Some questions about Battle.net Launcher (commandline params, newspage on web)
Hi! I have a few questions about the battle.net Launcher and hope someone might know more about it.
I wondered if the "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" is only available in old installations before the Battle.net Launcher was introduced or does every copy of WoW have this file in the game directory? It would be great if some people could check and tell me so I know if it is reliable to use this file to launch the bnet launcher (used for my new WoW Launcher 2). Does anyone know if the Battle.net launcher supports command line parameters to launch with a specific game or page (shop/news) open? Or can you start a scan&repair action for a game with them? And finally, does anyone know if/how you can access the builtin newspage? The old launchers had a normal website which could be opened in any browser. But does anyone know the location/URL of the new newspage from b.net launcher? regards, Bl4ckSh33p |
If memory serves, it was just "Launcher.exe" before bnet. But it doesn't matter, since every installation of the game (legal ones, anyway) call it "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" now. Don't make your program backwards compatible, as that creates headaches for you, users, and possibly would support private servers. You don't want any of those.
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Ok, thanks. Then I will execute the "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" to launch the Battle.net Launcher with WoW open (since there seems to be no commandline params available or known, yet).
I just tried to launch WoW via WoW.exe and WoW-64.exe but it seems the Launcher is always run first. Does anyone know how to skip it to get into the game immediately? |
You can in the Battle.net launcher specify application parameters for each game yes, if that's what you meant.
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Yes, I know about this. But I wanted to know if someone knows a param to start the game without launching the battle.net launcher first. Clicking on WoW.exe opens the Launcher for me (after a while). :confused:
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Unless there is some secret, hidden, unknown way, I don't think it is possible to run without the launcher anymore. (Even for Diablo, Hearthstone, etc.)
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The last time I had tried that (without the Launcher already running) I ran into the same thing that Bl4ckSh33p just said was happening - the launcher would start up first.
Though now it does seem to be working for me. /shrug |
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The other option would be simply to delete the Battle.net launcher, though that's probably not a good option in a program you intend to distribute to the public. |
I was going off of this:
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Yeah the launcher is needed to load the game as the new filesystem Blizzard uses has a dependency on it. (had to crack the code to figure out why mysef as the launcher doesn't run well in Wine)
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D3 uses "-launch" command line switch to skip battle.net app. Wow should skip it without any additional command line switches (still WoW probably supports "-launch" switch too). There's also "-config" switch (this one seems to be quite new) for wow.exe that allows specify config file name that replaces settings from "wtf\config.wtf". This allows you to have one game installation with different settings (monitor, resolution etc). I don't see "-config" switch mentioned anywhere, so I leave it here. |
Thanks. I tried -launch for WoW-64.exe but it seems it does not like it. :D
It launched a black screen and alt+tab or ctrl+alt+del did not work and it was stuck until I shut off my computer. |
To add onto this thread, it is possible to launch through Bnet without having it open the battle.net gui.
You can create a shortcut and have the URL point to battlenet://WoW This works for all of the other bnet games as well: Code:
battlenet://Hero WTCG - hearthstone So for example, |
Does somebody know the battlenet:// link for Destiny 2?
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