IMPORTANT! Existing Minkata Installations Require Update

[rarified]

Shorah all!

I found I've been behind the times. Minkata has not kept up to date with files from Cyan's MOULa server. That means it has been impossible for new users on Minkata to successfully start the game.

Existing users have been unaware of this problem because they already had the MOULa files copied into their Minkata installation folder and the server and your client matched.

I have had to update the files on Minkata to match those files on MOULa. Now, when Minkata is run from an existing installation, you will get an error during the patcher saying "File Not Found" or something similar. That means you will have to do the update below.

To update your existing Minkata installation to make it work again, FIRST make sure your MOULa installation is up to date. Run Uru Live and let the patcher update the files, go through the login dialogue. You can "Quit" when you get to choose an avatar. Next, open both your folder where you installed Minkata, and the folder containing the Cyan Uru Live installation. The latter is usually located somewhere like C:\Program Files (x86)\Uru Live.

Click on the "dat" folder in the Uru Live folder. Hold down the “ctrl” key and type “c”. Then go to the Minkata installation folder window and click on the window top strip so it becomes the current window. Hold down the “ctrl” key again and type “v”. It will start copying files, which is what you want. At some point, Windows will likely complain that there are already files with the same name being copied. Tell Windows to go ahead and copy these files.

That should be all you need to do. Start up Minkata and make sure you can log in. Look around and stay a while if you feel like it.

Thanks! Post replies if you have problems doing the update.

_R

[Update: changed from drag and drop of “dat” folder to keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste.]

[charura]

I get this error...



then this...



then the application shuts down.

[rarified]

That is exactly the symptom of having old files in your Minkata folder. Re-copy the “dat” folder from the Uru Live installation folder (see the top of this thread) to your Minkata folder, overwriting the existing dat folder.

_R

[charura]

I started URU Live (apparently to get the latest files) and then copied the dat file from the URU Live folder to the Minkata dat file folder.

I did get one message about overwriting and I said yes to overwrite said files.

Tried to start Minkata and it hangs for over 10 minutes here:

Nothing happens and I just cancel...

[rarified]

What time zone are you in? I don't see any connection to the server today, from any clients.

That would indicate some sort of networking problem. Are you running Windows Firewall? If so, does it permit UruExplorer.exe and UruLauncher.exe to make outbound connections to the internet?

_R

[charura]

I'm in EDT US and I have no Firewall and am able to access all other 'shards' as well as URU Live.

[rarified]

Can you go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ and find out your IP address?

There's a possibility my firewall configuration is blacklisting you. I'm fairly unforgiving about ISPs that host machines attempting to break into my network.

I'm looking at my firewall log now. Please let me know what your IP address is.

_R

[charura]

https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/173.239.199.127

I do use a VPN

[rarified]

Ok, I don't see you there. And from my end it looks like there may be a connectivity issue to your ISP.

One more thing to try. Can you open a command prompt and type the following command?

• tracert -4 foundry.openuru.org

and grab a screen shot of the output from the command prompt window?

Thanks.
_R

[charura]

my location without VPN:

https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/174.97.127.148