Common questions (Patreon)

I'm doing a lot of writing the same stuff to people these days, so here's some common questions. I'll try to update this as I flag new repeat questions :)

Questions addressed here:

- Do you have some readme, user guide or similar?
- My game is crashing, the console is showing a lot of errors, etc
- I'm getting Download Exceeded on Google Drive
- After downloading from Google Drive, I get told that the archive is corrupt
- Password protected archives

Do you have some readme, user guide or similar?

Yes, I do indeed, you may find it at https://betterrepack.com/install/ :)

My game is crashing, the console is showing a lot of errors, etc

This is nigh on impossible to troubleshoot with that little information, but here are some generic steps:

- Make sure the game is in a short directory tree, recommended paths are `C:\Illusion\<gamename>`, `D:\Illusion\<gamename>`, `E:\Illusion\<gamename>` etc... These games are super prone to random problems if they're in a long file path, not to mention mods.

This is due to a combination of factors... Windows has a limit on path names (though I believe Windows 10 and newer allow longer, very few apps actually does support any longer than the pre Windows 10 path limit of 255 characters... sounds like a lot, but it really isn't), the game does some trickery in order to make it read from folders where unity does not usually have them (abdata especially) adding a fair bit of length to the folder path behind the scenes.

If the path is longer than 255 characters to whatever file it wishes to access, the game will be unable to access it, thus leading to a lot of fun random errors which are nigh on impossible to troubleshoot.

- Make sure your GPU driver, and any other driver for that matter, is current.

If that fails and you find yourself in need of support, I highly recommend visiting the fan discord (Invite in the game launcher, look for the discord link in the lower left)

I'm getting Download Exceeded on Google Drive

Yeah, nothing much to do about that, it's not something I've set, it's just google being google. Recommend using Magnet/BitTorrent, unless you're on the $10 tier where Patreon mirrors are available.

After downloading from Google Drive, I get told that the archive is corrupt

Again, google being google. They tend to add some stuff to the filename that you need to clean up in order to extract:

(Credit to JD#7975 for improving upon my original description)

Password protected Archives

If you're downloading my archives from Baidu (China only), my password is `betterrepack` all lower case. 

If you're getting prompted for a password when downloading from anywhere else where I've uploaded, something is wrong, as I don't ever password protect my downloads, that just makes it harder for archival, so is against what I believe in, so gonna need a real good reason to do that. 

All my archives should load fine with 7zip 22.01 (or newer) or WinRAR 6.10 (or newer). Some lesser known archival software sometimes misread archives, and believe they are password protected, so do try one of the above if you experience that