Can we have an option to close the launcher when the game starts?
auto close launcher when game starts?
- Thread starter Khelavaster
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For me, the launcher window is of no use since i start E: D. When i don't want to play any more, i close E: D and then i have to close the launcher too. What's the point of having it open, since the game is 100% playable without it?
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Don't really care either way, just don't see it as any sort of necessity. You can quite easily click to close it after clicking to play the game.
Alternatively, it's just a single click to close it if still open after you exit the game.
If your game crashes then you have the launcher already there and the play button becomes enabled again rather than having to restart the launcher and login first.
Has never happened to me so far, but that's why i asked for a config option to enable/disable such a feature. It's trivial to implement, adds only a couple of bytes to the launcher.exe and if user-configurable, everybody will be happy. The default could be set to "stay open" (as is now).
When starting with SteamVR in particular, this is an issue. The launcher stays open after leaving the game and Steam thinks I'm still playing.
So I come bearing a gift: an AutoHotkey script you can leave in the background.
How it works:
So I come bearing a gift: an AutoHotkey script you can leave in the background.
How it works:
- sleep until Elite Dangerous is running
- sleep until Elite Dangerous closes
- close the launcher
Code:
#Persistent
#SingleInstance, force
Loop
{
WinWait, ahk_exe EliteDangerous64.exe
WinWaitClose, ahk_exe EliteDangerous64.exe
WinClose, ahk_exe EDlaunch.exe
}
This -> I often exit the game to do other things for a short while, then want to get back into it. If I just exit to the main menu my vid card is stil under load, but if I exit to the desktop it isn't, however if the launcher is closed I have to log back into ED, if the launcher remains open I stay logged in, thus reducing the time it takes me to get back into the game, so I would prefer it to stay the way it is, I could support minimise to system tray since that won't result in me being logged out, but not to close it altogether.
As the OP said:
So i support just that, an option (i.e. in Launcher, menu Options, a checkable "Close launcher after game launch" after "Detailed update log"). It should be trivial for FD to implement this. IMHO, more time was required from me to write this post than the time an FD developer needs to implement this option.
This is also an issue with Steam Remote Play. The remote play will focus on the launcher instead of the actual game without a way to switch. To play Elite I currently use VNC to connect my windows box, start the game from Steam, start the game from the launcher, then click the X repeatedly to close the launcher before the game starts (after the game starts VNC goes black).
I'm at a loss. I can't think of any thing less important to nitpick over. 
Did no one notice the date on the op? This is 5 years old. Not likely to happen.
I figured but found this when I was searching to see if there was an option I had missed and thought I'd chime in. Couldn't hurt and all that.
Another reason to have it close or minimise to the system tray is that when recording on shadowplay it has a tendancy to record the launcher (strange stary backround) rather than the game, manually closing solves this issue but auto closing would be a nice quality of life improvement.
Not that i do much recording of gameplay these days but it was something that bugged me when i forgot to close and had something i wanted to lookover.
Not that i do much recording of gameplay these days but it was something that bugged me when i forgot to close and had something i wanted to lookover.
This thread is ancient!
But yes, I'd like a checkbox for "close launcher after launch".
I rarely quit and come straight back, and when I do, I just right click on steam in the task bar and ED is on the list recently played games. Done.
(I don't keep shortcuts on my desktop. Tis mess!)
But yes, I'd like a checkbox for "close launcher after launch".
I rarely quit and come straight back, and when I do, I just right click on steam in the task bar and ED is on the list recently played games. Done.
(I don't keep shortcuts on my desktop. Tis mess!)
Why waste dev time for something people can do with a simple click on a X by themselvs?
Necroing this thread for steam deck, the launcher MUST close on start