Warning: copied over Wesnoth may cause crashes

[manored]

Just though I would post this here, since I dont see a sticky about it and this is the kind of things developers are bothered about Recently I formatted my pc and I didnt reinstall wesnoth, just copied files. The game seemed to work fine, but I noticed it was crashing on multiplayer with odd frequency (dont know about single-player, didnt got to play it). I reinstalled wesnoth properly and it hasnt crashed ever since. So dont play copied-over wesnoth even if it works

[Gambit]

Only "copy over" the userdata folder. Everything else needs reinstalled properly first.

[ilor]

huh? there's no magic going on during an install, as long as you don't mix up the data and userdata directories between versions, nothing's stopping a copied version from working

[Gambit]

It's just good habbit.

Especially for non-computer savvy users as just copying doesn't create start menu folder, desktop shortcuts, doesn't add it to the list of programs.

And the last thing we need in the world IMHO (even though wesnoth is open source) is more people copying programs.