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gerridae
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I am surprised i dont see a thread like this already. Anyways, i had to redo my system. Initially i did not have to have another garbage program at my computers startup, but now i must install arc to play! I actually refused to do it for several weeks now. Well whatever, I am installing it now, so I can install sto, then i am going to immediately uninstall or disable arc! wtf is it for anyways! please comment loudly and nastily. lol.
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Oh and, I reinstalled the game months ago. Back then the 'Direct Download' (before Arc) on that download page had it. First thing it tells you when trying to install it was that it had to install Pando first. No way out of it. Also back then the download page had a bit torrent option to download all the installation files for the game and it didn't have Pando in it at all. I saved the files to an external hard drive just in case I ever need to reinstall the game again, unless they do eventually force everybody to use this Arc system instead of people downloading a fresh copy of the game.
Good luck - and in case you ever need to do this again:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=11803781#post11803781
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STO LTS since launch; NW player since 2014; ARC user - only when I have to put in codes for free stuff
Has anyone simply tried install Arc, Installing STO, uninstalling Arc and then going into the STO folder inside program files and making a shortcut for the desktop?
Seems to be working for me atm. Patching now.
If there ever comes a time where I cannot play STO without ARC, i'll move over to Steam.
Long story short, I'm not installing a bunch of gaming browsers from all kinds of different companies on my system just to play 1 game. The end.
I did initially find, that when I first started using Arc with STO already on my system. STO took a bit longer to load up for me.
I did clean up of my system recently, so I had to reinstall STO. this time using Arc to download and install. The download and install time was drastically reduced, and getting into game now is way way faster than before.
The other good things about it (just my opinion) is that I have full access to the support website and forum while still in game.
I won't say it is totally awesome as there is still a need for improvement, being able to customise the look would be a good one. PWE is going in the right direction with it though.
Saying Arc sucks is somewhat of an over reaction (maybe because being one of the founding users I have had more time to explore it more) It's new, and something new is always going to cause debate, because it is within our nature to challenge some new, that we have to adjust to.
I have never had and pop ups reminding me about Neverwinter. If you can tell me what is happening I can then look at my settings that may help you turn it off.
1. I don't think is TRIBBLE (but that is individual personal opinion)
2. It is not sucking up resources on my system in any shape or form if it was I too would not use it. (I think it comes down to indivual system setup)
It isn't totally brilliant I accept anything new will always have it's flaws. There is alot of scope for improvement, and I am sure that will comes in due course.
The marketing of it to the players was somewhat aggresive for use of a better word, by stating the words "mandatory to download" is always going to put players on the defensive.