NoCheckVersion not supported since 10.6.1.1005

1st Official Post

    It seems that in 10.6.1.1005 update today the NoCheckVersion got broken?


    It has been working so since the beginning of times:

    path\Client.exe NoCheckVersion

    allowed starting the client without starting the launcher first. This meant

    (1) a bit less memory usage (no launcher)

    (2) one less click

    (3) but also if my intention was to start 2 clients I was able to do this right away; now you have to wait until launcher loads and only then start again or find the launcher in the quick-icons etc.


    If the version did not match the server then you had to start the launcher to trigger updates. But otherwise life was simpler, faster. It's just a small convenience thing, but really, why remove it?????


    (If you say was not a specified feature and so it is not a real 100% bug, then please consider this ticket as a "suggestion for a new feature". the suggestion being: please make it work again, make it possible to start a client bypassing the launcher, just as it has always been possible.)

    • Official Post

    It wasn't a documented, but development intended feature.

    It's been intentionally removed with a recent patch to avoid some user-side issues caused by using it.

    We needed few other changes to be done before it goes live, that's why it took a place now.

    We are constantly developing and improving launcher, and would like players to use it for several reasons.

    Recent news, clients updates, addons management, server status, base consistency files check upon launch.

    These are just a few, but we want to add way more in the future, possibly including login to character via launcher.


    Regarding points, you brought:

    1. Launcher is using ~80mb, it's not much nowadays (less than 1% of common user RAM, 5% of game RAM).

    2/3. We added an option to disable launcher minimizing after client started, so you can start multiple clients immediately.

    If you prefer it to be minimized, we added start client option directly from right mouse click on tray icon.


    We aren't currently planning to change this behavior.

    Thank you for your feedback.

  • Moderator

    Closed the thread.

  • Moderator

    Changed the title of the thread from “NoCheckVersion broken in 10.6.1.1005” to “NoCheckVersion not supported since 10.6.1.1005”.