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Sadly time to UNINSTALL (Arc) as it breaks STO from Launching.

strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,666 Bug Hunter
edited August 2021 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
Seems it getting far worse rather than be FIXED, as today even restarting Arc / STO loaded two black screens.

So seems Cryptic does not want to FIX their beloved Arc. I guess they are giving us no choice but to uninstall it.

So from this point like many have done, I guess it's just time to uninstall it.

*Waves Goodbye* to Arc, see you later... ...I liked you while you were working!

@ambassadorkael#6946
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    o0galathor0oo0galathor0o Member Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited August 2021
    I don't know what ***t is cooking there...but I wasn't able to start my launcher for a week now. Yesterday I thought I'd try it with ARC...didn't work, "Upgrade error". Uninstalled ARC, reinstalled it...same error. So uninstalled it again. And a few minutes ago I thought I try my launcher again, expecting the same error I got for a week now. but now...launcher started again. Seems like they really work hard to crash the whole thing against the wall.
    ~ Don't blame the clown for being a clown, blame yourself for going to the circus ~
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    strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,666 Bug Hunter
    I mean Arc worked fine for years, so it be nice if they actually FIXED it. :)
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    strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,666 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2021
    westmetals wrote: »
    fyi, you can add (in the launcher) the following text to disable the Arc overlay in-game. I am told that this has cleared up the black screen issues for some players:

    inside the launcher, open "options"
    in the "command line" box
    -ArcOverlayEnable 0

    I could swear their USED TO be an option to add a Command Line thing like that, yet I don't see that any more.

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    Seems they are trying to encourage people to not use Arc, which seems rather silly!

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    I'm mean at the time they are ENDING support for 32-bit, they actually ENABLE 32-bit on the STO launcher &/or Arc so it always starts 32-bit before later switching to 64? Never used to do that...

    Say the black screen often only occurs when ARC Update itself stays loaded in 32-bit mode, rather than close the 32-bit process. At least Arc itself still launches in 64-bit mode (most of the time) and why is it even starting 32-bit or all these child processes? It used to always run just 64 as a single instance.

    It's bad enough, that ARC itself sometimes load's twice aside from spawning all these 32-bit child process...

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    So really HOPEFUL they FIX this soon!

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    *sigh* :/
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    strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,666 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2021
    Hehe, I was wondering why I couldn't find it. Low Blood sugar moment which I have often being Type 1.

    So Thank You!

    I'll add the '-ArcOverlayEnable 0' now. :)
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