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OK, I'm going to break this down so that I can get to the bottom of your problem.
Blue Harrier wrote:IGÇÖm having problems with this new GÇÿLauncherGÇÖ and wondered if anyone else is having the same sort of weird happenings?
The Launcher is version 1.03 (top left corner).
If I start the Launcher direct from within its own folder (in the SiSi client), it starts up fine, reports the client is out of date, and tries to download a huge (I would say about 1 Gig) patch, then tries to update my TQ folder. Luckily IGÇÖve had this before and stop it as soon as it starts.
So you have a separate install of the client, in its own folder, and to start the client you go into the launcher subfolder, and start launcher.exe directly? Why do you think it's trying to update your TQ folder? Where is that located? How do you stop the Launcher?
Blue Harrier wrote:The only way I have been able to patch and get on SiSi is to run the old universal patcher and launcher to patch the SiSi client and let it run the Launcher. That way the Launcher starts the SiSi client correctly and I can log in.
By universal patcher do you mean the old Sisi Launcher or the Generic Patch?
Blue Harrier wrote:However last night and again today the Launcher has confused me even further, after clicking the [Play] button I get a quick flash of the Crucible screen, then the Launcher flashes back up again followed by a long wait before the log in screen appears and overwrites it. This took so long last night on my laptop I actually clicked the [Play] button again thinking the client had failed to start and started 2 copies of the client.
The booting of the client has remained unchanged. We've done no changes to the login screen, login animation or anything there, so my gut feeling is that this is simply down to the speed at which your laptop loads the scene, although you do seem to be implying that it loaded slower than usual, which you're attributing to the Launcher.
Blue Harrier wrote:So today after patching as above I log in on my main PC just in time to get booted by an unscheduled closedown (just my luck  ), so I left the Launcher open thinking it would patch the SiSi client as soon as it was back on-line.
You were logging into Sisi and got disconnected? Or was it TQ?
Blue Harrier wrote:No such luck, SiSi was back up, I clicked the [Play] button and off it goes to download the TQ to SiSi blasted patch and update my TQ client yet again. I have now reverted to the old patcher and launcher again and low and behold it worked fine. I give up! I think a very long skill training for the rest of the week would be advisable 
Which old patcher are you referring to? Why do you think it was trying to update your TQ client? Do you mean that it was updating your Sisi client to be compatible with TQ? Please don't give up, I really want to get to the bottom of your issues, and I need your feedback to do just that.
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