What causes that (harmless!) Steam Desync?

[thygrrr]

Does anyone here have a theory what might cause the Steam FA vs. Retail FA single beat desync at the start of games?

It's harmless, but it'd be cool if it went away.

[FunkOff]

Compare all the game files between two installs and or check the log?

[Kryo]

well something has to be different somewhere, but what is pretty hard to find out, isnt it?

[thygrrr]

*grmbl* Lazy bastards.

I'll diff it myself, then.

[thygrrr]

Any ideas?

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[Ze_PilOt]

Yuo should do a comparison between steam and 3603 install.

Then a file comparison between 3603 and our .faf.

It's should be a file missing.

[FunkOff]

Any ideas?

Obviously you should be comparing steam and non-steam installs of FA, including the individuals files in the .scd directories. Then see if any of those files listed is not in faforever.faf.

[thygrrr]

No, I'll attempt something to disprove that tonight.

I'll run FAsteam with an FAFbin directory that's from FAretail.

If I still get desyncs, then the issue is indeed in gamedata. If I don't, the issue is in the binaries (much easier to fix)

[Reddev32]

you can run fa and tell it to do a log to show on beat 1 where in fa that its pointing to.


effect is 1kb bigger in steam,
lua is 17kb bigger
units is 1k smaller

in steams bin folder is has a few extra files,

d3dx9_31.dll
game.dat
gpgcore.dll
gpggal.dll
LuaPlus_1081.dll
MohoEngine.dll
SHW32d.DLL
SupremeCommander.exe < steam fa exe

the rest look normal

[Reddev32]

so that why it keeps desyncing?