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Vendetta 1.8.237

Nov 23, 2012 draugath link
- Enhanced password security. Maximum password length has been increased
to 64 characters.
- Fixed problem with video options not getting saved.
- Increased default settings for Adreno 320-based Android devices.
- Removed storms in Deneb.
Nov 23, 2012 NO-DRAGON link
Can`t log in anymore get an "Update failed. Error Code -1"

Installed it new, the new one works, due the old install still brings the error ?
Nov 23, 2012 raybondo link
So you have both the old and new installs on your computer?
Did you install them to different harddrives?
What OS are you using?

Did you run the Updater with Admin rights if on Windows, or as the same user on other platforms?

Did it also display:
patch for <file> failed! (where <file> is a file name)
I'm afraid you'll have to re-run the updater
and re-download these files. Your harddrive is either full
or there is a problem with the patching process.
Please submit a Customer Support ticket via the web site:
https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/support
if your harddrive is not full.
Nov 24, 2012 incarnate link
Cross-posting this from News, so the update is better understood:

VO 1.8.237 includes:

- Enhanced password security. Maximum password length has been increased to 64 characters.
- Fixed problem with video options not getting saved.
- Increased default settings for Adreno 320-based Android devices.
- Removed storms in Deneb.

The biggest news in this update are the major security improvements added with our new password handling system. Note: In order to take advantage of these improvements, you MUST update your password on the game website. We don't prevent you from re-using your old password, but we strongly recommend taking advantage of the new 64-character password length by making a fairly long, memorable passphrase using random words, the benefits of which are described in this famous xkcd comic. In fact, an xkcd fan even created this common word password generator to serve that purpose.

For those interested in the technical details, I'll elaborate a little more. The old password system was quite state of the art for the time when it was created (the late 90s), albeit with far too short of a password character limit. The new design is very much like the old one, which was always similar to bcrypt, but is now enhanced with bcrypt's ability to increase the password CPU-cost in the future. This will let us react to the changing landscape of possible brute-force attacks, and increase security dynamically as necessary (and informing our userbase of the changes if/when they should occur). The current CPU cost is designed to take half a second for the game client to hash on a 1ghz NVIDIA Tegra2-based mobile device. We intend to also thread the client's hashing of passwords, to make the computation process less intrusive on the user interface, at which point we may increase the cost further.

Beyond this, we've improved the cryptographic randomness of the unique salt used to strengthen each password hash, as well as the nonce used to mitigate replay attacks. These have always been features of the protocol, we've just updated and improved them.

In addition, the game server and website still retain the measures to slow down any remote brute-force password attacks, which we added some time ago to mitigate the password length limitations we had at the time.

Of course, all of these technical measures are in vain if the end-user chooses a password that is too short and too easy for computers to guess. So please consider making a new and longer password for the game, perhaps a phrase of random words, and keep it unique to Vendetta Online! Don't use it anywhere else.

In other news, we enhanced the default settings for devices with the Adreno 320 GPU used in the Nexus 4, Asus Padfone 2 and other recent devices. These settings are utilized on first runtime, so existing Nexus 4 players may wish to delete their config.ini and wgaf.cfg from /sdcard/VendettaOnline and allow the game to re-configure itself.

We wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all our US players, and a great weekend to everyone!
Nov 24, 2012 NO-DRAGON link
Both in different partitions, but is now obsolent as the Tip with the "Run with Administrator Rights" seems to solved the problem.
Is Win 7 Home 64-bit and the problem seems to be caused by running VLC and had it opend in the background.
Which seemed to block Vendetta from access to the Sound device on ma Asus Laptop.
Seems Vendetta wants exclusive access to that, why-ever.

Only strange is the Targetless Roiddatabase is empty. So have to rescan all my sectors again.

But I see the problem for now as solved.
Nov 24, 2012 draugath link
targetless stores it's data in a system notes file under the settings directory.
Nov 24, 2012 bornelas link
Vendetta isn't starting, the Updater opens normally but when clicking Play Vendetta nothing happens. Here's what's in error.log:

build 9L30
MacOS version 1058
This is an x86 Macintosh with a Pentium processor.
Hardware: (7 4:i386 CPU_SUBTYPE_INTEL(4, 0)) MacBook3,1 @ 2000 MHz (x2), 2560 MB
archive returned 0
Using singlethreaded rendering.
Using 0 physics worker threads.
[Sat Nov 24 13:22:47 2012] Can't load driver /Jogos/Vendetta.app/drivers/gkvc.dylib: not a Mach-O MH_BUNDLE file type
[Sat Nov 24 13:22:47 2012] Can't load driver /Jogos/Vendetta.app/drivers/libfmodex.dylib: not a Mach-O MH_BUNDLE file type
[Sat Nov 24 13:22:47 2012] Found driver: "Mac sound driver". Type 1, Version 10.1. Load @0x005b0ec0
[Sat Nov 24 13:22:47 2012] Instantiate address: 0x42a150
[Sat Nov 24 13:22:47 2012] Can't load driver /Jogos/Vendetta.app/drivers/refgl.dylib: not a Mach-O MH_BUNDLE file type
[Sat Nov 24 13:22:48 2012] SetVideoMode failed, line 34: m_currentvideodriverinfo=0x0, m_videodriver=0x0
Fatal Error: Couldn't open window.
Nov 24, 2012 raybondo link
bornelas, try deleting the /Jogos/Vendetta.app/drivers/refgl.dylib file and rerun the updater.
VO runs on our mac mini but it is running 10.6.8, not 10.5.8.
Nov 24, 2012 bornelas link
Nope, same error...
Nov 24, 2012 raybondo link
Can you check your system's Console log (located in Applications -> Utilities -> Console while attempting to run VO to see if the system is complaining about something?
Nov 24, 2012 bornelas link
In system.log it shows this message:

Nov 24 19:03:05 MacBook [0x0-0xde0de].vendettaclient[2705]: Fatal Error: Couldn't open window.
Nov 24 19:03:05 MacBook com.apple.launchd[85] ([0x0-0xde0de].vendettaclient[2705]): Exited with exit code: 255
Nov 24, 2012 raybondo link
Please try again. A new update was just released that reverts the driver to a previous version.
Nov 24, 2012 bornelas link
Yep, it's working now.
Nov 24, 2012 Kabuloso link
/Jogos/ ...
Another brazilian felow?
Nov 24, 2012 bornelas link
Portugal, Beshis Orne here :)
Nov 24, 2012 LeberMac link
So I should not reset my password to CorrectHorseBatteryStaple ?
Nov 24, 2012 incarnate link
Yes. Everyone should use that password, because it's the most secure. I know I do.

(note, anyone unable to detect the sarcasm in the above statement should probably not be allowed on the internet).
Nov 24, 2012 Pizzasgood link
Sweet, thanks for finally doing this guys!
Nov 24, 2012 tarenty link
logs in as Incarnate

Hey, the menu really is on the right from in here...
Nov 25, 2012 PaKettle link
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