Horizons Question on Starting/Launching ED:Horizons on PC?.

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
I have been playing ED for over a year now by opening the launcher, clicking on the ED Horizons 64bit link and then playing once it has all loaded. In that time I just minimised the launcher and played on the client like I would imagine most of you others?. Last night I upgraded my Comodo CIS security suite to the latest version 10 which is a whole new thing from previously and needed a clean install. This all went fine although time consuming as I couldn't import my old settings and had to reset everything including firewall rules etc etc. Today when I started up ED Horizons I noticed when reaching the opening screen that the bars in my power regulator were flickering as were a few other things. Thinking it was a problem with the new Comodo permissions I opened the GUI and saw that the Launcher was using 82% of my bandwidth while the Client only had 15%. My first thought was just to log out and restart but decided to close the Launcher first and see what would happen. Rightly or wrongly until now I believed that the Launcher needed to be open as well as the Client. Anyway after I closed the Launcher my game didn't crash and the Client bandwidth immediately rose to over 97% the power bars were now maxed and the flickering etc had gone. I then played ED Horizons uneventfully for a couple of hours until logging out. My question is this, does the Launcher need to be open while playing other than for starting the game and if it doesn't, then could the fact that it was using a lot of bandwidth on mine when I checked be responsible for some of these slow loading screens, server crashes etc etc that some of us have been experiencing ever since the v2.2 update?. Not sure if I have explained it very well but if not ask away.
 

Klab

Klab
Interesting find, I will try closing it from now on and see if it improves or reduces all the mismatches etc.
 

Mechanist

Mechanist
The launcher does not have to be open for playing ED.
You also benefit from gaining some FPS if you are playing on an older laptop / PC.
FD should include the option "Automatically close launcher on start".
 

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
Thanks for the replies, played again last night with closed launcher to confirm it is not neccessary. I agree that it should do this automatically.
 

Whitehair

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When you exit the game there is the option to:
exit to desktop - which does just that or
exit to main (I think) which takes you back to the launcher, where you can then choose another playing option such as tutorials, CQC, Elite Dangerous, Horizons etc.

Presumably this is why the laucher isn't closed automatically.
 
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CMDR R SWIPE

C
One side tidbit I noticed was that if the launcher is open, Steam logs the app as open.

I just got the game the beginning of September, and when I looked at Steam's "You've played", it was at 1800 hours. There's just no way, not even remotely. In game it's under 4 weeks (probably still bad, considering the time frame we're talking about).

Unemployment sucks.
 

RoadRunner

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Whitehair said:
When you exit the game there is the option to:
exit to desktop - which does just that or
exit to main (I think) which takes you back to the launcher, where you can then choose another playing option such as tutorials, CQC, Elite Dangerous, Horizons etc.

Presumably this is why the laucher isn't closed automatically.
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Doesn't exit to main just take you back to the main menu in game where you can select another game mode within the version of the game you have running? I'm sure that if you want to switch between Arena/ED/Horizons, you have to exit to desktop and run the appropriate game from the launcher...
 
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