Steam start dialog

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Why do I still have Elite:Dangerious AND Elite:Horizons in my start window when I click Play on steam?

Why not just have Elite:Horizons since it has both? It's just annying to have to select it every time I launch.

Can you please just launch the game launcher or show the latest installed? I see no point in listing old versions if I have later DLC installed.

The choice should be selected from my account settings on what I have paid for and installed no?

Why have different binaries in the first place? A single binary should cover all content and the access determined by the account.

[Mdgrim]

The choice of E:D and Horizons is there so if you are stuck on the surface of a planet, via a glitch or whatnot, you can launch base E:D and be teleported back into space near the planet.

[22Ƹ 🌟]

i think your drunk on new years day!

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Originally posted by Mdgrim:

The choice of E:D and Horizons is there so if you are stuck on the surface of a planet, via a glitch or whatnot, you can launch base E:D and be teleported back into space near the planet.

Sounds like a hack job.

Meh.

[Wolf]

Originally posted by The Muppet Surgery Special:

Why do I still have Elite:Dangerious AND Elite:Horizons in my start window when I click Play on steam?

Why not just have Elite:Horizons since it has both? It's just annying to have to select it every time I launch.

Can you please just launch the game launcher or show the latest installed? I see no point in listing old versions if I have later DLC installed.

The choice should be selected from my account settings on what I have paid for and installed no?

Why have different binaries in the first place? A single binary should cover all content and the access determined by the account.

if you just choose the 1st selection, it will always open the horizons launcher :)

[MyGutFeeling]

If I wanted to play ED on my laptop, I would have to launch the base game as my laptop can no longer launch horizons since 2.2 update. So this works for me

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

They should move every option into the launcher and have it launch that from Steam. Simpler.

If we want something we can add a command line option if necessary.

Is there a command line to automatically launch the launcher that I can use to bypass this dialog? I don't like it sorry.

[xandernotbuffy]

The Steam dialog is there to allow you to select the VR version which would put Steam into VR mode.
Selecting either Dangerous or Horizons will start the same Frontier launcher and Horizons will be the first entry selected. So if you don't touch anything and just click the default selections its two clicks to get into the default game which is Horizons 64.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Originally posted by xandernotbuffy:

The Steam dialog is there to allow you to select the VR version which would put Steam into VR mode.
Selecting either Dangerous or Horizons will start the same Frontier launcher and Horizons will be the first entry selected. So if you don't touch anything and just click the default selections its two clicks to get into the default game which is Horizons 64.

They could move these options into the launcher.

What are the available steam command line options I can use to control which I want to launch automatically?

If there is command line options I can use those myself. I don't care why they do it. I want to be able to set it up for my needs.

[xandernotbuffy]

I suppose you could manually add a new game to Steam and point it at the launcher .exe
Then change the start parameters to /edh to always launch Horizons so there would be no other options available in the drop down list.
I don't know wether there is a method to tell the Frontier launcher to automatically start the game without a button click though.

[Paramnesia]

The oculus home version does this. The launcher still opens but it also automatically launches the game (unless something went wrong)
There was a powershell script kicking around awhile ago that let you bypass the launcher (still had to run it once to get the auth). Not sure if that still works, or ever did (personally never tried it)

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Frontier developments has generally been terrible and slow at integrating with the Steam environment given it is a tiny player base launching via Steam. It really is a second rate experience.

[funkynutz]

The Horizons option in the steam popup is an obsolete left over from when Horizons was a standalone client.

You can just launch the base game from steam, and you'll still get the Horizons launcher come up anyway (where you can actually choose between the base game or Horizons). It's one less click :p

There are valid reasons for launching the base game (I have landed somewhere with a bump of rock that meant my SRV deployed below the surface of the planet before now), so you do still want the option available.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Originally posted by -FuNkY-:

You can just launch ed from steam, and you'll still get the Horizons launcher come up anyway (where you can actually choose between the base game or Horizons).

The Horizons option in the steam popup is an obsolete left over from when Horizons was a standalone client.

Excuses are not a solution.

You're welcome to spend all day making up excuses for a company you don't work for, but in the end, that does not solve the problem.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

/EDH command line option doesn't work.

Has anybody ran Strings utility on the binary to see the options available?

[funkynutz]

"Excuses"? https://media.giphy.com/media/VUdLlDsKlQi5i/giphy.gif

If I was making excuses I'd be trying to explain away why they haven't removed an option that's been obsolete for about a year https://media.giphy.com/media/TejaUddCgwgMw/giphy.gif

FAO FDEV: it probably is time to look at tidying it up a bit ;)

It's not a big deal though, it doesn't get in the way of the game. OK that's a bit excusey :p

As for multiple binaries, the 64 bit versions of both the base game and Horizons use the same x64 binary.

The 32 bit version is a separate binary (it has to be, there's no way around that), but you can safely delete the entire 32 bit folder if you're not going to use the 32 bit version of the game.

Apparently if you install the game through Frontier's launcher, you can select which parts to download and install. Steam on the other hand downloads everything.

The "/EDH command line option" is another obsolete reference to when Horizons was a standalone client. Isn't needed anymore, doesn't do anything.