World Of Warcraft Launcher Download

I just decided to play World of Warcraft again, and proceeded to download the game. It installed it onto my computer, and I clicked on it. I got the launcher, with the Play button, but it had to do some more downloading. It was on the screen where it says, 1 Setup, 2 Available, and 3 Playable. Blizzard Launcher (the application may actually be called the 'World of Warcraft Launcher') is a utility application introduced with patch 1.8.3 to ostensibly provide news links and a minimal set of pre-launch configuration options for the actual game and the patch downloader. Behind the scenes.

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Launcher utility to help start battle.net games with the steam overlay.

Official page http://madalien.com/stuff/bnetlauncher/

World Of Warcraft Launcher Update

Purpose

This application is intended to facilitate the launch of battle.net games from steam with overlaywhile still being auto logged in by the battle.net client.

Note: If the Battle.net client isn't running when starting the game it will be closed as soon as the game starts, otherwise it will be left running.

Howto Use

1. Extract the included exe to any location you want (ex: steam folder)
2. Add the exe to steam as a non-steam game shortcut
3. On the shortcut properties add one of the following parameters:

code	game
wow	World of Warcraft
d3	Diablo 3
hs	Heartstone
ow	Overwatch
sc2	Starcraft 2
hots	Heroes of the Storm
scr	Starcraft Remastered
w3	Warcraft 3: Reforged
dst2	Destiny 2 (Overlay will not work!!! See notes below)
codbo4	Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
codmw2019	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)

the result should look something like this:

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Destiny 2

Bungie has decided to implement anti-cheat mechanisms that also cause most overlays to not work as expected.

See https://www.bungie.net/en/Help/Article/46101 for more information.If you need SteamController functionality https://alia5.github.io/GloSC/ is currently the best option.

Destiny 2 Setup Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38WKKqd9dKQ

Troubleshooting

In case of problems logging can be enabled by creating a enablelog.txt file inside %localappdata%madalien.combnetlauncher, you can open the location by pasting the path into explorer or the run dialog in windows (WinKey+R)

Aditional options

There's also the following aditional options provided by command line switches:

• --timeout <seconds>, -t <seconds> changes how many seconds it tries to look for the game before giving an error (15 seconds by default).
• --notask, -n starts the launcher directly instead of trying to use a scheduled task
• --leaveopen, -l leaves the client open after launcher the game. If combined with --notask option it will show you as playing on steam until you close the client.

Adding more Games

From v2.00 onward bnetlauncher uses a internal gamedb.ini to control how games are launched.More games or custom configs can be manualy added by creating a gamedb.ini file in:

• %localappdata%madalien.combnetlaunchergamedb.ini
• the directory where the bnetlauncher executable is located.

A gamesdb.ini.sample is distributed with bnetlauncher containing a copy of the built in shortcuts.

Important: Those defaults are not changeable. bnetlauncher will always override them with it's internal gamesdb.ini file. However it is possible to create different entries with custom options.

Exemple entry:

Explaining what each part does:

• [codbo4] the id that's passed to bnetlauncher to select the game ie bnetlauncher.exe codbo4
• name=Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 a friendly name for the game
• client=battlenet the client the game uses, currently only battlenet is supported
• cmd=VIPR command to launch the game in the client
• exe=BlackOps4.exe game exe that bnetlauncher will look for after launch, can use % as a wildcard ie Diablo III%.exeto support 32 and 64 bit builds of the game.
• options=noargs,waitforexit list of comma separated options, currently supported:
  • noargs doesn't throw an error when retrieving blank arguments from the game
  • waitforexit leave bnetlauncher open and waiting until the game existing
  • nolaunch don't directly launch the game but just open the client and try to find the game for an additional 60s this can in theory be used for hacky PTR support.
  • notask doesn't start the client trough a scheduled task

Known Issues

• Destiny 2 will not have Steam Overlay or any associate features when using bnetlauncher. This is intended by Bungie and cannot be fixed. Steam Input users can use https://alia5.github.io/GloSC/ to work around it.
• Enabling multiple instances of battle.net client in it's options might break bnetlauncher functionality.
• Users of MSI Afterburner, Fraps and other overlay software might experience crashes do to incompatibilitywith their own overlay and steam's, to solve the issue disable the 3rd party application overlay.
• The game, bnetlauncher and steam must all have the same running permissions to work properly, this means ifone of them is running has Administrator/Elevated Permissions, then all of them must also be run hasAdministrator/Elevated Permissions.
• It's not possible to automatically launch battle.net client PTR versions of games, the client provides no directoption to do this, however a workaround can be done by creating a new game entry and the nolaunch option and manualy clicking play.
• Default launching the client trough a scheduled task may be incompatible with some setups, workaround is providade with notask switch/option.
• Starting multiple copies of Startcraft Remastered may cause bnetlauncher to show an error since the game only allowsone instance to be run at the same time.
• There's no built in routine to clean up the log files if they pile up (logging is disabled by default)

Uninstalling

To remove all traces of bnetlauncher from your system:

• type 'Task Scheduler' in start menu and open it, expand library and delete bnetlauncher folder to remove the tasks used to start the client
• type %localappdata%madalien.com in start menu and open the folder, delete bnetlauncher folder to remove log and gamedb.ini files

Requirements

• Windows 7 SP1 or above (Only really tested on Windows 10)
• .Net Framework 4.7.2 (already included in Windows 10 April 2018 Update [Version 1803] or above). Download link: https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/dotnet-framework-runtime

Special Thanks

internet coder Maruf for ghost tray icon fix codegithub Ethan-BB for the new parameters to launch games on battle.net.github RobFreiburger and iMintty for Starcraft Remastered and Destiny 2 support respectively./u/fivetwofoureight for creating and allowing me to use his icon./u/malecden, Maverick, /u/sumphatguy and others for their help pointing out bugs.

A simple to use Windows widget that launches World of Warcraft from the sidebar while also displaying a high quality logo of the game

WoW Launcher is a lightweight gadget that really doesn’t need any introduction as to what it does.

Whether you’re a gamer or not, you’re bound to immediately figure out that WoW Launcher can be used to run the popular World Of Warcraft game from your desktop.

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As it is normal with all Windows gadgets, WoW Launcher does not require any sophisticated installation. You simply run it and it is displayed on your computer screen. You can then reposition it anywhere you want and with one click, run the game.

There’s not much to speak of in terms of graphic user interface. The gadget is only comprised of the logo for the World of Warcraft Cataclysm release and can not be changed.

This however does not mean that WoW Launcher works just with that version. The widget allows you to target the wow.exe file from where the game is installed and creates a shortcut to it. Once it’s set, every time you click the widget, the game is launched regardless of the version you have installed.

Using the gadget is simple and straightforward and if you’re not keen on creating classic desktop shortcuts for games, then WoW Launcher is just right for you. The only major setback for it is the fact that Windows widgets have been discontinued due to user security reasons so you can’t expect any updates for it.

To sum things up, WoW Launcher that has a place on every computer with World of Warcraft but since widgets are less and less popular, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes obsolete and impractical.

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WoW Launcher was reviewed by Alexandru Chirila

3.5/5

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