I think I found it, in Frontier store under my downloadable products. But all I see is a couple of Premium beta downloadables from 2014. I'm not sure if I should download that launcher?
Forced download via Steam
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That's the one, it always links to the current launcher, don't know why they keep it listed like that.
Go to your installation directory (<drive letter>:\somethingsomething\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous) and launch EDLaunch.exe manually. I think Steam has some kind of "browse local files" function to open the game directory.
Thanks. For whatever reason, I can't use either of the links. My screen flashes briefly, but nothing happens.I think if you download the alpha/beta launcher from FD that's always the current one.
The direct link is:
From here:
Frontier 'Standalone Launcher' Missing Live Content | FIXED
Had to download from the store and all is fine, bit shocked it does not auto update. You new here then? ;)forums.frontier.co.uk
Hm. Ok. Thanks again.
Can't explain that sorry, just worked on a different browser for me.
Thanks Helmut. I'll have to give that a look/try also.
Anyway, thanks guys. This community has never ceased to amaze me. A lovely bunch.
Version 1.7.6926.10Hm. Ok. Thanks again.
Edit: Helmut's suggestion might be easier
To make it more complicated: Just make sure the CMDR account you log into standalone is the one where your Steam CMDR is linked to (in case you have multiple ). Also, if you move away from Steam, you will lose access to bonus and preorder content. I found out the hard way; I wanted to get away from steam and actually bought another license for my main account and lost access to both the Odyssey pre-order Pioneer suit (not your concern) as well as the Azure paints we got when Horizons was folded into the base game. Not a biggie, but you should know.
As a side effect, my CMDR can now log in via Steam or standalone via Frontier.
). Also, if you move away from Steam, you will lose access to bonus and preorder content. I found out the hard way; I wanted to get away from steam and actually bought another license for my main account and lost access to both the Odyssey pre-order Pioneer suit (not your concern) as well as the Azure paints we got when Horizons was folded into the base game. Not a biggie, but you should know.As a side effect, my CMDR can now log in via Steam or standalone via Frontier.
This was interesting. I created a shortcut to the game via your advice, and dragged it to my windows desktop. Using the shortcut starts the game without Steam, but it doesn't give me an option to choose VR or not. It seems to default to VR, but as my VR wasn't turned on, it loaded pancake instead. Which is actually a nice feature.
Thanks Helmut!
But the question remains. Can I delete Oddity/Horizons without it downloading over and over at every update?
I suppose I should just keep the complete installation as I have the space anyway. Stop creating problems for myself?
I think I'll settle down and enjoy my new shortcut.
With Legacy, I could uninstall it and it would keep that way until I launched Steam the next time . But you can either ignore or maybe pause the Steam update if you don't plan to launch or update via Steam anymore. It might be the same now that Live is the default, but in reverse.
The launcher listens to the /vr and /novr command line switches; just add them to your shortcut. Right click the shortcut, select properties, edit the target. Make sure to put the sommand line option inside the quotation marks.
. But you can either ignore or maybe pause the Steam update if you don't plan to launch or update via Steam anymore. It might be the same now that Live is the default, but in reverse.The launcher listens to the /vr and /novr command line switches; just add them to your shortcut. Right click the shortcut, select properties, edit the target. Make sure to put the sommand line option inside the quotation marks.
Oh I get that too. Only side effect is that SteamVR starts and complains that my headset was not found.as my VR wasn't turned on, it loaded pancake instead. Which is actually a nice feature.
Ah yes, the good old "editing the target properties with the appropriate command line switches". Why didn't I think of that...
Enough!
I need a rest.
I need a rest.
That has always been my assumption. My ranting and raving about this when the new launcher was first announced is well documented in the Legacy League thread, so I won't rehash it here, except to say, "Yep, this is what I expected."
I will offer the advice that if drive space is NOT an issue, you may want to just keep Odyssey installed, so that you're not downloading 50 GB every time an update is released, but rather a much smaller update patch instead. Just pretend Legacy is a 70 GB game
In theory it is possible for Steam to only download parts of a game if they're marked as DLC, allowing the user to untick the DLC box to uninstall the content. Halo MCC does ths with each Halo game "DLC" in that you can untick the games you don't want updated or downloaded but you'll still be able to play the other ones. Elite Dangerous might be too complex in how it handles files shared amongst the game versions, so this approach probably wouldn't work for that.
Ideally you'd want Steam to handle downloading updates through Steam so most players stay updated automatically and don't overload Frontier's servers on launch days, while not updating players using legacy mode only. However, the launcher can't control what Steam does. There is a possible workaround and that could be for the devs to make a "beta" branch of Elite Dangerous that includes the launcher and the Legacy client but not Odyssey/Horizons 4.0. Other games use the beta branches for multiple versions of a game. Unsure if it would be useful here, though. I don't know the code or how files in Elite Dangerous are set up.
Ideally you'd want Steam to handle downloading updates through Steam so most players stay updated automatically and don't overload Frontier's servers on launch days, while not updating players using legacy mode only. However, the launcher can't control what Steam does. There is a possible workaround and that could be for the devs to make a "beta" branch of Elite Dangerous that includes the launcher and the Legacy client but not Odyssey/Horizons 4.0. Other games use the beta branches for multiple versions of a game. Unsure if it would be useful here, though. I don't know the code or how files in Elite Dangerous are set up.
I appreciate the input, but I think I'm going to settle on 70GB Legacy.
Well yeah, not much the end user can do about it in this case.I appreciate the input, but I think I'm going to settle on 70GB Legacy.
Just posting here because I think it's funny I'm on Epic and seem to have the opposite problem.
Since update 15, Epic wants to re-download 20.6 GB, if I'm not mistaken that's the exact size of the Legacy folder I deleted to free up space.
I managed to circumvent Epic by launching Elite with a python script that opens a browser window with a basic HTML page that has my auth code, which I copy and paste into a python text box, which then sends that info to the Frontier Launcher, which only updates whichever version is selected.
Since the Launcher Update, I'm not sure if the python script is actually necessary anymore, but the two times I've tried to open the Frontier Launcher without it, it has asked me for a product key, so maybe it is.
I don't know if there's a way to send your Steam account details via a python script to the Frontier Launcher, I would imagine there is, but I don't have the knowledge to create one, I just copy and pasted mine from a six year old post on the Elite reddit.
Since update 15, Epic wants to re-download 20.6 GB, if I'm not mistaken that's the exact size of the Legacy folder I deleted to free up space.
I managed to circumvent Epic by launching Elite with a python script that opens a browser window with a basic HTML page that has my auth code, which I copy and paste into a python text box, which then sends that info to the Frontier Launcher, which only updates whichever version is selected.
Since the Launcher Update, I'm not sure if the python script is actually necessary anymore, but the two times I've tried to open the Frontier Launcher without it, it has asked me for a product key, so maybe it is.
I don't know if there's a way to send your Steam account details via a python script to the Frontier Launcher, I would imagine there is, but I don't have the knowledge to create one, I just copy and pasted mine from a six year old post on the Elite reddit.