How to patch Universal Combat Gold using the Updater

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UCG has an Updater which checks the server for updates. If an update is found, it will download it for you, copy it to the game folder and run it.

The downloaded patch file will remain in the game folder.

If no patch is found - or if you already have the current version - the Updater will just quit.

Note that the Updater will ONLY download officially released patches.

If you want to re-download a patch e.g. if the same patch version was re-issued (e.g. due to mishap, missing files etc). Open up the SETTINGS.INI file (in the game runtime folder) in Notepad and edit the version= line to the previous version.

e.g.

If you updated to 1.00.02 and that same patch was re-issued. You need to delete the patch file (e.g. ucAWA_1.00.02.exe), then change version = 1.00.02 to version = 1.00.01. When you run Updater again, it will re-download the 1.00.02 patch.

NOTE: All e-commerce versions of the game, use various DRM based copy protection schemes. For this reason, each requires its own unique patch.

e.g. you cannot download the patch for a version of the game that uses Starforce ProActive (e.g. BMT Micro) for your TryMedia purchase (which uses their own ActiveMark DRM scheme). For this reason, each version of the game has a unique game Updater settings which will download the correct patch if available on our servers. When patches are released, they are released for all versions of the game.

So, if you go and [manually] download a StarForce patch version and install on your ActiveMark DRM version, you won't be able to run the game.