Game lobby will not sync after using development build

[Acidd_UK]

Hi,

I have found recently that if I test spring with a development build, when i change the spring.exe back to the 'valilla' build to play on the internet, the lobby refuses to sync me into games. I have to reinstall spring to fix this. Any ideas why? The mod files and spring.exe are definately vanilla and I cant see anythin gin the registry that would cause this...

[Acidd_UK]

Futher to this, it seems that simply reinstalling spring doesnt even fix this - I have to delete everything (except maps & mods) and reinstall... then it works.

This is a real pain in the bottom, please can someone shed some light on this?

[jcnossen]

Use two spring installs?

[Belmakor]

Use two spring installs?

That's what I do - I have my development build located in a completely different directory to the release, and I have no issues running one or the other.

[AF]

Mine are together with differently named spring executables and it's worked fine so far....

[Acidd_UK]

This is what I don't understand - for testing my work, I used a modified spring exe and a midified AA sdz mod. After testing, I replaced the spring exe with the original and the AA sdz with the original and it still wouldnt synce. I then reinstalled spring over the top of itself and installed a fresh copy of AA and it still woulodn't sync. Only by deleting everything except my maps folder and then reinstalling did I get it to work.

Using a second istall of spring for testing will probably work and I'll probably end up doing this, but it seems like a bit of a hack - I'd rather know what the real issue is...

[Tobi]

Maybe archivecache.txt is the issue? (because that's where checksums are cached that are used to test sync iirc)

You could try removing that file & restoring spring.exe & AA mod and see if it works then. (if you want to know the reason, that is )

[Acidd_UK]

That's exactly the sort of reply I was hoping for - I'll give this a try next time the problem occurs - thx.