Skip Opening Screen
Returning player on new comp and total reload. I even had to put in a ticket to reactivate my account! I remember having a plugin that skipped the opening screen, same as when I get lucky with hitting Esc. Can't find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated as the enforced waiting is just annoying. Thanks.
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Add this argument to your shortcut:
-nosplash Some people report that this argument speeds up loading too, but I have not traced exactly what it does and it might interfere with automatic patching: -skiprawdownload Pretty sure it just prevents the download of the splash screens, though. |
:eek: Great ! Thank you for sharing this information :)
Why did I learned about it only today ?! :o I tried to add simultaneously these 2 arguments in the launcher shortcut properties "...\The Lord of the Rings Online\LotroLauncher.exe" -nosplash -skiprawdownload It do not downloads anymore the advertisements in French + English + German each time I run the launcher, however I still have the splash screen (and have to press escape). Am I doing something wrong ? |
It's possible that -nosplash was disabled. SSG has made quite a number of changes to the LOTRO Launcher application (and the client apps) over the last year. It worked the last time I tried it, but when I tested it just now after reading your reply, that argument did not disable the display of the two splash screens (the logo animation followed by the advertising still).
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So, do someone know a way to skip the SSG logo animation and the "press escape" screen ?
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There's no way for a LOTRO plugin to do this, since plugins don't get loaded until after you log in a character. However, I'm confused as to why you need this. When I don't touch anything after selecting my server, it takes around 30 seconds for me to get to the character selection screen. If I do the double-escape key, it takes 10 to 15 seconds... but if I'm not present to press Escape then the extra 15-20 seconds don't seem relevant. And if I am present and want to speed up the process, then I press Escape.
However, you could write a small program that looks for the LOTRO client launching, waits ten seconds (or however long on your system), and then sends the Escape key to the LOTRO client twice. |
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Working on skins, particularly when resizing a panel, require a lot of game relaunching to track the changes. Doing this more than 50 times a day is boring and is a big time loss. |
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Your shortcut's Target would look something like this: Code:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\StandingStoneGames\The Lord of the Rings Online\LotroLauncher.exe" -nosplash -skiprawdownload -username [USERNAME] -password "[PASSWORD]" |
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My messing around failed to uncover a clean way to skip the pregame ad/"press escape" screen. One could make a plugin with a startup script for OneLauncher to do the escape key spamming on game launch pretty easily, though. Might add a similar, but more precise solution to Onelauncher in the future, if some potenttial features involving similar tech get implemented. |
Hi and thank you for the tweak about the animated logo, however, it in my case, lotro restores it on the next launch.
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1. Replace "turbine_logo.bik" with a file the client still recognizes but won't play an animation. You can just create a copy of "lotro_ad_pregame.jpg" and rename it to "turbine_logo.bik". 2. Run the launcher with the "-skiprawdownload" and "-disablepatch" command line arguments. Downside is you would have to run the launcher without the arguments and redo the change to "turbine_logo.bik" when there's a game update. Of course, the skipped patching also speeds up the launch process, and the change to "turbine_logo.bik" could easily get automated as part of your launch shortcut. Only other easy option I found is to use a script to delete "turbine_logo.bik" a few seconds after running the launcher. That could potentially fail during the launch right after a game update, though, since patching would still be in progress when the file is deleted. |
@June Stepp
Thank you :) |
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