It dosen't, the dat files are downloaded each time you run the patcher.

same problem
 

it's still asking for patchsrv.dat! (even with mdac_type installed)
nobody can fix it?

for some reason my patch.dat is particularly small...

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2003/4/14 PM 06:36:20
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GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 257 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 257
GetFile Completed: 804

This problem still not solved ... sigh ... :cry:

I am having this problem now also, scoured this board for weeks and tried everything the patcher will not work, keeps asking for patchsvr.dat no matter what.

IS there a fix for this i'm missing OR is there a place where i can just download what the patcher usually sends??

Please nearly three weeks i've been trying on and off, this is my first post on it cause i'm lost.

Let me explain a few things

1) Patchsrv.dat is built INTO the exe. What it stores is the patch server data. But it is a resource inside the patch.exe itself.

2) We have it doing "weird" things to keep people from piggybacking on our system to download old files as much as possible. It does a connection to an IP address itself, that is why proxies DO NOT WORK WITH IT!. It opens an IP address to the patch server then does its own downloads, it is NOT USING INTERNET EXPLORER. Yes, the hostname it is trying to request does not exist. It is designed that way. It does a DNS on a whole other domain to get the ip of the server, does a direct tcp connection to port 80, then does its own HTTP/1.1 handling.

3) We dont know why some people are having problems.

I have had no problems with it on Directly connected Windows 2000 workstations (Latest Service Pack) and Windows XP Pro (Latest Service Pack + hotfixes). My machines are not behind a nat firewall device or any type of proxy server that my ISP makes me go through (like some dsl/cable providers do).

freakin noice hogie. freakin noice. I am impressed.