Skipping Download Loading Screens??

[Anthorians]

Hello,everytime i open DDO,it starts downloading in EN DE FR the loading screens and splash arts,every f*cking time and it takes around 10-20 minutes...i'm really tired of this,is there a way to skip this useless thing?

[Tessienne]

Right click on DDO in your library
Select Properties
Select Set Launch Options
In the box that appears type -skiprawdownload

That's it, it will skip the downloads when you launch

Edit: I wish this was stickied somewhere, a lot of people ask about this on the DDO forums too.

[Equilibrium]

I like
"C:\Turbine\Dungeons & Dragons Online\TurbineLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash

[Running-Target]

Originally posted by Tessienne:

Right click on DDO in your library
Select Properties
Select Set Launch Options
In the box that appears type -skiprawdownload

That's it, it will skip the downloads when you launch

Edit: I wish this was stickied somewhere, a lot of people ask about this on the DDO forums too.

Originally posted by Equilibrium:

I like
"C:\Turbine\Dungeons & Dragons Online\TurbineLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash

i didn't know you could do that.

[Anthorians]

Originally posted by Tessienne:

Right click on DDO in your library
Select Properties
Select Set Launch Options
In the box that appears type -skiprawdownload

That's it, it will skip the downloads when you launch

Edit: I wish this was stickied somewhere, a lot of people ask about this on the DDO forums too.

Oh omg,really really thank you! Finally it starts in 15 seconds instead of 20 minutes! Thank you very much!

[Doug]

Originally posted by rynerlute959:

Originally posted by Tessienne:

Right click on DDO in your library
Select Properties
Select Set Launch Options
In the box that appears type -skiprawdownload

That's it, it will skip the downloads when you launch

Edit: I wish this was stickied somewhere, a lot of people ask about this on the DDO forums too.

Oh omg,really really thank you! Finally it starts in 15 seconds instead of 20 minutes! Thank you very much!

Learned something new. Be aware that without the splash screens, you won't get the primary notice of new stuff. It's far from fatal, but you might want to ensure you're covered elsewhere (Forums, DDOWiki, DDO's Twitter, guildmates, even reading the launcher news will help).

[Tessienne]

Originally posted by rynerlute959:

Oh omg,really really thank you! Finally it starts in 15 seconds instead of 20 minutes! Thank you very much!

You're very welcome. Have fun.

[Carryonnaire]

Originally posted by Tessienne:

Right click on DDO in your library
Select Properties
Select Set Launch Options
In the box that appears type -skiprawdownload

That's it, it will skip the downloads when you launch

Edit: I wish this was stickied somewhere, a lot of people ask about this on the DDO forums too.

Originally posted by Equilibrium:

I like
"C:\Turbine\Dungeons & Dragons Online\TurbineLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash

That really works. I just started playing this game, but already searched half internet for this solution. It seems that this trouble is world-wide known for whole 5 years and was reported to devs directly many times, but still remains

[Krazuka]

this worked wonders for me, until the current version, now it doesnt work for me...

[Doug]

Originally posted by Krazuka:

this worked wonders for me, until the current version, now it doesnt work for me...

Been noticing that myself. Not sure what's changed.

[Equilibrium]

Originally posted by Doug:

Originally posted by Krazuka:

this worked wonders for me, until the current version, now it doesnt work for me...

Been noticing that myself. Not sure what's changed.

Works for me. Windows 10.

[Doug]

Originally posted by Equilibrium:

Originally posted by Doug:

Been noticing that myself. Not sure what's changed.

Works for me. Windows 10.

Been working for me for close to a year (note my comment from 17 Dec 2017). Stopped working with the latest update, even though the arguments are still present on the launch line. And yes, I use Win10.

[Doug]

Originally posted by Doug:

Originally posted by Krazuka:

this worked wonders for me, until the current version, now it doesnt work for me...

Been noticing that myself. Not sure what's changed.

Note: I don't launch DDO via Steam. Not sure what those who do will experience differently.

Here's what I've learned. My shortcut used to point to this
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Turbine\Dungeons & Dragons Online\TurbineLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash

And that no longer skips the splash screens and 10 screens per language. However, I noticed that there's an executable called DNDLauncher. If I invoke it with the same command line arguments:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Turbine\Dungeons & Dragons Online\DNDLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash

Voila. I once again skip the unnecessary downloads.

TurbineLauncher is about 400K in size. DNDLauncher is more like 1.5MB. I think Standing Stone got tired of the main executable referencing the game's previous owners, so they renamed it. Then, to keep people's installs from breaking, they made a new TurbineLauncher that's basically just a stub to pass control on to DNDLauncher. And that stub doesn't pass along the command line arguments. That's my best guess as to what's happened, anyway.

(Use at own risk. YMMV. Let me know if this works for anyone else. If Steam updated the laucher automatically, those who run DDO through Steam and put the command line arguments in Steam might not have encountered the issue.)

[Vrakyas]

Here is a workaround until it gets fixed.
Enter the following into the "Set Launch Option" field:

"<path to DDO>\DNDLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash %command%

(don't miss the quotation marks in the path!)

So my personal launch options are:
"E:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dungeons and Dragons Online\DNDLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash %command%

[Doug]

Originally posted by Vrakyas:

Here is a workaround until it gets fixed.
Enter the following into the "Set Launch Option" field:

"<path to DDO>\DNDLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash %command%

(don't miss the quotation marks in the path!)

So my personal launch options are:
"E:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dungeons and Dragons Online\DNDLauncher.exe" -skiprawdownload -nosplash %command%

If you launch from Steam, all you should need to do is right-click the launcher in your library, and go to Properties - Set Launch Options and put in -skiprawdownload -nosplash

[Vrakyas]

No this doesn't work anymore since the U40 update, that's why I posted this workaround.