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Arcgames.com and new Arc client now in Beta!
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We're pleased to announce that the new Arc website, Arcgames.com, and client are now in Public Beta!
It's a very exciting moment for us – we've been working on the site for the past several months and this will be our first opportunity to share it with everyone.
Click here for all of the details: http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=1075391
It's a very exciting moment for us – we've been working on the site for the past several months and this will be our first opportunity to share it with everyone.
Click here for all of the details: http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=1075391
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Thanks, but no thanks.
QUESTION: Do I need to download this new "public beta" or will the version I already have be auto-updated or something?
Thanks!
EDIT: Nevermindit - my excitement had me jumping the gun on questions, I see the update instructions in the news announcement. This is awesome! (for the naysayers: don't knock it unless you've tried it. ARC is incredibly light footprint and massively useful, I'm loving' it and I know a lot of other people are, too. If it's not for you then that's fair, but don;t knock it. #justsaying)
Edit 2: I love the new look and the game-time stats are awesome (and funny, too) (Neverwinter: 12 days 15 hours 45 minutes 27 seconds.) Where has my life gone? DamnYouAll! LOL
You can add other games to ARC and you could do this with the original version 1, including non-PWE games and apps. Look under your games list and you will see a clickable button called "Add Games" (to something to that effect) - click it and your explorer window opens to select whatever you want. It's just a launcher. Hell, you can add Microsoft Write or MS Word or whatever to it if you wanted.
If I remember correctly, you can also drag and drop shortcuts or EXE files there to add them also. I have Second Life and MS Flight Simulator in there. ARC makes for a great "Entertainment Shell" the way I use it for myself. And as for all the "ARC is crapware" naysayers: it's not. It's actually quite handy-dandy and incredibly low overhead and footprint. I notice absolutely zero difference in in performance with or without it running. #justsaying
Atleast make the starting pages for each game easily reachable sth like nw.arcgames.com
I was not clear enough it seems; I am aware of this wannabe solution but it adds only a shortcut without the full functionality: you cannot see news and infos about the games in the Arc client itself (making Arc quite redundant). If it is still not clear enough, just deinstall Arc and install it again and try to add an existing game and you will only see a simple shortcut to the game without any info in the Arc browser window.
(The linked registry too is able to fix it for many older games.)
The only answer I got so far from PWE was that I should simply re-download the game if I went through the trouble of re-installing my OS; a sensitive answer after my saying that my connection is still a dsl 2000 connection. So, I have to search in the registry by myself after all.
Okay, I get what you're saying: you mean full integration the way PWE games are. I agree with that, it would be awesome if it could do that.
I only want to integrate PWE games, it would just be good, if they update that registry tool as it does its job pretty good and afterwards everything worked fine. It is a bit meh if some games are fully integrated and others like NW only get a shortcut if not again downloaded after a new install of the OS.
. . . I currently have Neverwinter installed through Steam and the ARC Client has detected and utilizes my installations for it and other PWE Titles. I really like this, which means I can choose which Community I wish to start Neverwinter from, or even both. I've been running Steam and ARC together and they seem to run flawlessly side-by-side.
. . . The one major issue I have with ARC is that it seems to block my mouse's extra buttons from working. In order for me to use my mouse's extra buttons, I have to shut down the game, shut down ARC and then load the game either through Steam or stand-alone.
. . . I have a Logitech M705 using Setpoint Control Version 6.61.15 and driver version 5.60.73 - which at the time of this post is all up-to-date. So unfortunately, this means that I won't be using ARC until this is resolved.
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Hi Zeb,
To clarify 100%, you are reporting that once Arc runs, your additional mouse buttons stop working in all scenarios (i.e. in Windows, in your browser, in your game, etc), then begin working again after Arc is closed? Or, does it only disable your additional mouse buttons for use in Neverwinter?
Thanks for any additional info,
Noel
Hey Dez!
I'll poke Zeb about your response to get him to respond when he can.
I haven't tried Arc yet myself so I am not sure on the specifics of Arc blocking key commands but there have been a number of cases where Arc tampers with input additional input commands beyond just mouse and keyboard input.
XPadder and Arc seem to have comparability issues. Players who install Arc suddenly find Xpadder stops functioning while using Arc Games. It seems some players have found running Xpadder in Admin mode resolvers the issue but this is not a 100% solution from what I have heard.
I am sorry I don't have a lot of specific information as this is all relayed information rather than personal experience but I know multiple people personally who stopped playing because of this issue since for a period of time they were unable to use anything but Arc to launch the game.
. . .However, if I have ARC running and then I navigate to my installation directory and load the game manually (Neverwinter.exe launcher) and sign in, my extra mouse button work just fine, as well they work just fine when loading the game through Steam with ARC running.
. . .It seems to only block my extra mouse buttons when I actually click Play for Neverwinter on the ARC Client game list.
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You should be able to click your name on the Arc Client and there is a Redeem Key section.
However, when I click it I get:
You do not have any characters on Perfect World. You will need to create a character before you can redeem this key.
Indeed, I just clicked on my name and got the redeem key section where I put the code. It was accepted but where are the gifts now?
I really would appreciate if someone could tell me what to do now?
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Ah I see, thanks!
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My wording seems to not have been appropriate, well, then a second try.
The ARC client as it is now does not have the feature to implement existing games; you are only able to download the game anew. However, there is a tool to solve the problem here but sadly it has got no updates for a long time now and Neverwinter is not supported.
I guess we have to wait till any of these programs get updated to enable us to implement already downloaded games into ARC the way newly downloaded games get implemented into ARC.