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Merry Christmas! And...
Wish you all the best this holiday season and a healthy start into the new year, guys!
Now to the status of the update 0.07 and for those who are interested, what precisely happened the last days:
The good news, my new PC machine is finally put together and ready to work! And I just now finally finished with the installation of the operating system and all drivers. I just still need to install all the programs and then keep on working!
But the last days have really been a torture and the main reason for that is my turning from Intel to AMD, and because I wanted everything very quickly to keep on working with full power as fast as possible! That was a mistake! Unfortunately it turned out that the AMD Threadripper motherboards and CPU's are so freaking special and huge (CPU), that you need also very special hardware for it. Above all a special CPU cooler! And the choice for the AMD TR4 socket is really limited, especially what concerns "quality stuff"! So after I finally had everything together on Thursday last week I've started to build the new PC and then *facepalm*... silly me, after working my whole life with Intel only, I totally forgot that my new mainboard is now an AMD and of course my current Intel CPU won't fit in there! So I immediately went on Amazon and ordered the "AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X" per morning express! Unfortunately it came only at noon. But the joy didn't last long because the next problem appeared soon. The heatsink of my "Noctua U14S TR4" CPU cooler is too wide and blocks the first slot for the GPU on my "Gigabyte X399 Xtreme" motherboard, although it was specially made for the TR4 sockets and there're not really many of them! I thought about how to fix this skillfully but no chance. You just can't insert the first GPU into the motherboard without damaging it and the GPU at the same time! Again *facepalm*. The water coolers which maybe could fit on it would arrive only after christmas (27th December). So I rebuilt some of the hardware back again in my old PC and tried to work a little bit on the game. Then the next day (Saturday) I drove 80 km to "Alternate", the biggest PC company in Germany, and after a detailed consulting they offered me the water cooler "Corsair H115i RGB Platinum" which has the option to be installed on a TR4 socket!
Back home. After reading the instruction I started to install the cooler and of course the next problems appeared! Neither the cooler head is big enough to cover the whole CPU, nor the heatsink with its radiators fits in my huge computer housing, again because of the Gigabyte motherboard construction! and although I told the guys in the store about my hardware, they said everything will be fine! But after some thinking, there'd be some improvised solutions, which would require to dismantling the whole computer housing! But because the cooler is too small for the AMD CPU anyway, and even though AMD has this cooler version on their website for their threadripper CPU's, it was still too doubtful to put a cooler on such a hardcore powerful CPU which doesn't cover all of it! And the next day is Sunday and all stores are closed! After searching a proper cooler for a Threadripper for hours, I finally found the "Be quiet! Dark Rock Pro TR4" which is really the only one that could fit in this freaking PC! I had no other choice than to rebuild again some hardware back in my old PC and keep on working on the game with the handbrakes on. This morning I had to drive again the 80 km to that store, took the entire PC with me this time, got that cooler and... hallelujah, IT FITS!!!
So in the end, I had to replace everything but the SSD's!
You see I could hardly work on the game the last days (plus I had to work just with 40% of my current power the last 2 weeks!). What still needs to be done? I'm currently at the very end of the last event and I think now, when I finally can work properly, I should be finished with the 3D scenes around Wednesday and can start on Thursday with the programming and translation. This will take around 6-7 days. So don't expect an update before the 2nd of January! Sorry!
If everything works fine and nothing serious happens with some software or, God forbid, the hardware again, it should be released between the 2nd and 5th of January!