike