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Colen
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Old July 27th, 2016, 07:35 AM
Updated 7/30 with new beta

Hi everyone,

We've just posted a new beta of Hero Lab, and we'd like your help testing it before we do an official release (hopefully sometime next month).

This beta is intended to test some improvements to Hero Lab we’ve been working on. With this new version, any changes you make to a character should happen anything from 10-50% faster (depending on the character and game system you’re using). This improvement should be especially noticeable with Pathfinder characters that include one or more “minions” (such as a character with an arcane familiar, a mount and a hireling).

This speedup should make Hero Lab more responsive and pleasant to use, especially on iPad (which has less processing power available to it than your average desktop or laptop computer), and especially for complex Pathfinder characters.

Before we officially release this version of Hero Lab, we want to get some wider testing done, because we’ve achieved this speedup by taking certain “shortcuts”. While Hero Lab automatically computes which shortcuts are and aren’t safe to take, and we have a library of over a hundred tests that verify whether those decisions are correct, it’s possible we’ve missed something. That’s where you come in!

Please note that this is a beta, and thus may experience more crashes or bugs than a normal version of Hero Lab. If that’s an issue for you, you should be able to download and install the “old” version of Hero Lab from the updates mechanism to restore the previous non-beta version at any time (as long as you have an internet connection).

WHAT TO TEST

Please let us know if you notice anything incorrect on your character when you’re working with this beta – for example, if a stat is wrong, or if an option is shown incorrectly. If that happens, please do the following:
  1. Try to remember how you got to this state of the character – for example, “I added feat X, then changed ability score Y, then turned on condition Z”.
  2. Go to the Develop menu and select the “Trigger Full Evaluation Immediately” option. Does this fix the problem? If so, it’s definitely a bug with the beta, so please report it to us, along with a description of what you did to get this far. If you can figure out an exact series of steps to reproduce the issue yourself, that’s super helpful.
  3. Please submit a saved portfolio, a description of what you did to cause the issue, and whether you can reproduce the bug yourself.
  4. If the “Trigger Full Evaluation Immediately” option doesn’t resolve the problem, please check whether the bug occurs in the “released” version of Hero Lab (v7.6b). If it does, then it’s a data file issue, not a bug in the beta – please report the bug in the data files as normal.

Please also let us know if you experience any crashes during the beta. If you do, please include the “dump file” generated by Hero Lab when making your bug report, along with a description of what you were doing, and any saved portfolio you were working on.

KNOWN ISSUES
  • Some operations (for example, compiling the data files, or loading a saved portfolio) may be slightly slower than before (around 5% or so). These will be addressed before the official release.

DOWNLOAD

[beta testing over, link removed]

Thanks, and please let us know in this thread if you run into any problems!

Last edited by Colen; November 2nd, 2016 at 08:34 AM.
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Old July 30th, 2016, 11:06 AM
The download link gives me a 404 error. Is there a mirror I could use?
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Old July 30th, 2016, 03:23 PM
Sorry about that! I've uploaded a new beta here:

Download the beta!

Thanks for your interest!
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Old July 30th, 2016, 07:41 PM
Thanks for the quick response!
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