Daniel Whateley
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Posted - 2013.07.12 00:43:00 -
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We still have the launcher issue, it's regarded with the "shortcut" eve creates for the launcher to start, it's named the actual launcher update to force it to start, and... i can no longer manage to launch the launcher now as i didn't pin the old shortcut to my task bar, so no i have no idea what to put into the shortcut name, i can't find any patch notes thread for the launcher...
Upon updating it downloads correctly, then restarts the launcher, possibly for the wrong version, then it tries updating but the files are already there , so it keeps flashing back and forth from "downloading update" to "installing" rapidly..
It must have something to do with the shortcut, for instance my old shortcut says
Target:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE\launcher\appdata\EVE_Online_Launcher-2.1.559197.win32\launcher.exe"
Starts in:
""C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE\launcher\appdata\EVE_Online_Launcher-2.1.559197.win32""
which is the old launcher which is no longer working as it's obsolete, and the only way i can get it to fix is downloading the whole launcher over again by using the launcher repair tool.
Whenever i launch the old launcher it will say "offline mode" - it could be 1 of thousands of things doing it, but one thing i know is that restarting the launcher and computer to restart all processes will let it work correctly the second time makes it work correctly, and when i went looking for the updated launcher version only the old one was there.
so possibly it doesn't commence the install phase of the launcher? but the second time it does, also when i launched the old launcher from my taskbar from where it was pinned and when i go looking for the new update it doesn't show, so either launching the shortcut deletes the new content, or the new content gets downloaded but not installed due to some random error.
I've fixed my issue and repinned the new one and removed the old one from my taskbar, but every time i update it wont launch my launcher correctly or it takes a while
however i am launching the launcher update from the folder "EVE_Online_Launcher-2.1.559197.win32" so maybe the issue lies with pinning it to the task bar? - so..... now i have to have 3 eves pinned to the task bar? 
I think the next step is to create a windows localized installer which only needs 1 item pinned to the taskbar, there must be a way you can have the client, launcher, and updated launcher work in the same taskbar tab? i do have an idea however, just change the "starts in:" to the "ccp\eve" folder" |