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Originally Posted by Alex Scott
Please continue with the feedback everyone. Just to quickly address some recent points:
Alex, Thank you for dropping in this thread and letting us know we are not posting in vain - much appreciated
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PokerStars, please change pokerstarsupdate.exe to not bother checking the trivial files (such as card images and sound effects) before running an update.
These files are absolutely NOT trivial. Imagine, for example, that your flatmate decides he will play a trick on you, so he changes the image files in the PokerStars directory so that deuces look like aces, treys look like kings, and fours look like queens. Don't you think that this could cost you a lot of money?
Now imagine a virus that targets online poker programs, and does this on a much larger scale, to thousands of players. You can see why it's important that PokerStars checks the integrity of these files before it starts.
I do have 'better support for custom card mods' on the wish list, however.
You should really only do this if you're having technical problems with the updater and have been told to make this change by our technical support team. I can't stress how important it is that you use the latest version of PokerStars where possible. If you intentionally bypass the updates and then experience technical problems, you have only yourself to blame.
Just to contradict this - are you aware how *very* difficult it would be to swap about the face & index of the cards without it looking dodgy? It is nowhere near a trivial task to be undertaken for a laugh, like it would be renaming the old-style card bitmaps (like one still gets on Party).
And if a roommate or a targeted virus were to do this, do you think they/it would not know to change your shortcut to the non-update pokerstars.exe?
I suggest a good idea - have pokerstarsupdate.exe have a confirmation that allows "continue anyway" - ideally listing the files that are flagged for download. This way we who use cardmods etc. could see only the cards are flagged - or that a "real" update is available - at this time we cannot tell, and just update now and again - usually when someone created a thread here or in software wondering what is new
I will re-post what I consider the most important thing - please revert the gx.ini to the way it used to be - plain text, user editable - or at least publish the decode/encode tools in the "xtheme creation guide", as you do with the alphamask converters.
A long time ago we could do some seriously useful modifications (such as making stack size font bigger, moving elements of the table to preferable locations, changing fonts/colours and so on - this is no longer possible, for reasons I cannot fathom.