Well, here we go for another round of the hottest topic in the last few days:

Darkness Rising is installed and patched... And now you can't play anymore, or is there a way to fix it?

Yes, there is: Since the Uthgard Server is not being updated any time soon, he probably won't know how to handle Client Version 1.80, but thanks to Mythic, there is one more .dll in the folder we can use. The one that was responsible for camtest.exe: tgame.dll

So for anyone who already has the newest patch on his Darkness Rising, the connect.bat should be edited to look like this:
@DOLLoader "..\tgame.dll" 81.169.136.116 10300 20 accname password

That is, if you have it in a subdirectory of "Darkness Rising"

If you want to have it in the same folder as camelot.exe, the line should look like this:
@DOLLoader ".\tgame.dll" 81.169.136.116 10300 20 accname password

Please notice the quote marks around tgame.dll and that i used a relative path to the tgame.dll, at least thats how it works. This also means, that if you just write "tgame.dll" it will not work!!!

Now the game should start and connect again - you just have to click ok about the version warning from dolloader. It does work anyway.

I hope i could help the ones stuck with 1.80 and not wanting to reinstall the complete game.

PS: In the German forum, there is the same Manual for those who do not understand English well enough.

Have fun,
Migga

I've heard darkness rising was full of bugs? is this true? or should i install it?

I am using DR at US 1.80 - and I don't have any problems playing.

Btw, Migga, your information is kind of out-dated. Uthgard does support version 1.80. And regarding tgame.dll: Once you have installed DR there are two .exe in the game folder -- camelot.exe (as usual) and camtest.exe (this is used for connecting to the test server). When you are updating your game by starting either of these .exe you'll connect to US server and get the latest version. Usually, tgame.dll is a a bit ahead of game.dll. At the moment of writing we have 1.81 vs. 1.80d.

i cant find tgame file

where is it?

Since it's been a while that I switched to DR, I'm not quite sure: either you get it by installing DR or after you patch your game by starting camtest.exe. It should be located in the same directory as game.dll.

Hi.. I have a question... I have DR 1.81 version. Can i Play with this version in Uthgard? In my loader is this:
@DOLLoader "d:\games\Darkness\tgame.dll" 81.169.136.116 10300 20 name pswd

If i start the game with connect.bat, tha game cant connect to the service and writing retraying three times and after pressing esc finish the game..

Not yet...DOL development doesn't include 1.81. Currently, you can use up to 1.80c.