Your Launcher Sucks

[Ihateeverybody]

Launchers in General Suck. Hey what do EA, Ubisoft, Paradox, Activision and now (I can't even spell your name Larieat or something) you have in common. You have seen the last money from me. Never going to buy another product from you.

Yep you made it onto my no buy ever again list. Good Job. Usually it takes Several Games. Ubisoft was the only other Company I decided after one game to boycott.

So way to go. (Don't feel to bad, I don't think I was even remotely interested in your past games or any future games and my opinion on BG3 is already in place at this point.)

[breadman]

it's entirely optional, not a drm like ubi/ea

just add "--skip-launcher" to launch command

so calm down and stop being a drama queen

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Your Launcher Sucks
Launchers in General Suck. Hey what do EA, Ubisoft, Paradox, Activision and now (I can't even spell your name Larieat or something) you have in common. You have seen the last money from me. Never going to buy another product from you.

Yep you made it onto my no buy ever again list. Good Job. Usually it takes Several Games. Ubisoft was the only other Company I decided after one game to boycott.

So way to go. (Don't feel to bad, I don't think I was even remotely interested in your past games or any future games and my opinion on BG3 is already in place at this point.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3015166965

[Ihateeverybody]

Originally posted by breadman:

it's entirely optional, not a drm like ubi/ea

just add "--skip-launcher" to launch command

so calm down and stop being a drama queen

So you are saying instead of Launching the game Directly. Pressing the Executable or Play button in Steam.

1. I have to wait for the Launcher to start.
2. Close out any notifications.
3. Get past the login (Skip)
4. Press Play.

What benefit does the Launcher bring vs the Incoveniences I listed.

[Sean8102]

LOL.

Just launch the EXE for the game directly then. You can even still choose DX 11 or vulkan since that have sep EXE's

Go to install directory, and send a shortcut to the desktop for both versions. Done

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Originally posted by breadman:

it's entirely optional, not a drm like ubi/ea

just add "--skip-launcher" to launch command

so calm down and stop being a drama queen

So you are saying instead of Launching the game Directly. Pressing the Executable or Play button in Steam.

1. I have to wait for the Launcher to start.
2. Close out any notifications.
3. Get past the login (Skip)
4. Press Play.

What benefit does the Launcher bring vs the Incoveniences I listed.

You have not actually tried out what breadman tried to help you with, did you?

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Originally posted by breadman:

it's entirely optional, not a drm like ubi/ea

just add "--skip-launcher" to launch command

so calm down and stop being a drama queen

So you are saying instead of Launching the game Directly. Pressing the Executable or Play button in Steam.

1. I have to wait for the Launcher to start.
2. Close out any notifications.
3. Get past the login (Skip)
4. Press Play.

What benefit does the Launcher bring vs the Incoveniences I listed.

Oh my stars, you poor thing.

Four whole steps? Four whole clicks? Heavens above, you must be a saint to put up with that absolute ordeal.

[fox]

Stick to the Nintendo Switch

[YeekMonkey]

I found that as of today, attempting to launch bg3_dx11 directly still forces the player to the Larian Launcher.

Fortunately, I also found that the information I'd seen on several sites about "skip launcher" from within Steam, which had never worked for me, had the syntax wrong. (To be clear, it's rendered correctly in this thread.)

[Ihateeverybody]

Originally posted by breadman:

it's entirely optional, not a drm like ubi/ea

just add "--skip-launcher" to launch command

so calm down and stop being a drama queen

Thanks. That worked.

But I am still going to be pissed off at the Company that keeps calling me every 5 minutes to sell me more stuff. Their staying on the list.

[Wasted]

Originally posted by fox:

Stick to the Nintendo Switch

Probably has too many steps to resume a game.

[L3wt]

This poor fool thought it was mandatory! LOL. I'm guessing you have all Windows spyware options still turned on as well..Reckon I could get you to try out a few free programs for me?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Originally posted by breadman:

it's entirely optional, not a drm like ubi/ea

just add "--skip-launcher" to launch command

so calm down and stop being a drama queen

Thanks. That worked.

But I am still going to be pissed off at the Company that keeps calling me every 5 minutes to sell me more stuff. Their staying on the list.

See? No need for drama.

[PickONer]

Launchers are stupid. Steam should ban them once and for all.

[IceReaper]

I also hate custom launchers for obscure drm reasons.. However, before raging, i do my homework. In this case the launcher purely is - a launcher. It does not do much at all. Basicaly its a .NET 6 application, not even obfuscated, so i read the whole source code. What it effectively does is to start the game .exe with some command line arguments.

The most interesting stuff i could find is currently:
- It has some usefull small helpers for people without common computer skills
- It does the dx11 / vulkan switch for the user to not need to struggle with finding the proper .exe
- For BG3, there is a special "-modded" parameter, which is set to 0 or 1, depending on wether mods have been detected.
- It checks for the gpu driver, as its a common problem people spam the support tickets using an ancient gpu driver.

So it looks like a quite good utility for launching the game so far, and defenitely helps them and a the users avoiding a lot of absolute beginner issues. Especialy not encrypting it, shows a LOT of transparency to the user. Its defenitely not some kind of wacky origin / ea / ubisoft drm crap. So this is one launcher im totaly okay with :)

[SmegAu]

hah update broke my shortcut, had to redo ;o