...please download a new intaller.

What the h*ll? What's going on? I installed the game, and only one patch is available ("version 3"). It seems that I should install the previous versions of the patches first, but I have no idea where I can download them from? Only version 3 is available. How is this supposed to work?!

GOG really throws you back to the "good" old days. Wow.

Same problem (although I had patched mine with 2.1 prior). I guess new patches aren't retroactive (they don't include previous updates), but then GOG really shouldn't remove the old patches when they upload a new one. It looks like I will have to download the whole client again. :/

Same problem here. Previous patch was 2.2.0.11. New Patch is 2.4.0.13 (ironically titled patch 3). Error text reads this patch does not support your version of the game, please download a new installer. Please advise.

Same here, any solutions? My version is patch 2, although I didn't install the last hotfix. I really don't want to reinstall, so, options?

Yeah I second MyrrDisparo - is it possible to find older parches on GOG? I need patch 2.2.0.11.

Yep, that's my problem right there. And it really shouldn't be. GOG losing points for me now, swaying me towards the hassle-free automatic updates of the Steam version. Guys, you need to do better than this!

Maybe in the future I'll stick to buying good OLD games rather than newly released games requiring the usual post-launch patches. It would be a shame through, cuz I really want to support GOG - I have 67 titles in my GOG library and I hope to keep growing my collection.

Well, probably we need a official answer, but if you see the main installer now is the V 2.4.0, the patch 3.0 probably will check you has that version, only possible if you installed the previous patchs, including the hotfix, or uninstalling the game and downloading the new version and installing (And then the new patch).

That is not new, almost all the current games on Gog, about all the "Good olds" are in the version 2.x.x and you only need to download the installer one time, the games that got a new patch by any reason eventually updated the number, the system seemed to be flawless with oldest game, but now that Gog try to bring new games, the system is slow, and chaotic as the numbers on the files are not related to the version from the game (What twobears had mentioned is that).

P.d. Steam updates are invisible due the way they own the licenses and how handle the games (The so called "Evil way" of Steam as that involves to run Steam for play anything). As, Gog give the installers to the users without being force to use any extra program we have the natural limitations coming from this. And men, remembering how funny was to install my NWN games and then patching them, and that before Bioware/Atari killed the servers for the updates... ahhhh so old memories...

Patch 2.3 is really small, and I have it. Would uploading it somewhere lead to dangerous men knocking down my door? :D

I installed patch 2.4 on top of my previous game, which had both patches installed, including the hotfix, and it went fine here.

Thanks, but in my case it wouldn't help I guess. I downloaded the installer when the game was released, but didn't have the chance to play until now. I don't have any of the previously released patches (there seems to be several).

I wouldn't mind executing manually an installer, if there really was a real technical issue preventing automatic updates. Or if there was some genuine reason why you couldn't bundle all the updates into a single patch file. But what upsets me still is that either GOG or the developers put full zero effort into this. No thought, no testing, no support. Just deal with it. Too bad so sad.

I suppose the idea is to make it easier for future downloads, so people won't have to apply X amount of patches, or get into a case of "does this contain all patches, or do I need them all?" situation. But it kind of blows for those of us who have downloaded some of them, and now can't update the last patch without downloading the whole game again.

Thankfully I already have all the patches downloaded, and a decent internet line, but it's not great fun to have to re-download ~10GB just for a small patch.

Yeah, it's great for people buying the game today who only have the game and one patch to install.

I missed it by a day.

The world's past me by and I live in one of those areas now without cable. I get charged by my satellite company for everything over 250 Mb a day, but it's free between two and seven in the morning. During that time I can get about 300kbs through the GoG downloader or about one gig an hour.

Yesterday, after three days of downloading the game and dealing with bad chunks and restarting the download a few times, I was finally able to get the whole thing using only the one recommended connection at a whopping 20 kbs. By the time that was done, I couldn't download the 1.5 gb patch, so I put that off until this morning.

Now I need to get the whole game again, so I may be able to play again after the weekend. It's no trouble setting up the downloader to start at two in the morning, but it's frustrating to see that it only managed a few hundred meg before crapping out like it did this morning.

Yeah, I guess I need to stay up all night for two or three nights and babysit the download. It's a good thing that I don't matter in these days of everyone who counts having fat, cheap broadband.

It's probably bad tactics to download an early version of the install but not use it till months later.

Well, one should periodically grab patches as well, so you have them all. That's assuming you know the way GOG does things. I really do think they should host their older patches somewhere. Probably not on the game shelf, because people will inevitably get confused and try installing an old patch on a new build, but an archive of old game patches might be a good idea for GOG to look at. Hmmm, maybe I should toss that on the wishlist.

I agree with that, would be nice to have them available somewhere. When games are as big as they are now, it's not done in a jiff to download the whole thing again. Then you have the possible issue of bandwidth limits too.

Please GOG put online again every old patch released. I only missed the small first hotfix and i don't want to download 22gb again.

thanks