We have released a patch to the official release version of X-TENSION that should be installed by everybody playing X-TENSION. You can download it from the DOWNLOAD page.

ATTENTION: This patch requires that you did not overwrite the first three "original" savegames as found after installing from the X-TENSION CD. If you saved your own savegame over these files, first copy them to another location, and replace them with the files found on your X-TENSION CD. These savegames are:

    X0.sav
    X1.sav
    X2.sav

in the X-TENSION installation path (e.g c:\program files\egosoft\X-tension)

This is patch 1.1 to 1.4. You can see which version you have installed at the top of the startup windows when starting the game.


Problems executing the patch:

In some cases it can happen that the patch utility aborts patching with a message telling you that not all files could be patched. The important files that have to be patched are:

    X-TENSION.EXE
    01.dat
    01.cat

There are different possible reasons why the patch may fail:

• Make sure you entered the correct path when starting the patch program.
• Make sure you are using the right version of the patch for  your version of X-TENSION
• If only X-TENSION.EXE could not be patched, this indicates that your system may be infected with a computer virus. Check your system with a virus checker, then reinstall X-TENSION and apply the patch again.
• The patch can not be executed from a CD or another none writable media. You have to copy the patch EXE to your harddisk and make  sure that there are at least about 30 MB of free memory left on it.
  

Changes from Version 1.1 to 1.4:

• Savegames will be smaller. There was a memory leak causing some savegames to grow faster than needed The patch fixes this and saves  memory. This can help make the game run considerably smoother
• 25MW shield factories were not producing goods. This has been fixed. However the time it takes to produce just one shield is still more
  than 7 hours!
• Several changes to help make full SINZA mode run smoother.   Especially low end systems can sometimes have problems with the game running at full SINZA speed. The patch tries to solve this problem. However especially systems with a slow CPU or too little RAM may still have this problem.

And many more small changes.


FAQ about X-TENSION an X-BTF:

In the following text we summarized some frequently asked questions and the answers for you. Among other things this text also makes
suggestions that should help if you have difficulties starting X-BTF or X-TENSION on your computer.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR X-TENSION !!!
Please always insert your original X-Beyond the Frontier CD in your CD-ROM before starting X-TENSION. X-TENSION requires the X-BTF CD for playing!

Game related issues about X-TENSION:

- Most information about X-TENSION is explained in detail in the X-TENSION manual. You can find this document as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file on this CD together with the software required to read or print it. If you run into any problems, make sure you read this document first.

However, there are some last minute updates not covered in the manual:

- You can now sell ships in a shipyard. As soon as you land with two ships in a shipyard, you can now sell the one that you are not currently flying from the trading menu. Order your ships to land at the shipyard or order them  to follow you before you land in a shipyard, then wait for them to arrive. You can switch between ships with the "change ship" menu, and even sell the ship you are currently using this way.

- When buying new ships in a shipyard you can now immediately choose some basic upgrades from the local equipment dock.

Some other frequently asked questions about the gameplay of X-TENSION:

- The "Turbo boost" upgrade works a bit differently with X-TENSION than it used to work in X-BTF. It now "only" accelerates your ship faster but does not make you faster than the maximum speed of your ship. To increase the maximum speed you still have the option to buy "engine tunings".

- You can fly more than 30 different ships in X-TENSION, and many of them have unique special features. Most of the freighters you can buy can not be equipped with lasers while most of the fighter ships can not transport as many goods as a freighter can. If you see other people (e.g Pirates) flying ships that you would like to have, you may consider to steal them. Some ships that you can not buy can still be taken over in a fight. Pirate freighters ,for example, are a nice compromise between a fighting ship and a transporter.

- Compared to X-BTF you will find that in X-TENSION you will have to spend a little more time on planning where you want to build your factories. Most factory types only make a good profit for you if you put them in a good location. Check the  demand for your product as well as the supply with the needed resources. Only when you buy your resources cheap and sell your products expensive will your factory
make you a rich tycoon fast :)

- Like in X-BTF, in X-TENSION you still need to hire a TL class transporter ship when you want to build a factory. Hire the ship, then dock at a shipyard!

- Check your logbook for details about possible missions you are playing.

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For more information especially about technical problems such as crashes see the X-Beyond the Frontier FAQ which explains many possible hardware related problems.