They updated the launcher, or so it would seem.

Even with your program set up, launching the game installs official Paradox launcher.

Fooling their launcher does not work, also all my profile medals/ribbons have reset, probably beyond repair.

I'm currently considering creating an alternate even lighter launcher alternative that will have no options, no start window, to instantly start the game.

• alternate lightweight "launcher[.exe]" binary
• no launcher window / splash screen before starting the game
• no customization options in this alternate launcher

If you have any suggestions, please add them in this issue

It's possible that I'll be getting access to a Mac.
If I do, I'll check to see if it's possible to make a mac version

Where I would expect checkboxes, all I see is a missing-character box. If I click it, it changes from black or dark gray to a dark blue-ish color, and if I click again, it goes back to black. I think the blue means the option is active?

The behaviour of the bootstrapper is far too aggressive: I installed Prison Architect, and the NotParadox Launcher believed I was launching Cities Skylines!

This is the strangest bug I've come along in a long while. After having installed the Build and Shoot Launcher, the Not Paradox Launcher completely stops working. After uninstalling B&S, it works again.

While I have B&S installed, the bootstrapper-v2.exe will OPEN the B&S launcher, which is even stranger.

how can i see all the downloaded steam workshop mods, and which of them are activated or not, like in Paradox launcher?

i don't see any options for that on this launcher, just a generic enable/disable option for the workshop and all mods, it's just insane!

or did i miss something???

This is great! I don't know why Paradox decided that they needed a launcher in the first place. Make an already long to load game even longer loading! Problem solved.

Anyway, I've got a request. How about a dedicated button (like the resume last save button) that launches the game in --noWorkshop mode? I know that I can change it from the options menu. However, being an asset/map creator, I frequently open the game in --noWorkshop in order to work on/build an asset, exit the game, re-open to last saved game (with the workshop enabled) to test the asset, exit, repeat... A dedicated --noWorkshop button could be very handy!

Thanks for your consideration,
~Naylin

Is it just me, or is the image not properly sized to fill the entire launcher window? This seems like it shouldn't be the case...

On Manjaro Linux, the launcher doesn't seem to exit cleanly. I have to manually kill the left over process.

It works fine, installs fine and so on but it does give this:

[liam@liam-manjaro ~]$ /home/liam/Downloads/Linux.Not.Paradox.Launcher.v1.2.0.x64/launcher
An unhandled exception occurred at $00007F9CC756942C:
EAccessViolation:
$00007F9CC756942C

If you need more info, let me know.

Currently, the following features are planned to be released in the next version:

• Show a "Play" button to quickly start the game again if the launcher was left open after exiting the game
• Add support for the command line arguments the game supports (such as no workshop, no mods, borderless window, force dx9, etc)
• Allow to turn off Steam Overlay
• Close the launcher a few seconds after the game is launched

If you have any suggestions, comment on this issue

Same as the title :/

I couldn´t find a .exe file but it was the linux branch I downloaded, my mistake

The following options will be added in the next version:

• Add option to force a specific GPU ( -force-device-index) (all platforms)
• Add option to force Metal API (-force-gfx-metal) (MacOS only)
• Add option to force a specific monitor (-adapter) (all platforms)
• Add options to force a specific resolution (-screen-width and -screen-height) (all platforms)
• Optional button to launch a 3rd party app (won't appear if not configured in options window) (as requested in issue #10)

Attempting to launch a paradox game comes up with the error "A paradox Launcher installation was found, but it's not working. Would you like to reinstall? (Yes/No)"
Pressing no results in the following error.
"Could not start Paradox Launcher at Notparadoxlauncher Path CreateFile Notparadoxlauncher Path/bootstrapper-v2-.exe: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Detailed logs can be found at: appdata\local\Paradox Interactive\launcher-v2\logs\launcher-dowser.log\

Please let me know if this is an ID10T error or a patch by Paradox

Launcher version: 1.3
OS: macOS 10.15.3

I'm faced with an issue. Literally can not type anything at the advanced section of the launcher, but copy/paste works pretty well.

Btw, does advanced section work? I've tried to set some launch options and they do not work it seems (I've tried --enable-dev-ui, -screen-width <width> -screen-height <height>, -screen-fullscreen m and -windowed but no luck).

p.s.: thank you for the work 👍

This fixed my game, which has been broken for about a year now, despite me messing around more than I should in my windows files. Huge thumbs up.

Just wanted to say THANKS!! :-)
Works and no crashes since ....

So first of all, the application works great. Has saved me a lot of nerves. :) However, I'm having a small feature request:

On my laptop, I have two GPUs, an internal iGPU from intel and a nvidia GPU. The nvidia GPU is usually on standby unless I specifically request an application to be rendered with it. I do this by adding prime-run in front of the command in steam, so it would look like "prime-run %command%".

Now, this obviously doesn't work in steam as the application that is started is the notparadoxlauncher, which in turn starts CK3 in my case without the options.

Is it possible to create a way to not only append options to the game, but also prepend? Or just give us a way to use a "steam-like" %command% so we can basically create the launch command ourselves?

Here are my log files
logs.zip

Check possibility to make a Linux version of the launcher

{
	"continuelastsave": false,
	"noworkshop": false,
	"disablemods": false,
	"nolog": false,
	"windowmode": "borderless",
	"forced3d9": false,
	"forceopengl": false,
	"advanced": "-screen-width 3840 -screen-height 1600"
}

The game runs in fullscreen instead of borderless with standard HD resolution.

Seems to me that all bootstrapper-v2.exe does is run launcher.exe. In fact, launcher.exe can be renamed to bootstrapper-v2.exe and it still works right.

Add option to customize the countdown (currently 5 seconds) before starting the game.

• settable option between 1 and 10 seconds (default will still be 5 seconds)

When trying to start the launcher on Void Linux (kernel: linux-tkg 5.17.1), I get the following error:

[rubin@THINK Cities_Skylines]$ ./launcher
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
[FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred 
  Sender=EAccessViolation
  Exception=Access violation
  Stack trace:
  $00000000004D4EB3
  $00000000004BAF29
  $00000000005BDB36
  $00000000005BD51F
  $00000000005B9B93
  $0000000000517475
  $000000000051738B
  $000000000042D0AD
  $000000000042C403
[FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred 

The readme says: 3. Delete the file "launcherpath" from "%APPDATA%\Local\Paradox Interactive"

%APPDATA% points to AppData\Roaming, whereas %LOCALAPPDATA% points to AppData\Local.

Correct would be: 3. Delete the file "launcherpath" from "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Paradox Interactive"

Version v1.3.1.x64
OS: Fedora 32
Window Manager: Sway (Wayland)

./launcher

output

[FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred 
  Sender=EAccessViolation
  Exception=Access violation
  Stack trace:
  $00000000004D4EB3
  $00000000004BAF29
  $00000000005BDB36
  $00000000005BD51F
  $00000000005B9B93
  $0000000000517475
  $000000000051738B
  $000000000042D0AD
  $000000000042C403
[FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred 

Exit code: 0

It just gets stuck.

Windows Server 2022 21H2 20348.707

Any logs I should provide?

Your launcher works perfectly fine with Stellaris.
Dunno whether you know of it, but there's this very handy tool:
https://github.com/ThibautSF/ParadoxosModManagerRework

I was thinking if you could perhaps include a shortcut to launch this manager from within your launcher? Nothing too fancy, just a button to start the application for quick mod adjustments. Maybe a list of active mods?

Must say, how very handy that I discovered your launcher just when the official one decided to go belly up. And with Linux support, too! So thanks a million!

Looks like the Sunset Harbor update changed the location of the file "launcher-settings.json" inside the game package.
Working on a fix and will release asap

the readme says to copy some files from "~/Library/Preferences/Paradox Interactive/launcherpath"

There is no "paradox interactive" file in ~/library/preferences... or anywhere on my mac for that matter! not sure where the files mentioned in the readme are.

The launcher appears to work, but using any of the launch parameters doesn't, I get an error - this has been attached below.

I unzipped the file and ran the launcher.exe. I was excited to finally get around my issues with playing Cities Skylines, but upon pressing "play" on steam; the Toontown Rewritten launcher opened. While this is a hilarious issue, I still cant open Cities Skylines and I don't know how this happened please help

The following feature is planned for the next release:
When starting the game, show another button besides the cancel button that will do as following:

• if resuming last save game, the button will quickly switch to normal start (go to game menu)
• if starting normally, the button will quickly switch to resume last save game.

The button will change the startup mode only for the current session, next time the launcher starts, it will use the method as specified in the options

If you enable or disable the "Disable Steam Workshop" option, when closing the options window, the dedicated button to toggle the setting for the current session won't update it's label.

I am running Windows 10 with a display scaling of 150%.

On Windows 10 with a display scaling of 150%, the descriptions in the options window are cut off:

If I switch display scaling to 100% and relaunch the launcher, the options text shows correctly. I didn't try any other display scale settings but I'm assuming it's going to be off for other values as well.

If "Not Paradox Launcher" is extracted to the game folder, instead of running the setup process when starting launcher.exe, it starts "cities.exe" that then starts the process to install paradox launcher.

The issue will be fixed in the next release, until then, do not place the launcher in the same folder as cities.exe