Try the Impulse Preview

By Draginol Posted March 26, 2008 21:51:38

Want to try out the latest beta preview of Impulse?

You can get it here:

http://storage.stardock.com/files/Impulse_setup.exe

FAQ:

What is Impulse? Impulse is Stardock's successor to Stardock Central. It is designed to merge all of Stardock's various digital networks into a single platform (TotalGaming.net, WinCustomize.com, and Object Desktop.net). With it, users can buy, download and update a wide variety of software.
Will Impulse replace Stardock Central? Eventually. But we expect to keep both going for a long time so that fans of Stardock Central don't feel pushed to get Impulse.
What will be on Impulse? Eventually, everything. Right now, it's mostly Stardock titles and a handful of indie games. With Impulse, we are opening it up to all publishers of all venues - games, utilities, applications. On the games side, we expect parity with Steam and Direct2Drive by the end of 2008. On the non-game side, we hope to have most major utilities and a number of major applications available on it.
Does Impulse have DRM? Impulse does not use DRM as it's traditionally thought of. It uses a technology called SSD (Secure Software Delivery) which ensures that the content is transferred to the user in secure form. Users are able to install their games onto multiple machines using their accounts within reason (the system does evaluate geographic locations of multiple installs and a number of other metrics to flag possible "warez" accounts). Stardock is also working on a new technology tentatively called Secure Virtual Machines (SVM). More information on SVMs will be released later. Overall, Impulse is largely invisible to users. They do not need an Internet connection to play games, they can re-download the full retail game from it even if they purchased it elsewhere, and there is no "phoning home" during the launch of games.

This preview is designed to test out usability as well as find bugs prior to release that may have slipped past us. We have an extensive feature set prepared for Impulse that will be delivered over the coming months. We are still getting the final kinks out, however and the Impulse Store and Website are being overhauled from what is in the beta.

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I had to uninstall reboot and then reinstall, but now it shows ip update, but no update link, just a run button , ...soooo... while it looks fixed...

but no update link, just a run button

Same problem.

+ Preferences > checkBox1 >> Euh, What is it?

I must say this is the best software I have seen for Windows in a long time. Really neat that you have integrated whole Stardock into the client itself. Something that Steam does not.

Birger

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The current integration between Impulse and TGN isn't complete:

- you can't purchase TGN token (contrary to what you can do on the Stardock store Website)

- you can't purchase download only version. For Example, SoaSE is only listed as the version with the shipped DVD (49.95 $ + S/H) .

- Some bundled versions aren't available on Impulse, like the GC1 ultimate edition or GC2 gold.

- for some reason, Impulse correctly detects that I have GC2 installed on my computer but not DA. But they both appears as installed with SDC.

Hi Peace, good to see ya so to speak.

Re DA and Twilight... there's a Path entry missing in the registry. Probably wasn't needed by SDC. See Hollow Man's post page (?) or my post on Page 11 of this thread: WWW Link

I think this is a great improvement that I seen in a long time. Better graphic's and user ability. Keep up the great work and best wishes for the future.

Is it me or is the Registrations tab extremely fugly?

is anyone else is getting a virus warning (password-Protected-Exe (modification))when running Impulse I'm using kasperky lates definitions

In reading all the posts on Impulse it seem everyone who runs kasperky is getting that warning.

This doesn't seem to like working through a proxy server... When I run it on my laptop at work it just refuses to connect, but it does at home with no problems... Apart from the who password-protected file thing that my Kaspersky is throwing up anyway. I can't find anywhere to check the internet settings like there was in SDC either so I'm guessing that it doesn't just take its connection settings straight from IE

why would a png image in impulse be password protected?

A fix to the IconPackager no update button problem: click the Run button and it should be replaced by Update

Great Job
its going to be better than steam

keep up the good work

I just got a new computer, so I used only Impulse for installing all stardock stuff. Initial install went fine, Impulse loaded and registered just fine. It actually showed that I had OD ultimate. I had a problem with Windowblinds, though. It installed fine, but I had a lot of trouble loading any skins. I should note this is on a dual core machine, 2gb ram, Vista home prem. I finally got WB to load skins, but it was acting very funny. Then, impulse showed an update for WB. It would update, and ask for a reboot. Then on reboot, it asked for the update again. Did that a few times, and got sick of it. So, I installed SDC, updated WB, and all problems went away.

Thought I would pass it on, just in case it helps.

We had some installation issues with WB 6.02 on Impulse. WB 6.03 is being staged and should be up tomorrow. Please try again with WB 6.03. Thanks.

Since Impulse is close to being launched I am redirecting this thread here:

http://forums.stardock.com/307180

Please use this support forum to provide feedback on Impulse in one location. Thanks!