Some minor issues with the Minkata installation instructions

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dgelessus
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Some minor issues with the Minkata installation instructions

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I was installing Minkata on a new machine and noticed some minor issues with the Download page and the instructions there. None of these are major issues - I was able to get Minkata set up regardless - but for new users it would be helpful to fix the instructions.
  • The page is missing some styling (on Firefox 75.0). According to the browser console, this is a "mixed content" issue - the stylesheet in question comes from an HTTP URL, but the rest of the page is served over HTTPS, so Firefox refuses to load the stylesheet over an insecure connection for security reasons. This has already caused warnings for a long time (yellow triangle on the HTTPS lock icon in the address bar); apparently Firefox is now starting to block this entirely.
  • Step 1 of the installation instructions instructs you to copy the avi, dat and sfx folders from an existing MOULa install. This is not enough to run the launcher (as instructed in step 3) - you also need to copy over msvcr71.dll and msvcp71.dll, otherwise the Minkata UruLauncher.exe will fail to start due to those DLLs being missing.
  • The note at the bottom of the page instructs you to run PhysX_Setup.exe, but Minkata now also downloads an MSI PhysX installer. Last time I checked the MSI installer was newer, so perhaps the instructions should say to run that installer instead. Or has the PhysX_Setup.exe been updated since? (In that case it might be a good idea to remove the MSI installer again so there's no confusion.)
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Re: Some minor issues with the Minkata installation instructions

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dgelessus wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:56 pm(In that case it might be a good idea to remove the MSI installer again so there's no confusion.)
Bad idea.The PhysX_Setup.exe needs to be updated to include this MSI if it has not. The client assumes PhysX_Setup.exe is available and correct.
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Re: Some minor issues with the Minkata installation instructions

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The MOUL-style installer .EXE and the .MSI are both from the current PhysX Legacy installer source. Either would work, the .EXE is there in case the launcher tries to automagically invoke it.

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