But you see, how exactly do you avoid the game from updating every time? Steam wants to update the game no matter what! What are you supposed to do?
I have never been able to find that. Simply isn't there for me. Only thing I can do is that it doesn't auto update while steam is active. As soon as steam boots it'll update no matter what. Googled it and there used to be a solution but not anymore.
Oh, ok, well I have a backup and it isn't working plugging it back in. I get told my save is corrupted.It's about getting a chance to make backup of important stuff before it becomes too late
That's because you had already started the game with the new Data Pack. You need to insert the backup before starting the game for the first time after the update.
Still trying to understand exactly what it is that causes the problems. But I think primarily it's that the .exe changes and that a new CPK is added. Can anyone confirm that? But also, what I don't get is why the save data matters in all this and why we can't, in the end, just stay on a previous version of the game or recreate the conditions of the previous version. In short, I have no clue why this happens and I can't get one definitive answer from the community.
To allow my soundtracks to work correctly after DLC3.01 I was able to remove all music files from dt80_301E_x64.cpk without any knowingly lasting affects.
I wish I knew more about updates and how they mess with the game but from what I've read, your theory makes sense.
Well, it would work, but it's pretty pointless since it's much easier to simply remove the new data pack from DpFileList.bin.
So if you have your previous dpfilelist.bin, remove the last cpk, and have a backup of the folder containing the system and edit files, you should be able to run the game as though the update never happened, right?
What about playing online? if you didn't add the entry then the game would consider you to not be up to date thus would block playing online wouldn't it? I personally don't play online but just thinking about those that do.
Yes, that's correct.
You need the newest database to be able to play online, so there's no way around inserting the new data pack for online players.
Ah I see. Was just an idea really.
Ok, so that's what I need to do the moment that update comes out tomorrow.
It's normal exe address changed and evoswitcher needs to be updated.
They need to insert their changes into the new databases to make everything work again.
Sorry, another question (because I'm trying to learn...), inserting their changes means all the name edits and logos and so on right? Is that done via the import/export function in the game or can this also be done by backing up game files before another update happens? What files hold those team changes because I imagine the importing of so many leagues with the in-game function is probably very cumbersome.
They are using editors like this one to edit the internal database: https://www.evo-web.co.uk/threads/pc-dinotem-editor-19-version-1-6-0-0.79153/
Ok, so they have all their edits backed up and then they re-'import' their edits back in to what the update reverted to stock? Am I getting close?
