I'm downloading via SDC right now. It's still taking awhile.

Ok i had this problem and it is down to where Impulse installs the files. I found mine in My docs/my games. All you need to do is track down the file (starts with stardock) and move it into the programs file on your main drive. This will return all the files to their correct location and the game will start

I looked in this file, I had no files in My Docs/My Games/ labled Stardock or anything close to it. Just the normal DA folder with the saved games.

re: #5 I'm having the same problem. Glad to hear canceling and starting over does the trick!

For the purposes of not having to traverse Stardock's forums, I'll repost the solution to getting Dark Avatar updated properly in Impulse.

To make sure the 1.80g.103 Dark Avatar update works properly, go to this registry key:

hkey_local_machine\software\stardock\drengin.net\galciv2\darkavatar

Change the "exe" value to "DALaunch.exe"

Change the "Path" value to the FULL location of where Dark Avatar is installed on your PC. For most, I suspect it will be "C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar"

If you do this, then perform the Impulse Dark Avatar update (from 1.80g.102 to 1.80g.103), it will take a split second to update. If you leave the registry hack as I descibe in my post a while ago, Impulse will think it is not installed, download the entire game again, and install it in the main GalCiv2 folder, really screwing things up.

After this, follow CariElf's instructions for uninstalling the beta for Twilight. The uninstall process via Impulse will remove the beta registry keys, so the 1.9 install will go smoothly.

Good luck,

-HM

I'm confused. Earlier today, I downloaded TA from SDC. I had followed Cari's advice and uninstalled the beta first and removed its vestiges. I used SDC to make sure everything else was up-to-date. When TA came out, I downloaded it without problem. DA shows up as 1.80g.100 (dated today) with no later update available. TA shows as 1.90.018 (dated today) with no later update available.

I then thought I'd try Impulse. Under Updates, the only thing it's showing is a Dark Avatar update from 1.80g.100 to 1.80g.103 (dated yesterday). Under My Games, it's showing GC2 (installed), DA (needs yesterday's 103 update even though SDC has 100 from today), and TA (available, even though it's installed and I'm playing it).

Do I try to update DA to 103 via Impulse and hope that changes the status of TA to Installed? Or do I go through a similar process to what Hollow Man noted in Reply #10, above?

If an application only has the zz change in version number xx.yy.zz, then it's considered moot. But I did it anyway, and that's where I discovered the issue.

Franco, how did you install your Dark Avatar to begin with? Mine was done quite a while ago using SDC, and because it was done it that way, the proper registry keys were not in place for Impulse to see it. And that's why I ran into this issue.

-HM

Look above in my reply #10.

-HM

Ok got it, worked a treat

Thanks Hollow Man

Hmm, Twilight is still shown as available instead of Installed even with updated Impulse. If I tell it to start the download will it recognise if it's installed, or will it install it all over again?

Obviously this is not desirable. I guess what I'm asking is if Impulse will be fixed so it recognises Twilight as installed without me having to mess in my registry, as a future update may mess it up again.