How to disable plugin loader "intro"

[Amroth]

When I launch the plugin intro, there is this rectangle window (just like SE itself has) before starting. Well, I have to close that window twice before the game ACTUALLY launches.

Is there a way to disable that so running plugin launcher once will start the game?

[Quill]

Sounds like an issue. It should open SE without any input

Uninstall Plug-in loader and reinstall it. Verify Game file integrity for SE

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, I never used Plugin Loader so I will not be a good help but one shared a video Tuto and you could ask him if it's possible to remove the small window.

Video Tuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76pIEdxnfDg

[Jack Schitt]

Without plugin loader -novid in the launch options does it. At least it used to. I used that for years before I started using PluginLoader.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_line_options#Steam_.28Windows.29

[Jack Schitt]

You mean the plugin loader's intro itself? You can't disable that _and_ have plugins work. If you want to play without plugins use the SpaceEngineers.exe (or a shortcut to it) instead of SpaceEngineersLauncher.exe

the exe with launcher in its name is for plugin loader.

[Amroth]

No no, I do want to play with plugins, but when I launch the game through the plugin launcher, I get the rectangular plugin window, which does nothing. The game doesn't start no matter how long I wait.

Here's what I have to do to start the game:

- Double click SE plugin launcher
- I see a small rectangular plugin intro window. It never goes away, game doesn't launch.
- I close the plugin window from the taskbar
- Now I get the small rectangular SE intro window
- The window closes after some seconds and plugin window comes back
- I close the plugin window again the same way
- Small SE window comes back for a few seconds...
- The game finally launches

I'm wondering if there's a way to skip that entire sequence so I can double click on plugin launcher and it starts the game by itself without input

[Jack Schitt]

Have you ever updated PluginLoader? If you haven't that's probably your problem:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/3823034248726265986/

[Amroth]

I've only installed the PluginLoader from github 2 days ago (and it did update once since then). The launch options are empty.

[Jack Schitt]

Ok. Did you check to see that your security features like anti-virus and all the Windows features are set to allow it / not interrupt it?

[Jack Schitt]

How much time have you given the launcher to complete its processes? It sometimes takes my computer a good 20 minutes to get from desktop to in a game.

[Amroth]

I've waited a good 5 minutes :/ But the game itself launches less than 10 seconds after its rectangle window disappears

PluginLauncher's rectangle window just... sits there. I have to close it manually 2 times before the game starts. If I don't close, I'll be sitting there forever.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by REALRACE:

novid seems not to work on my side, skipintro yes
(i had to replace those eleven videos manually ...)

They mean the plugin intro, not the game intro. I'm doubting there's a way to skip that intro _and_ still use plugins. That launcher is what loads plugins into the game...

Avaness, the author of PluginLoader, has a discord channel. Try there:
https://discord.gg/mbzsbFK or avaness#6635

[Amroth]

Oh well, thank you~