News Archive - August 2003

From Zen
If your computer is affected by the MSBlaster worm or its variants; or your computer hasn't been patched against the worm, we urge you to patch your computer as soon as possible. You can find out how on this page at Microsoft.

Also, it's highly advised you patch against another security hole that's asking for trouble: There's a problem with DirectX that allows a virus, trojan, or any malicious programs to infect your computer by simply playing an infected MIDI file. This affects all DirectX versions from 5.2 all the way up to 9.0. Thus, you can be infected by simply viewing an email or webpage that has an auto-playing MIDI file. You can find out more and how to patch this on this page at Microsoft. At least one other major media outlet has reported this.

If you haven't installed all the critical updates in Windows Update, it's probably a good idea to do so now.

The first Emperor competition, Starter for Ten, has appeared at CBC. Make sure you have the patch installed, then head over there to have a go.

The game server is having problems recognising the patched game. This is the a way to get round it until the server is updated:

Open the WONLobby.cfg file in your Emperor folder with notepad.

Edit the last line so the version number reads 1.0.1.0

Save the file as WONLobby.cfg

You should now be able to get into the game lobby and proceed from there.

Thanks to Keith Heitmann for the information

The Emperor patch has been made available and can be downloaded from here. There are English, German, Spanish, French and Italian versions.

As well as fixing a few bugs, it also includes the Jin Wudi Campaign and several new multiplayer scenarios, some designed by names you'll recognise as forumers here at Emperor Heaven. The full details of what is in the patch can be found here