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OLD NEWS! Get UOAssist specific update
information on the Updates page.
May 27, 2004
May 12, 2004
April 21, 2004
March 18, 2004
March 15, 2004
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Posted a test UOAssist.dll. It adds extra
registration key slots to bring the total up to 22 slots now.
That is the max that would fit on the dialog and still be small enough
to for those running 640x480 screen resolution.
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If no problems are found for a couple of days it will
be posted as a normal release for all.
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Also note that this change requires updates to
language files. So if you are using a language other than English
you still won't see the extra slots until the updated language files
are posted. Those updates will be posted when this new
uoassist.dll is posted as a regular release.
March 13, 2004
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The main download server had a, still to be
determined, hardware failure. Until that machine has been fixed
downloads have been routed to a different server. It is possible
that some people will continue to have trouble until their DNS servers
get the IP address of the new machine. This problem should not
affect the automatic updater as it automatically tries a backup server
if there is trouble getting updates from the main server. Only
downloads from the website directly should have been
troublesome.
Feb 5, 2004
Jan 31, 2004
Jan 28, 2004
Jan 9, 2004
Dec 8, 2003
Dec 4, 2003
Oct 15, 2003 (2nd post)
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Internet outages - A number of people noticed that
they could not connect to Tugsoft's website or update server last
night so here is information on what has been going on.
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This past Sunday night our ISP loaded new software on
their router that Tugsoft has its connection on. Since that time
the connection has been failing for short periods of time (1 or 2
minutes at a time, was ever 3 or 4 hours now it seems around every 1
1/2 hours).
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About 10:30 (MST) last night the connection went dead
again. But this time it stayed down until around 4:30 (MST) this
morning. This problem turned out not to be related to the
problems that have been happening since the ISP's router software
update. The ISP has explained it was a problem at the telco
(telephone company that owns the physical lines).
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What is happening now - Tonight (or tomorrow morning
early if you prefer) around 2am MST our ISP is going to go back to the
router software version they were using before in hopes of getting rid
of the short outages that have been happening since upgrading.
They estimate less than 5 minutes of down time. The long outage
that happened this morning should not happen again.
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Sorry for and trouble or stress this might have caused
anyone.
Oct 15, 2003
Oct 4, 2003
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A few users emailed about having trouble with using
target relative to chop on trees. It turned out that publish 20
servers have a change in them that mostly broke the feature (still
worked on exact same type of trees). Changes in UOAssist have
been made to over come this problem. Because of the needed
changes (reading map data) the target relative feature will now work
with fishing, mining and tree chopping again. Mining may
actually work better with this updated target relative version.
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A test file has been posted with the updated target
relative. If you fish, mine or chop on trees using target
relative and are having problem get it and try it out.
Sept 30, 2003
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A couple of problems were found and corrected
(UOAssist.exe and UpdateAce.dll). The problem is the last
updateace.dll contained a bad bug that causes it to crash when
updating files that were 'in use' during the update process. Which
means it can't update UOAssist.exe without crashing.
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What you'll see is an Unhandled Exception Error (GPF/crash)
in file UAP??.tmp after the download occurs and you hit continue.
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Here are 3 methods that can be used to update
manually. Pick the one that you feel most comfortable doing.
- Method 1 (easy if you know Windows Explorer): After
receiving the error about a unhandled exception in UA???.tmp use
Windows Explorer and go do your UOAssist directory (default is
c:\program files\UOAssist). Under that you should see a
download directory. Copy the UOAssist.exe file that is in
the download directory to your UOAssist directory.
- Method 2 Manually download UOAssist.exe
and put it in your UOAssist directory (default location is
c:\program files\uoassist).
- Method 3 Uninstall UOAssist by choosing the shortcut
Start | Programs | UOAssist | UOAssist - uninstall. You will
be asked if you want to remove settings (default is to remove all
settings). Make sure you switch the option to 'None -
leave all settings' or all of your macros and settings will be
removed. Then download UOAssist.exe
and run it and it will reinstall with updated files that don't
crash during updates.
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Sorry for the trouble. The bug has been fixed so
the next update to UOAssist.exe can be done automatically again.
Sept 23, 2003
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A new UOAssist.exe and UOAssist.dll have been
posted. More information is available on the Updates
page.
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NOTE: If you are getting an error about a
missing or corrupt UpdateAce.dll you need to manually download UOAssist.exe
and save it over your current version (the default location is
c:\program files\uoassist).
Sept 15, 2003 - 2nd post
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A resource bug (causes potion problems, use item type
problems ...) has found finally. Hopefully this will fix the
problem that people have been having for a while. About an hour
ago was the first success in over a month of attempts to reproduce the
problem.
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If you keep
items used in macros (including built-in macros like drink heal) in
your 'main' pack and have trouble with those macros not working get
the latest test update. It should fix your problem. After
you get the update make sure you count resources and that should get
you back on track again.
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The problem that was found only concerns items that
were in your main pack (not sub packs) when you logged into the game.
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To get test releases like that click the settings
button at the bottom right of UOAssist's update/news page. Then
set UOAssist to check for test releases. After doing that you'll
have to restart UOAssist. When a test release is available an
extra button will appear that allows you to download it if you wish.
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If you regularly had the resource problem and this
fixes the problem (or doesn't) please email uoassist@tugsoft.com
so it can be determined if the problem is truely fixed with this test
release or not.
Sept 15, 2003
Aug 27, 2003
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A new Test UOAssist.dll
has been posted. It fixes the Bag of Sending trouble when
resources are counted.
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To get the test file you must download it (link above
OR press the settings button on the update/news page and set the
updater to check for test files and then restart). If you
manually download the file using the link above save it into your
UOAssist directory (default is c:\program files\uoassist).
Aug 26, 2003
Aug 22, 2003
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A test UOAssist.dll
has been posted. A number of people have reported problems with
resource tracking/usage. Meaning macros with use item type,
target type, built in macros that use resources like bandage self,
drink potion ... or features dealing with resources (like the
organizer agent) are not functioning correctly. After extensive
attempts to reproduce the problem it still has not happened
here. However a couple of 'new' packet types have been coded for
in case somehow they were causing the problem.
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If you are having the problems described above make
sure you count resources. If you have done that a bunch and the
problem keeps coming back please download the test file and see if it
helps. Please report your results pro or con. If it
doesn't help the most helpful thing would be if you could find a way
to reproduce the problem reliably and send the steps so it can be
tried here.
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To get the test file you must download it (link above
OR press the settings button on the update/news page and set the
updater to check for test files and then restart). If you
manually download the file using the link above save it into your
UOAssist directory (default is c:\program files\uoassist).
July 31, 2003
June 20, 2003
June 6, 2003
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The UOASpeed beta server has been shut down. On
March 31st OSI emailed a list of concerns about UOASpeed to which a
response to each was made. Since it had been so long since a
reply to the concerns was made with no reply from OSI a little over a
week ago another message was sent to OSI asking about the
status. The response from OSI was the answer still was no
which was surprising since they never sent a message stating that
before. Another message was sent to OSI asking why they decided
on no but they have not responded for a week so the beta server has
been shutdown.
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So it boils down to this. OSI has rejected
UOASpeed approval. I do not have details on why they came to
that decision so if you'd like to find out you'll need to contact OSI
directly.
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The good news is OSI has made some changes that do
help modem users (and others as well). But even with those
changes UOASpeed still benefited a number of the beta testers (there
were also a few that it did not benefit). A big sorry goes out
to those modem users that had dreams of a little less 'lag' in UO.
May 29, 2003
May 21, 2003
April 22, 2003
April 17, 2003
March 21, 2003
March 13, 2003
March 4, 2003
March 2, 2003
March 1, 2003
Feb 25, 2003
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Non-english users: If you are having trouble
with UOAssist not displaying good descriptions of items know that this
is being worked on. If you'd like you can try this test UOAssist.dll
(save it over your current UOAssist.dll which by default is at
c:\program files\uoassist). That should fix the problem but
you'll need to get UOAssist to 'reload' descriptions where there are
problems. Like on the Arm dialog, clear the setting and reset
it. That should fix it up for you.
Feb 20, 2003
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A new version of UOAssist.dll has been posted.
More details on the Updates page.
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New language modules for Chinese, German, Korean and
Japanese have been posted. If you find a problem with them
please email UOAssist@tugsoft.com
with details.
Feb 19, 2003
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Trial discussion boards have been put up. If
interest is low or maintenance turns out to be high they will be
removed. There is a link in the left panel or go
here. NOTE: Only registered (on the board) can
post. And to complete registration you must provide a valid
email address.
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Thanks to all of you that offered your help with the
Necro spells. The quick help enabled this latest test version to
come out today instead of later.
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The test version posted today should be pretty much
complete with needed AoS updates. In addition to the features
already updated it has:
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Necro reagent counting (see display page of
UOAssist)
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Tithing point display (see display page of
UOAssist)
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Spell names after power words for both Paladin and
Necro spells
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AR display should no longer show the very high AR
values.
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Organizer agent can better stack items when using
the 'drop on bag' position
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Resource counting works with more of the plant
items
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Bags of sending no longer cause problems while
count resources on AoS servers
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Bagballs are now recognized as containers.
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There are more details on the updates
page under the planned for next update section.
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If you'd like to get test releases hit the Settings
button at the bottom right of the update/news page. And set it
to check for test releases. Then you'll need to restart UOAssist.
When there is a test release available a dialog will appear offering
you the option of downloading it. If you have trouble with a
test release you can simply delete UOAssist.dll and the 'release'
version will get downloaded the next time you startup.
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NOTE: Japanese,
Chinese,
German
and Korean
language users. Your language module must be updated to use the
extra features on the display page. Click on your language near the
start of this bullet item to download the test language files.
If you find a problem please report it to uoassist@tugsoft.com. One thing that has not
been tested is if multi-byte characters work correctly for the user
defined resource names.
Feb 14, 2003
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Update - Posted a new version has fixes below and
more. More details on updates page.
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There will be more updates to get UOAssist updated for
new AoS features/changes but time just ran out. This update is
intended to get most broken things working again before the weekend.
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Posted a new TEST release with the following
fixes:
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All new skills in list and working
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Bag 'tagging' is working limitedly.
Currently if a bag has more than one tag you'll only see
one. Meaning if you have the recycle bag and hot sell bag
both set as the same actual bag you will only see one of the
'tags' as you mouse over. Sometimes changing bags around
causes problems with tags not updating correctly as well.
Feb 13, 2003
Feb 12, 2003
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A problem has been found that can cause UOAssist to
freeze up on AOS servers if certain conditions are present. It
is being looked into currently. Hard to guess a solution time as
it is hard to get into the servers for testing.
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UPDATE: A patch has been posted that corrects
the freeze on login problem.
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Things that are being looked into currently:
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Macros containing spell casting (spell casting has changes so macros
with spells are broken, further you can't record them
currently). Status 5:45PM MST: coded - awaiting
servers to test
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Object naming for the vendor list and other areas
that display names (you may see blank names until it is fixed). Status
5:45PM MST: fixed - but some descriptions are long - may need
to tweak (has all the info you see when you view it in your
inventory)
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Skill list does not contain no AoS skills. Status
5:45PM MST: known but not touched yet
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Bag of sending may freeze Counting
Resources. Status 5:45PM MST: not tested yet
Feb 11, 2003
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New test version posted that contains a couple of
highly requested features.
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1 - You can now set up to 6 user defined resources to
count. The extra 4 can be defined on the Advanced resource
page. Only the first 2 on the 'normal' resources page will
display a count directly in UOAssist. But all can be displayed
using the display resources feature (keys page) or on the titlebar if
UOAssist is setup to display there (display page).
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2 - You can now set your own text to display for your
user defined resources.
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There will probably be more test releases this week
for the new AOS features as well. Then once things seem stable
an official update will be done.
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NOTE: Japanese,
Chinese,
German
and Korean
language users. Your language module must be updated use the 4
extra user defined resources. Click on your language near at the
start of this bullet item to download the test language files.
If you find a problem please report it. One thing that has not
been tested is if multi-byte characters work correctly for the user
defined resource names.
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If you'd like to get test releases hit the Settings
button at the bottom right of the update/news page. And set it
to check for test releases. Then you'll need to restart UOAssist.
When there is a test release available a dialog will appear offering
you the option of downloading it. If you have trouble with a
test release you can simply delete UOAssist.dll and the 'release'
version will get downloaded the next time you startup.
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AOS status of UOAssist: A copy was preordered
and did arrive today (from the EA store via UPS). Since there
are major amounts of people trying to get in (yet another land rush
I'd guess) no AOS features/lands will be looked into until at least
tomorrow.
Feb 4, 2003
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Oddly enough the power has gone out (11:20am
MST). Since one of the main UPSes died over the weekend the
updater and web server may go down shortly. Also trial requests
and orders will not be processed until power can be restored as that
server has been shutdown to prolong the remaining UPSes as long as
possible. Bad news is this seems to be a major power outage as
neighboring cities have also lost power. For the humorous side
of this, I (Tug) had just got off the phone with a computer store to
order a replacement UPS when the power failed.
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UPDATE (12:20pm MST)- Power has been
restored. Expected more downtime since power went out in at
least 3 counties.
Feb 2, 2003
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About 1:45am this morning a UPS failed. This
failure took down the update and web server. Sorry for the
trouble but all is back up now.
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The failure of the UO patcher is not related to the
trouble Tugsoft was having. OSI/EA is aware of the problem
UOPatch is having according to their website.
Jan 31
Jan 24, 2003
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Well the telco has finished the line testing but was
unable to pin point the problem so the intermittent problems may
remain for a while.
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Here is a test
UOAssist.dll for those that have reactivated accounts
recently. Save it over the top of your current UOAssist.dll
which is in your UOAssist directory.
Jan 23, 2003
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Connection problems: Since the total outage
experienced on Dec 10th there has been a continued connection
problem. The connection has been going down 2 or 3 times a day
for 30 seconds to 5 minutes at random intervals. So tomorrow
(Jan 24) at 11am MST our connection will be down for 30 minutes to 2
hours as the telco does testing to locate their problem (downtime is
as estimated by the telco). This means the website, email and
the update servers will be unreachable during the testing.
UOAssist will still be usable but the news page will not appear if you
attempt to update during the downtime. Also if you attempt to
update during the downtime you'll be given an error message and told
that if UOAssist can't update XX times in so many attempts it will
become disabled. Simply don't restart UOAssist a bunch of times
so it becomes disabled on you. Sorry for any trouble this might
cause.
Jan 10, 2003
Dec 27, 2002
Dec 20, 2002
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Posted an update. More information on the updates
page.
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Because OSI/EA is hard at work on the Age of Shadows
version they have rejected ideas presented to them in hopes of getting
resync with server put back in but in a way people can't
exploit. They simply don't have the time currently to make sure
it was a good solution. The changes made to the resync feature
were: you couldn't use it if you were moving (like pickup items
feature), couldn't move (speak or anything) for 3 seconds after using
it and could only be used once per 15 seconds.
Dec 11, 2002
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Back in service after 14 hours of downtime. The
phone company has repaired the cable.
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This was not a planned downtime. About a mile
down the road some construction guys dug through a major phone company
cable so it had to be spliced back together.
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A test version was posted today. No new features
or bug fixes, just some code changes.
Dec 10, 2002
Nov 26, 2002
Nov 19, 2002
Nov 15, 2002
Nov 8, 2002
Oct 21, 2002
Oct 18, 2002
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MarkeeDragon.com
now offers the UO Gold for UOAssist program on all shards. So if
you'd like to get UOAssist and pay for it with UO Gold visit www.markeedragon.com/....
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Trouble updating or getting the news page after the
last update? Most likely you have a firewall running that is
preventing UOAssist from accessing the internet. Give UOAssist
access to the internet or turn off the firewall. Special note
for ZoneAlarm users. A number of people have reported that just
turning off zonealarm doesn't help as it continues to block internet
access. You may have to fully uninstall it and reboot before
updates will continue. Or contact ZoneAlarm's support to ask
them how to overcome the problem.
Oct 15, 2002
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The moving of the speech pause helped some and hurt
others so more changes have been made. Unless there is a target
command after the speech the pause will happen after speech
again. More information is on the Updates
page.
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You can get this update if you have UOAssist set to
check for test files. To do that hit the settings button on the
update/news page.
Oct 14, 2002
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A new version of UOAssist has been posted. Visit
the updates page for more information.
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NOTE for people running a personal firewall.
Because UOAssist.exe was updated many (of the better) personal
firewalls will begin blocking UOAssist.exe from accessing the
internet. You'll need to give UOAssist access or it will stop
working.
Oct 1, 2002
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A new Japanese language module has been posted.
The skill names were updated to match what OSI uses in the 3d client.
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A test UOAssist.dll is
available here. It has a new option for non-English language
users. On the skills list (on skills page) you can right click
and select to have skill names displayed in English if desired.
Sept 27, 2002
Sept 23, 2002
Sept 16, 2002
Sept 10, 2002
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A bug was found that can cause one to receive "You can not perform beneficial acts on your target."
from the servers while a macro is playing that has targeting commands
in it or last target/target self is being used. The source of the problem has been found and corrected so
the message will no longer is received.
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If you'd like a test UOAssist.dll with the fix in it download
it here and save it over your current UOAssist.dll.
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The fix will also be in future updates to
UOAssist. Impact of the bug is being evaluated but it seems just
to be a minor bother (extra text on screen) so the update isn't being
loaded on the auto-updater yet.
Sept 5, 2002
Sept 3, 2002
August 24, 2002
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Windows XP users - If you run UOAssist in
'compatibility' mode a couple of problems will occur. First when
UO is in Windowed mode the Max, Min and Close buttons will not be the
correct size. And if you choose a Win9x mode you will be unable
to copy items to the clipboard (skills or vendor bag item list).
So make sure you let UOAssist run in native mode (no compatibility
options on). If you don't remember how you turned it on this is
how: Right click your UOAssist shortcut then choose properties
on the menu that appears. Now click on the Compatibility tab and
there you are. Turn off compatibility mode for best preformance.
August 21, 2002
August 16, 2002
July 27, 2002
July 25. 2002
July 24, 2002
July 19, 2002
June 29, 2002
June 21, 2002
May 30, 2002
May 28, 2002
May 13, 2002
April 25, 2002
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Some blacksmiths have noticed problems with smelting
items. The problem is related to the new dragon hammers.
To smelt non-dragon items you must use a non-dragon hammer. And
to smelt dragon items you must use a dragon hammer. The problem
is UOAssist doesn't know the difference between the hammer
types. So if you have a dragon hammer in your pack and the smelt
agent happens to pick the dragon hammer to use during smelting you
will probably start getting errors stating the item could not be
smelted into ingots.
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To work around this problem simply remove all dragon
hammers from your pack before smelting.
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Currently a 'fix' is being tested in which UOAssist
can tell the difference between a dragon hammer and a 'normal' sledge
hammer.
April 23, 2002
April 14, 2002
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Found a problem with UOAssist.exe that made it default
to 'user defined client location' rather than using the default
client. This caused new installs to get an error when UOAssist
tried to launch UO. The updater should automatically give out the
new exe that will fix the problem.
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If you are getting the launching error you may
have to manually tell UOAssist to use the default location. Do
this by clicking the Settings button at the bottom right of the
update/news page. Near the middle of the settings page you
should see options for 2D client, 3D client or User Defined. Set
it to 2D or 3D as desired.
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Information on updates on the Updates
page.
April 13, 2002
April 11, 2002
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UOAssist.exe and UOAssist.dll have been updated.
More information here.
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Because UOAssist.exe was updated you may need to
update your firewall settings to allow UOAssist.exe access to the
internet again if you are running a firewall. This is also true
of UO itself because client.exe and uotd.exe were updated yesterday.
April 9, 2002
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A test UOAssist.exe has been posted (if you have
UOAssist set to check for test files you will get it
automatically). It reduces bandwidth used while checking for
updates. So for those with modems it make show the update/news
page a little faster.
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The last test UOAssist.dll seems to be working well
for people (no new reports of problems). The plan was to post
this version as a 'release' today or tomorrow but since OSI is
updating the client tomorrow this update will wait until at least
Thursday to avoid a little confusion.
April 6, 2002
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Another problem was found in the test
UOAssist.dll. On Win9x/ME machines UOAssist was not creating the
window for 3rd parties to connect to UOAssist through (like UOAM,
Xena's Magic Tool ...). That has been fixed and a new test file
has been posted. Thanks to those using the test files for
reporting the problems they have found. To get the update you
should be able to just restart UOAssist so it will check for updates.
April 4, 2002 - 2nd update
April 4, 2002
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A test UOAssist.dll was posted. It contains the
pickup agent so you can now specify a bag for UOAssist to put items it
picks up for you. Also contains a fix for carpentry menu
selection in macros.
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If you have UOAssist set to check for test files it
will get it for you automatically.
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If it goes well over the weekend the plan is to
release it early next week.
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IF you do get the test file and have problems with it
do this. First turn off checking for test files by pressing the
Settings button at the bottom right of the update/news page.
Then delete your UOAssist.dll file. When you restart UOAssist it
will download the 'shipping' version for you. Then please report
the trouble to UOAssist@tugsoft.com
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UPDATE: The first test release had a problem
with certain resources (pictures, menus...). A new test release
has been posted that corrects those problems. Thanks for the
quick responses on those problems.
March 7, 2002
March 1, 2002
Jan 30, 2002
Jan 10, 2002
Jan 4, 2002
Jan 2, 2002
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A 'test' UOAssist.dll <removed>. Details about it below:
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The last update introduced a bug with the organizer
agent. The bug makes it so all items past the first item moved
get put in random places. This bug has been fixed and is in the
test UOAssist.dll.
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The selling agent has been changed so it can sell more
than five items again. This version will sell more than 5 items
at a time if the items are in stacks. It will attempt to sell up
to 20 items at a time but will not attempt to sell more than 5 stacks
of items. Hope that is understandable. If you have
problems with sales not completing please send an email with details (server,
quantity, item selling and to what type of vendor).
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If you run into a problem with the test UOAssist.dll
please report it to UOAssist@tugsoft.com.
Then delete your test UOAssist.dll and restart UOAssist. That
will get the current 'shipping' version downloaded for you.
Dec 31, 2001
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An update was posted today. More details on the Updates page.
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Quick run down is the organizer agent can now be used
to fill potion kegs.
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QUICK NOTE ON Organizer agent. Some people think
they just have to setup the organizer bags and items and the agent
will automatically work. This is not the case. You must
setup the organizer bag(s) and item types to put in the bag(s) but you
also must setup hotkeys for the organizer agent on the keys page
(bottom of feature list). Then you activate the organizer agent
using one of the hotkeys and it will move items from your MAIN pack
into the bag you designated. Currently it will not move items
from sub-containers to the organizer bags. Also know that the
organizer bags need to be in your pack.
Dec 29, 2001
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The Chinese language module has been updated.
Thanks to William Yang for his work on the language module.
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The German language module has been updated.
Thanks to Marco Warga for his work on the language module.
Dec 24, 2001
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A big Happy Holidays to everyone.
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An update was posted today. More details on the Updates page.
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The Japanese language module was also updated
today. A special thanks to Takahiro Matsumoto for his work on
the Japanese module.
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If a native German is interested in updating the
German module please email UOAssist@tugsoft.com.
You'll need a resource editor such as VC++ to do the
translation. (UPDATE: This is being taken care of now.
Thanks for the response)
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Also thanks go to OSI for approving the new features
in UOAssist quickly and being responsive to requests.
Dec 4, 2001
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Note for miners using target relative. A new
version of target relative has been added to the macro system
specifically for mining. If you have mining macros that use the
target relative feature and you are having problems with it retarget
the target relative lines (right click then select retarget).
Then after retargeting right click again and select the target
relative location (mining) feature. That should help.
Because of the changes on the servers, concerning mining targeting, it
may not work 100% of the time.
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UOAssist.dll has been updated.
More details on the Updates page.
Nov 30, 2001
Nov 29, 2001
Nov 21, 2001
Nov 16, 2001
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Changes on LS and Test Center 2 caused the smelting
portion of the recycle agent to fail. Today's update should
correct that problem on those 2 servers.
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UOAssist.exe and UOAssist.dll has been updated.
More details on the Updates page.
Nov 10, 2001
Nov 1, 2001
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The last update was quite confusing for a number of
people so I'll try to clear things up and help people understand what
happened so in the future they don't get so concerned about macros and
settings being lost. First a new UOAssist.dll was released on
Tuesday morning before OSI released the client patch. Actually
the client patch was not expected and the updated UOAssist.dll had
nothing to do with it, just bad timing it turns out because it added
to the confusion. Later that day OSI did update the clients and
the data stream was changed. When that happens you see the 'Data
stream has changed....' message from UOAssist. A new
UOAssist.dll actually was not required as often is the case but since
a new UOAssist.dll was released earlier that same day it made people
believe the 'update' didn't work. The problem with the data
stream change made it so UOAssist couldn't tell what shard you were
playing on so it couldn't find character's settings (like macros,
hotkeys if not global, resources data ...). Once the update
server (no new UOAssist.dll was needed) was updated with the info
needed on the data stream change all of the settings, macros ...
'magically' came back because UOAssist again knew what shard you were
using. But when things like this happen there is more fall out
as well. In most cases if you saw the data stream has changed
error you must count resources after the problem is corrected because
any change on your character will get UOAssist out of date. Like
the message says when you first log into the game, it really is a good
idea to count resources. If you don't your bandage self or other
functions that rely on up to date resource data may not function
correctly. Hope that helps.
Oct 30, 2001
Sept 27, 2001
Sept 20, 2001
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A few users have reported problems with UOAssist after
installing IE6.0. This is being looked into and may be related
to problems found on WinXP. If you have IE 6.0 and have problems
when the update/news page is displayed send an email to uoassist@tugsoft.com
explaining the details (OS your are using Win9x, Win2k ....) and it is
possible a test UOAssist.exe will be sent for testing. Also for
you WinXP users, a test UOAssist.exe is available but the 'old' load
method does not currently work on WinXP so you must use one of the
other load methods.
Sept 5, 2001
Sept 5, 2001
Sept 4, 2001 - 2nd update
Sept 4, 2001
August 30, 2001
August 23, 2001
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UOAssist.dll has been updated.
More details on the Updates page.
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Also a note on email addresses. Around 7% of
the email we receive has bad reply addresses so the reply's never
reach the person. If you are sending uoassist@tugsoft.com
email and not getting replies that is most likely the cause (this
includes you Paul).
August 17, 2001
July 13, 2001
June 25, 2001
June 22, 2001
June 20, 2001
June 15, 2001
June 14, 2001
June 13, 2001
June 8, 2001
June 6, 2001
May 31, 2001
May 30, 2001
May 25, 2001
May 18, 2001
May 9, 2001
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A new UOAssist.dll has been released. More
details on the Updates page.
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WARNING: If you
cancel the downloading of the new dll UOAssist will become disabled
until you update. If you did this and have UOAssist set to only
check for updates once per day use the following start menu shortcut
to force UOAssist to check for updates: Start | Programs |
UOAssist | UOAssist - force update check
April 25, 2001
March 30, 2001
March 17, 2001
March 16, 2001
March 10, 2001
March 9, 2001
March 9, 2001
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Here is a new test UOAssist.dll
(version 1.18.6.7) It fixes the vendor auto pricing
feature. But a warning: From the looks of things OSI is
not finished localizing the vendor pricing feature so this may break
again if they do make changes in that area.
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Also got news back from Japan that the test versions
are working fine with multi-byte character sets - so after some more
testing a new UOAssist.dll will be put on the auto-updater.
Hopefully late tonight this will happen.
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Some people have requested that UOAssist 'translate'
the new magic item descriptions to the 'old' way. Meaning 'magic
katana [1/0/1/0]' would become 'durable katana of might' (or
whatever). Since OSI is planning to make further changes in this
area it will have to wait for UOAssist as well to see what they do.
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The above causes problems for the vendor bag list as
well for magic items. Once OSI finishes the changes to this
feature UOAssist will be modified to better display the magically
properties of items. Same for exception items that are 'tagged'
with the makers name.
March 8, 2001
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Fixed a few more problems created from the
localization changes. Fixed the auto-GM mark, vendor agent magic
item id, and vendor agent list.
UOAssist.dll version 1.18.6.6.
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NOTE There have been reports that vendor agent auto-pricing is
not working still. That will be looked into most likely
tomorrow.
March 7, 2001 - 2nd post
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Found a couple more items that needed adjustment for
the localization changes.
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Also fixed the problem for people using UOA Translator
and not being able to talk to NPC's effectively.
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Here is the new test UOAssist.dll (version 1.18.6.5)
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Still waiting for word back from Japan to make sure
the changes work correctly on multi-byte character systems. If
you happen to be using a Japanese/Chinese/Korean version of Windows
and would like to try some test out email
us:).
March 7, 2001
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For those on servers that have been updated for Third
Dawn lands here is a test UOAssist.dll
(version 1.18.6.4). It should fix many of the broken features
(stacking, dress and arm descriptions...). Just save it over
your current UOAssist.dll to use it. If that is something you
don't know how to do or are not comfortable doing just wait:).
Once it has been tested in Japan it will be released and the update
will happen automatically.
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If you use the 3rd party addon UOA Translator you
probably won't be able to converse with NPC's (like vendors or bankers
...). For now you'll have to uninstall UOA Translator while a
solution is being coded.
March 4, 2001 - 2nd post
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Our connection to the internet was interrupted for a
while causing updates to fail. When this happens you see the
message Failure XX. XX (some number 10 or less) more times and
UOAssist will be disabled. Well the error isn't worded the best
so I'll attempt to explain it. What it means is if the update
check fails 10 times in a row UOAssist will be disabled UNTIL the next
successful update check. It is not a permanent disable, just
temporary. The error message will be changed in a future release
that should make that clear.
March 4, 2001
March 3, 2001
Feb 20, 2001
Feb 16, 2001
Feb 15, 2001
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If you are crashing on entering the 3rd dawn beta
server try using the 3rd dawn beta client. The cause of the
crash seems to be getting a description of an item from the server (we
can not reproduce it still, if you have an item that reproduces the
problem please let us know). What is happening is if you set a
dress setting in UOAssist when you log into the server UOAssist
requests the description of the item(s). When the servers return
the description it can crash the 'old' UO client because it is in a
new format. Since we have not been able to reproduce it this is
our best guess with the data we have received from people that had the
problem.
Feb 5, 2001
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More news on the speech problem: The speech
packet has been changed which is causing problems IF you have the
UOAssist translator plug-in installed and also for people using UO
Auto Map and group chat (via the -- command). Also UOAssist
command line commands are broken because of the change. It is
being looked into and should be fixed later today. This change
will require a new UOAssist.dll. Once the update is posted it
should correct problems with the translator and UOAM as well without
requiring an update of either of those products.
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-- An update was released for UOAssist.dll (version
1.18.1) that should correct the problems. NOTE: we have not
tested this with any language other than English so non-English users
may still experience problems. If you do please let us know
at uoasssist@tugsoft.com.
Feb 3, 2001
Jan 22, 2001
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A new test UOAssist.exe has been posted. It
allows you to select use of the 'standard' or 'Third Dawn' client
easily. This setting is found by pressing the 'Settings' button
in the bottom right of the UOAssist update news page. NOTE- If
you get this new file it will default to launch the standard UO client
so you'll need to set it to launch the Third Dawn client if that is
what you wish to use.
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This new test UOAssist.exe also may help the people
that sometimes can not restart UOAssist after exiting without
rebooting because UOAssist thinks it is already running.
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Here is the Third Dawn page
which has the file on it.
Jan 19, 2001
Jan 15, 2001
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The web server was having some trouble over the
weekend so people attempting to retrieve lost keys on the Locate Key
page, get a trial key or order UOAssist may have run into
problems. This has been taken care of and should work fine
now. Sorry for the trouble.
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Once again there are a few people out there trying to
get your UO account information or access to your machine by spreading
fake programs they say are either 'UOAssist key generators', an add-on
to UOAssist or betas (like house add-ons/agents) to UOAssist.
The current fake key generator is easily found as a trojan by Norton
Anti-Virus but the 'house beta' was not initially detected as
such. After looking at the program itself it is easily seen as a
trojan though. So once again a warning: Never download (or
accept via an instant messaging product like ICQ) programs that people
you do not know in real life. If a person claims to be a
Tugsoft, Inc employee they WILL ALWAYS have an <name>@tugsoft.com
email address and most times the UOAssist@tugsoft.com
email address will be used for all UOAssist related email. Do
not download supposed 'beta' or 'add-on' products claiming to be from
Tugsoft unless it is right off the Tugsoft website, any other source
is a fake and most likely contains a trojan. It is a good idea
to run an anti-virus program and keep it up to date but even these
products will not catch all trojans/virus programs so use safe
download practices to protect your machine and information.
Jan 11, 2001
Jan 2, 2001
Dec 28, 2000
12-20-00
12-4-00
11-6-00
11-2-00
10-28-00
10-27-00
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Here is the easiest method I have come up with to
recover from the bad updateace.dll problem.
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Make sure UOAssist is not running.
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First Uninstall UOAssist
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Second - reinstall UOAssist
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NOTE - If you do not uninstall before running UOAssist
it will not think it needs to be installed. If you click on the
link above and say 'run from current location' and have not
uninstalled most likely UO will get started and UOAssist won't be
running. Make sure you uninstall first. If you make sure
you pick the 'None- leave all settings' options during the uninstall
your key(s) and settings you had for UOAssist will not be removed.
10-25-00
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First, sorry for the worst update in UOAssist history.
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Here is how to recover from the update problem.
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Make sure UO Auto-map is not running.
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Make sure UOAssist is not running.
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Delete UpdateAce.dll from your UOAssist directory.
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Delete UOAssist.exe from your UOAssist directory.
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Download this UOAssist.exe
and run it
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Troubleshooting if you do the above and still have
problems -
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Hit the settings button (bottom right of the
update screen) - the version for UOAssist.exe should be 1.5.2.2
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10-23-00
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A few problems have been found and corrected with the
new UOAssist.exe that was posted.
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The problems some had were - UOAssist wouldn't appear
on the screen after updating, UOAssist would display a 'startup error'
when exiting UO, and a couple had a problem with an illegal program
instruction error being displayed when the news was being
displayed. All of the above have been fixed. You can
manually download the new UOAssist.exe from the Updates page. If
you are getting the illegal program error download the new
UOAssist.exe and delete the UpdateAce.dll in your UOAssist directory.
10-23-00
10-19-00
9-28-00
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The week of updates continues. OSI released a
new client so a new UOAssist.dll has been posted.
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NOTE -- You must have client version 2.0.2 to log in
successfully. If you have problems with UO patching up here is a
url to info from OSI.
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If you have problems with the UOAssist updater getting
version 1.16.11 of UOAssist.dll you can get the full install from the Get
It Now page and reinstall (no settings will be lost). But if
you can explain in detail what happens and when the updater fails I'd
like to get a message so it can be looked into. Please include
how you connect to the internet (modem, dsl, cable...) and if you go
through a firewall or proxy server. Email
here
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Also there is a Japanese module for UOAssist available
and other languages are in the works. Here is a link to the languages
page.
9-26-00 The sun is up now - Tug
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If you can run UO fine but are having problems with
UOAssist send a email even if you did already last night. Since
over 200 emails were received many of them that seemed to be
concerning the patch were deleted after the problem was resolved.
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If you can not run UO without UOAssist you'll need to
get that working first. The version UO (client.exe) displays
should be 2.0.0g.
9-26-00
9-25-00 (3rd update)
9-25-00 (2nd update)
9-25-00
8-10-00
We will monitor the Chesapeake shard on Wednesday, August 9th, and
will then proceed to publish all remaining
shards. All remaining North American (excluding
Siege Perilous and AOL Legends), Japanese, and European UO shards
will have the publish active following their Thursday,
August 10th (local server time) maintenance
period. The publish will be active on the Korean, Taiwanese,
Australasian, Siege Perilous, and AOL Legends shards following their
Friday, August 11th (local server time) maintenance period.
7-21-00
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UOAssist now supports languages other than
English. Currently there is a Japanese module available.
More information is available on the Language
page. (NOTE: An updated Japanese module was posted at
9:30pm MST)
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For those that used the test files and noticed the
'Pickup agent' and now are wondering where you can find it - you
can't. OSI would not approve the pickup agent (the only extra
feature it provided was the pickup bag) so it was removed.
7-20-00
7-10-00
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It seems that OSI changed the ID's for many items in
UO with the update they made on Saturday. This means you'll need
to recount resources (NumLock is default) and reset all bags (disarm,
undress, hot sell, recycle, vendor...) in UOAssist as well as any items set for the Use
Once agent. You should reset your arm settings and dress
settings.
7-3-00
6-23-00
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Do not attempt to order (paid for or trial) a key for
non-OSI shards. The order system will reject all such orders
(and always has) even if you use the 'old' order forms that allow you
to completely fill out the order. Also as the Locate Key page
already says it will NOT give you a key to use on non-OSI shards.
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A challenge for non-OSI shard people that want
UOAssist support resumed. Here is
the link.
6-20-00
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In the past steps have been taken and extra code added
to UOAssist so it would work better (or at all in some cases) with
non-OSI shards. As explained below, because of the last update to
the UO client the non-OSI servers would not work (with the latest
client). UOAssist was updated to work with the latest client as
the paying customers would expect. Most of the people that play on
non-OSI shards and use UOAssist for free understood this and had no
problem with it. But a few have decided that Tugsoft is a bunch
of 'colorful metaphors' because UOAssist works with the latest client
and old versions of UOAssist are not provided to them. Because
of such messages all code in UOAssist that was there to work with non-OSI
shards is being removed. The free keys that were on other tools
page are also being disabled. UOAssist will no longer work on non-OSI shards
even when/if they update to work with the current client.
Tugsoft has no desire to get such emails from people for whom we
provided a free service so the service has been removed.
6-14-00 2nd update
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Almost daily we get emails that have bad return email
addresses in them. If you are not receiving replies to inquiries
most likely that is the reason why. Check your email package and
make sure the reply email address is set correctly. If we can't
just hit the reply button to sent you a reply most likely you won't
get one.
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On non-OSI server support: UOAssist is designed
for and tested on OSI shards. Recent updates to UO and UOAssist
have made it so neither the current version of UOAssist or current
client.exe (UO) will work with the non-OSI shards. We do not
keep compiled versions of 'old' UOAssist.dll's around so please don't
ask for an old version. UOAssist will not work on any server
that can not use the latest client.exe (2.0.0d) from OSI.
6-14-00
6-3-00
6-1-00
5-31-00
5-26-00
5-15-00
5-12-00
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A change OSI made in version 2.0.0a of the client has
made it so the current version of UOAssist will not allow you to log
out of the game and then log back in until you shut down UO/UOAssist
and restart it. An update SHOULD be posted later today to
overcome that problem.
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The logout/login problem has been fixed here and will
be released later today. The reason it has not been released yet
follows: An update of UOAssist was submitted for approval by OSI
a couple of weeks ago. Due to staffing/job duty changes and such
at OSI the update hasn't been reviewed to my knowledge. OSI was
emailed early this morning (like 1am) to see if the status of that
process could be determined today because of the needed update caused
by client 2.0.0a. Once news is heard on that an update will be
posted. Or if no news is heard an update will still be posted
later today but the new features OSI is reviewing will not be in it.
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9:48 am update: OSI is going to fix the problem
on there end it seems. Wasn't given a time/date of when that
will happen though. If it doesn't happen by this afternoon the
plan is to update UOAssist without the new features.
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6:45pm - posted a new version of UOAssist. It
does contain a new vendor agent that was awaiting approval from OSI
(got that today). More details on the Updates
page.
4-19-00
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If you are having problems typing certain letters in
UO like 'a' or 's' ... most likely you have features of UOAssist
assigned to those keys. You can go to the keys page and reassign
the key or turn on the 'pass onto uo' checkbox for that feature and it
will go back to working as it did before the update to UOAssist.
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If you are having problems logging into the game and
get the error that the account name/password is incorrect or the
account doesn't exist most likely UO didn't update correctly.
Try logging on without UOAssist and if the problem still happens you
need to get UO updated correctly before you'll be able to log into the
game.
4-18-00
- UOAssist was updated to work with the latest patch from OSI.
More details on the Updates page.
4-12-00
- A new test uoassist.dll has been posted on the test
page. You can now 'lock' macro to prevent accidental
re-recording of a macro. Next to the macro #16 button you should
see a 'lock' button. When depressed the macro is 'locked'.
3-31-00
- A new test uoassist.dll has been posted on the test
page. It should correct problems with smelting colored items
going slowly. It was not tested with NPC made colored armor though
which is different. Also on the 'Keys' page in UOAssist that is a
new option to support IME (a utility used by those wishing to enter
multi-byte characters [Japanese ...]). Leave the option off unless
you need IME support.
3-23-00
- There is is a problem with smelting colored items that will cause it
to be very slow (ten seconds per item). This is being corrected
but most likely the fix will not be available until sometime next
week.
3-21-00
3-18-00
- Posted a test uoassist.dll. It changes all / commands to -
commands so they will work with the new group commands from OSI.
Visit the test page if you'd like to get it.
3-14-00
- Posted the latest dll. The major addition to it is keys are now 'read' differently
so UOAssist can use the numpad and other keys not allowed previously. This may cause
a few hotkey settings to become invalid. If you find one of your hotkeys is no
longer working check the Keys page in UOAssist and make sure it is still setup. More
info on the Updates page.
3-9-00
- Changed the time delay on the skills that OSI lowered the delay. This is currently
only in the latest test build. So if you want the change you will need to download
the test dll from the test page. There are other changes
in the test dll as well. The biggest is the way keys (hotkeys) are handled has
changed so more possibilities are now available. This MAY make it so you have to
reassign your hotkeys.
2-17-00
- It seems that UOAssist isn't working on TUS shards again. Some changes were put in
to make UOAssist work better on POL servers which seem to be causing the trouble. It
is being looked into and hopefully a test version with a fix will be available in a couple
of days.
2-15-00
- Pickup reagents has been approved and is back in with a few changes. It will only
attempt to pickup one reagent per keypress. Also you must stop moving for a short
period before trying to use the feature. More details on the Update
page.
- A common request people have asked for is that pickup reagents or something like it
pickup arrows and bolts. This is in the plans and should be in the next update (no
date at this time).
- A few people have noticed that smelting and repairing are slower than they used to be.
OSI changed some of the messages the server sent and it is causing the problem.
The next update (test or release) will be adjusted so the speed is back to
'normal'. BUT the agent is still working fine. If you are having problems with
it most likely you just need to recount resources (NumLock is default). Also the
recycle bag must be in your pack (not on the ground ...).
2-11-00
- Pickup reagents is still looking good and the last issue should be resolved soon.
I was hoping it would be completed by today so it could be back in for the weekend but
next week is more realistic at this point.
2-10-00
- It is looking good that pickup reagents will be 'approved' soon and put back in. A
few changes are being made and if all goes well it could be back in in a few days.
2-9-00
- A small update to UOAUpdate.exe was posted
today. Doesn't change any UOAssist features.
- Still seem to be having problems getting responses from OSI about the pickup reagent
feature. But a 'new' version of UOAssist has been submitted with that feature back
in for approval. A delay was added before the first reagent was attempted to be
picked up so you can't run and pickup reagents at the same time. It is not known if
that is the problem(s) OSI had with the feature because of lack of response to the
questions sent them. Part of the delay problem may be that a new person may soon be
assigned to review UOAssist changes. Hopefully the issue(s) can be resolved soon and
the feature put back. Like many of you I don't understand what the problem with the
feature could be.
2-2-00
- A reply was received to my inquiry about the problem OSI has with pickup reagents.
But to me the reason was very 'muddy' so I've asked for better clarification.
Also I have sent a possible change that could be made to see if that was more
'acceptable' to them. The change I suggested was to make a delay before the first
reagent was picked up. That way a player couldn't run/walk and pickup reagents at
the same time. This is an effort to slow down the gathering as that may be the
underlying problem OSI has with the pickup reagent feature.
2-1-00
- OSI sent a message saying that the pickup reagent feature needed to be disabled so it
has been. Contact with OSI was attempted but no success so far and no reason was
given. Once more information is known more details will be posted here.
1-28-00
- A few people were still receiving the warning that the data stream had changed so a new
patch has been posted that should help those people out.
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