Update Page

IMPORTANT: As of b4.0.371, GCA has been updated to use your My Documents folder and the Windows application data folders for various data and runtime files used by GCA, instead of keeping them all within the installation folders. This change will improve compatibility across various versions of Windows, especially Vista. Because of this change, both the Patcher and the Data Update may MOVE existing installed files of various types to My Documents, but will DELETE your existing INI files, due to all the path information abruptly becoming incorrect. If you have custom data files stored in your GCA installation folder, you should check to see if they have been correctly moved to the new My Documents locations, and if not, move them yourself. Only the official releases of data files should remain in the GCA installation folders.

In addition, you should be aware that with the change in location of print and export sheets, existing characters will try to look for those sheets in the older, incorrect locations. GCA will try to find the sheets in the new default location if it doesn't find them, but even if found, the new location will not be saved with the character unless you change the location within the Current Character Options tab of the Options window, and then save the character.

We apologize for this one-time inconvenience, and hope the improved path and folder handling will make up for it.

Please be sure to download and install BOTH the GCA 4 Patcher and the GCA 4 Data Update. Also, note that we may release a data update in the future without releasing a patch at the same time, so check here periodically to see if a new data update has been released.

GCA 4 Patcher (4.0.371) – The GCA 4 Patcher will patch *only* the GCA4.EXE program executable, and supporting run-time files. It will not update any data files, character sheets, etc. The patch will update existing GCA 4 release installations to version 4.0.371.

You may need to turn OFF your Anti-Virus or Anti-Malware programs for the duration of the patch process. Patching appears to such programs very much like malware injecting itself into another program.

GCA 4 Data Update (15AUG2008) – The GCA 4 Data Update will update *only* the data files. It will install all the current versions of various types of data, including data files for GURPS books, character sheets, export filters, any included graphics, etc. This Update will overwrite any existing versions with the versions included in the Update. If you have made changes to any of the files that you wish to preserve, you should back them up before running the Update, or change their file names so that they will not be replaced.

This update includes updated versions of all existing GURPS book data files, and the included character sheets. It also includes updates to the variant magic system files that allows characters built with them to remain compatible with the default magic system from Basic Set.

Complete list of changes can be found in the following:

• Changes from previous version.
• Changes to character sheets.
• Changes to the data files.