Managing Game Launchers in 2019
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
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Tiger Woods 99 OST
Midnight Brown - Teencity
EDISON - Let Me Know Your Name
EDISON - A Cold Wind In My Mind
The Siege - Animal
nervous_testpilot - Nightpath
iamthekidyouknowwhatimean - Run 
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I had to use a launcher to open this video
My grandfather died,his funeral was an epic store exclusive.
@@adr.k8676 a fate worse than death
@@davidtyierejian1033 this is epic
I just have a separate desktop setup in Stardock Fences dedicated to games, pmuch the same
bloody oath
Even though this video is only 13 minutes long, I always feel the desire to grab some popcorn before a Raycevick video...
"ONLY"
@@DamnNake compared to his other videos, yeah!
I usually eat my dinner while watching these.
Literally eating popcorn rn 🍿
I could listen to this man talk about anything. Seriously, he could do a video based on the Wikipedia page for rope and I wouldn’t complain
The GOG Galaxy 2.0 version aims to do this as well.
@Afonso Carmo lol yes
What about GeForce Experience?
@@shittysoulsplayer5038 no
Smelly why?
@@shittysoulsplayer5038 GeForce Experience recognize only triple A titles
"For every inefficiency, there's someone making money off that inefficiency"
Manufactured discontent and capitalism, name a more iconic duo.
No
You got it now. The Beta for GOG GALAXY 2.0 has been announced and it promises to organize all your games across all launchers.
what about tracking downloads
Announced yes but not released.
@@John190assman You can sign up for the beta already If I'm not mistaken.
Probably Windows only :/
I'm in the closed beta. It's pretty good. It tracks downloads, but I don't like how it seems to be a web browser on the backend, similar to how the RUclips app worked on the 3DS.
My Steam library - 100 games.
Reycevic' steam library - 100 games starting with an 'A'.
This is secretly a SuperBunnyhop video. I love it.
'Run' from HLM2 was a real pleasant surprise to hear in this!
Haha yes someone else noticed it
"Nightpath" from Frozen Synapse was also just as nice to hear
Okay, I need a Raycevick video on Hotline Miami. Come on, you can't have iamthekidyouknowwhatimean - Run on the background and not have the video be at least slightly connected to Hotline Miami.
But Hard Mode in HM2 is such a pppppaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnn!!!
@@Raycevick but we neeeeeeedd ittt
@@Raycevick We NEEEEEEEEDDDD IT
@@Raycevick Hotline 2 is about learning the stages and being perfect at them. Memorizing each route and perfecting the run to carry the combo to the next stage. Hardmode is amazing because of all the subtle but smart level design changes that make you have to think and carefully plan. And the ammo halfing was a required nerf for better players who use those 30 round guns too easily, and bring in ammo conservation and throw conversation into the mix that requires even more though in a split second. It adds to the even higher skill ceiling the game's got.
I really love the game, and would love to see you bring more attention to the modding scene. With 2k+ hours in game and the editor I believe I could help you pr provide gameplay that shows higher levels of play.
@@robracer97 my worlds are colliding
2022 update: Playnite is wonderful now.
I think I'll check Playnite out, thank you!
Bit of an oversight to the idea for discord to hire Playnite's devs is that if that happens they will be under contract, making the code they develop after they get hired Discord's property. Unless Discord keeps Open Sourcing that code (which they didn't with the main discord client) you will lose a lot of pro's you listed for the program.
That is a good point, though Discord is a surprisingly open-ended program, allowing users to invite people to games that are effectively taken off the market. Best case scenario is a Playnite/Discord merger would retain that flexibility, but you're right, open-source would be out the window.
I've started using Discord as my launcher. I've always got the program open and the indexing is great, so searches are near instant and launches sometimes faster than the game's original launcher. It's only stumbling block is if you're not signed into the service that provides the game, in which that respective launcher prompts a login. This is rather expected though.
As a backup though, I just make shortcuts of the game's executable and have those piled into a folder in my documents that I then have pinned to my start menu or on my desktop. Works just almost just as quick.
I remember the day before launchers though, where my games were only as organized as I could make them and usually a CD was required to get it started. I couldn't honestly say if it was faster or not in a world of digital launchers these days, but at least there are multiple pretty decent solutions to unify them under one program of personal preference.
The most important part of an "all-in-one" launcher is that it scans all digital libraries, regardless wether games are installed or not. I've got so many uninstalled games scattered across multiple launcher that I sometimes accidentally buy games twice.
It seems Gog’s Galaxy2.0 will be added to a this list at some point in the future.
Thank you for this.
I and probably many of us, all have this same launcher problem and you explained it so well.
I honestly think you've predicted gaming's next big step.
I just booted up my Epic Games Store Steam Launcher, and activated my UPlay code to get my 7-day free trial of Xbox EA Game Pass Premium subscription, in order to watch this video. Worth it!
I'd rather not let Discord take over development of anything...
amen
Monopolies are never okay
Yeah, nitro is egregious enough with how many features are locked without it and how much it asks for.
Like, no, I don't care about your server's bandwidth. You're a massive company now, and 8 megabytes is America Online file size limits. They're asking ten bucks at least to provide a feature most other chat clients offer at a greater capacity for free.
God, don't advocate for Discord buying Playnite. That's a great way to kill its ideals, potential, and hand it over to a company that considers anti-consumer strategy perfectly acceptable.
stuntaneous What anti consumer strategy?
@@ChrisBa303 Discord has been buying exclusivity.
stuntaneous Corporate consolidation in general.
This video is the video nobody asked for, but the video everyone needed.
man that downloading ram joke was so sincere and quick I almost wonder how many people will think thats actually a thing.
you really like using black lagoon ost dont you?
Revy is best girl.
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Too much pandering, with too little edge. And “they” say ‘it’s just a joke.’
I Saw A Bear I thought I was the only one
@@TheMilhouseExperience what r u talking about?
@@TheMilhouseExperience Not exactly lacking edge but yeah, there is far too much pandering. Nothing but garbage lately.
Brightest minds on reddit sounds like an oximoron
Every website is reddit now and redditors are idiots.
Hive-ist minds more like
no just moron
Excuse me, but I have three billion upvotes, I think that makes me an authority.
Honestly I'd rank RUclips comments top of the cancer list followed closely by Reddit. Haven't ever used Facebook/Twitter so can't say much about that
There should an official communication protocol for digital distribution developed. An official RFC where the client similar to P2P Clients is just that. A client. The technology then allows to distribute content by having severs that are similar to DNS Servers that tell you where what content is available to buy. Through that there can be millions of suppliers for all kinds of stuff and a real market can develop. IT Scientists of the internet please create an RFC for that.
It's called a package manager. *nixes had them for decades.
I'd bet that the lack of download progress/which client is using bandwidth stems from all the other launchers not providing a local API to query for download progress.
All the game meta data, what you own, friends list, etc can be pulled with each companies web api, but the download progress is only visible to the client doing the downloading. Unless you can hook into the launcher there's no way to get the info about download progress.
They could however do some os specific calls to find out what programs are using the most network bandwidth and make an educated guess about who's downloading something.
Pretty sure that would require the program to launch as admin, which makes it a kinda nasty solution.
The only path forward that would be good for the launcher launcher is if every other launcher provided an api for message passing. That's never gonna happen though. Half the point of making a launcher in the first place was to lock you into an ecosystem.
Copy pasting here cause no one reads my comment:
To find which client is hogging your bandwidth, press Control+Alt+Delete, open Task Manager, on Performance tab click on "Resource Monitor", move to Network tab, then sort by "Total (B/sec)".
I know it seems like a lot of work and a hassle but once you do it a few times it just becomes muscle memory. I do this quite often when I want to know if a program is still in the process of downloading something or if it's just hanged.
@@aghayejalebian7364 ctrl + shift + esc directly opens task manager
The only path forward is to stop using third-party launchers. Software updates are best handled by the OS. One of the main reasons Steam even existed is because Microsoft screwed up by not having a package manager in Windows - something that the *nixes started incorporating since 1994 !
@@BlueTemplar15 I don't think windows works on the philosophy of packages
@@dhruvchawla5476 "philosophy" ? What would prevent them from working ? Chocolatey has issues, but they seem to come from it being third-party, rather than from the OS maker...
I really thought the end is just going to be some password manager service sponsorship
I don't trust any of those programs.
Remember Nord VPN and Audible?
I feel like I'm doing something stupid, but I've been using Steam for this purpose.
I just like to see all the games I have, with all the cover art (this was the main motivation for me) in once place. I started doing it back when I mostly only had steam games, but now I have more games, I feel like a frog in a warm pot.
I like Steam library's interface; I like how there is the steamgriddb website that archives games' steam cover art, and let people submit their own (even for most non-steam games and old consoles games); Steam's "add non-steam game", "add custom art" (even support moving pictures), and categorization features are easy to use; there is even steam room manager that let you add emulated consoles game as entries on Steam.
However, having to manually add each .exe and getting art for them is starting to get a bit tedious. Doing it for one game at a time isn't bad, but it adds up. But moving to a different launcher also means I need to re-do everything I've set up again. Ugh.
I have one. It's an Xbox. I love hearing the PC master race cry when a new game comes out on something other than steam. It genuinely makes my day.
I've been glued to your videos since Christmas of this past year where I binged watched a ton of them. Now here I am watching your latest video and you open it talking about the Game Launcher Launcher video I wrote and directed for CORSAIR. lmao
I can imagine how surreal that must've been.
Damn you for getting my hopes up that there was a Corsair alternative to these programs...
Don't forget lutris. It's for linux, and it makes running windows games on linux really easy.
my thought as well.
Serious question: my desktop gaming PC is a Windows 7, but I run Linux Mint on my work laptop and I love it. Is it convenient to have a Linux gaming PC and use it for playing Windows games? If it is, how should I do it?
@@franciscoastorga8299 Depends on what you like to play....
@@franciscoastorga8299 I'd say yes. Start with using Steam and Lutris. Steam now has Proton, which makes playing a LOT of Windows games with it very easy.
Playing games... The only reason I haven't ditched windows. If what you're saying is true is probably about time, and even more knowing that the end of windows 7 draws near.
I use the steam controller and a lot of other controllers, so steam is my go to launcher because of the controller support.
I even added launchbox to steam so I can easily use and customize all my controllers as well as use my steam link
Rei Senpai Same. I added launchbox to steam and use the steam controller and link too
That's a interesting idea. I thought of doing that, but I was using Launchbox for ALL of my games and I figured it would be redundent to have a launcher open another launcher lol. I'm guessing you're using Launchbox as your program for emulators and big picture for your modern games?
This feels so meta, I love it.
John Who yup. Launchbox is just for my retro games, and being able to easily connect my PS3 , Switch Pro, and 8bitdo genesis controllers to steam makes things much easier to use whatever controller I need for the console I’m emulating.
There’s also the benefit of being able to use the steam link the stream my games to my living room
I use DS4 with Steam so I can use PS4 Controllers. only complaint is Steam reads button Prompts as Xbox
This was the most helpful videos he has ever made and possibly the most helpful video I've ever seen
THANK YOU! I've been thinking about this recently and im glad something like this exists!
GOG Galaxy 2.0 is coming. It will replace all that clients.
Hope so
I'm in the closed beta. It's pretty good. It tracks downloads, but I don't like how it seems to be a web browser on the backend, similar to how the RUclips app worked on the 3DS.
I just manually add my games to Steam because of the excellent controller support. Weird that you didn't talk about that option.
maybe because he's mostly on the mouse/keyboard side despite driving game love?
That is a very valid pro steam has that no other alternative has, people really underestimate just how amazing it is, because a simple shortcut can have custom binds in steam.
@@DemitriX. not only custom binds, but ever since the release of Steam Controller support, any controller can also be macro'd now. Multifunctions, combos, you name it.
Steam overlay essentially makes any controller a cheating device in a controller-friendly game lmao. That's how good it is.
I've known about quite a few of these for a long time! Thanks for making this video! Will have to check them out again!
Thank you for making this video, saved me a lot of time!
a universal launcher would be good to have
It would be dream come true
However, it's not gonna happen in our timeline, though.
Spirz how do you know gog won’t pull it off?
As I'm slowly transitioning to PC gaming the issue of game launchers is quite irritating. I do like being able to see what my friends are doing on xbox and join parties, now that I'm adding people I PC, I feel it's necessary for me to bring up discord with someone if I just want to chat or else see what they're doing by launching a whole different app. It's also frustrating to own these launchers because of all of the different exclusives on each one that I could miss out in just because I don't have the epic launcher and others
You may have to make choises.
Great video as always Raycevick
The sight of Alpjha Protocol makes me so happy. Thanks for the video !
Cypher - Aircon. NEED FOR SPEED PORSCHE MENU OST! Thank you.
Racing Video Games oh God, that's where it's from! I guessed Midtown Madness 2, but I had a niggling feeling it was from Porsche Unleashed. Thanks for pointing out out. 😀
@@UnnDunn One of my favorite racers of all time, I would recognize those tunes anywhere! Midtown Madness was great as well. 🙂
I was hoping for comparison with Lutris.
Lutris seems to be exactly what he is looking for.
Once again, fantastic video
Love yer work, man.
Im exciting about the gog launcher - I already like that launcher and prefer to buy games there when offered. Anything they do I support and I hope their program takes off so it gets even more exposure!
whoo boy yeah another video
+Raycevick Great Video man. I wasn't even aware about this organising launchers. So thanks a lot for introducing us to them and hopefully in the future we might get an all in one launcher who might accomplished everything that you said in the video. Thanks 👍
Quality as per usual, keep up the good work!
Came back to this video, just to give updates on GOG Galaxy 2.0 which hopefully would turned out to be great. 😃👍
That one escape from tarkov scene, EFT review please .
Thank you for your opinion on those game launchers, this was exactly what i was looking for!
Another great video from a great RUclipsr!
You said Burnout 2. You get a like
He has a video on Burnout which you'll probably enjoy. You might wanna watch that in case you haven't.
@@theninjaassassin4468 I've definitely seen it. I was ecstatic when it showed up on my subscription box when it was posted. While that video mostly covers Burnout Revenge, Burnout 2 is my favorite video game of all time, so I love seeing it mentioned anywhere (especially by RUclipsrs I like such as Raycevick)
Burnout 3 for me, I miss that series.
We are the lazy generation
Ops wrong gane
Not having all your launchers start with Windows is the best solution.
You know you've found a good channel when they can make the end of the video interesting as well.
you always have a good music selection in your videos, fuckin love it dude
You cheeky git, teasing Singularity like that. I'm still waiting on that video!Anyway, I think the major struggle is implementing features which require user data from multiple launchers. That'd require logins from said launchers, which becomes a huge security issue once several accounts are running through one company. To be fair, I didn't realise this level of integration could be achieved short of log-ins before watching this video, so I learned a lot!
So long as it doesn't chokeslam my favorite games with exclusivity then I'm willing to have 2-3 separate launchers, no more.
Mainly Steam, Uplay, and GOG.
These launchers however seems quite damn impressive so I may change that rule.
Love your content!
Awesome video. Loved the ending
Love the vid...Didnt even think of getting one launcher for all my games...Thank you!
Launcher for launchers? Isn't it Desktop?
Or the add non-Steam game feature
This comment is underrared
Try sorting 130 games on the desktop
@@Ryan3d Thats why you sort them on steam
@@Ryan3d Steam has a favourites tab, add games there and select "Create Desktop Shortcut".
I love launchbox, but I use it just for emulation.
Other than that, steam is good enough, and I rarely use the rest.
I wanted to use it for Big Box to manage my emulation, but I can't do anything to make it run for me.
2:04 All these CAVE shooters and the one upfront is Pink Sweets.
Damnit Raycevick.
Dude I’ve been thinking that for a while, thanks for making such a nice video 👍
oh, another video using Black Lagoon ost :D 2:08 , 3:04 , very nice.
P.s. Nice video. Keep it up.
Thing is, does any of these launchers allow me to use the social features of each of those launchers, or is it just a windows folder with extra steps? exactly.
I think that's the point he's making.
That last question tho dam that was savage but what made it better was your response dude
I didn't even know half of these launchers existed, this is a great find.
>Console owners
"I have 7 different consoles, usually have to swap HDMI cables, gaming is awesome
>PC owners
"I have to click 5 extra times this hobby is going to be ruined"
i don't think the average Joe has 7 different consoles just lying around.
i like to keep the bloatware at a minimum.
Breaking news PC gamers don't have to deal with the bullshit console gamers do. If I wanted console problems I'd buy a console.
@@poika22 and if you want to sit on your couch in your living room and play then you would buy a console.
@@reaux1560 It's not difficult to plug a PC into a TV.
For the love of god, play, or replay F.E.A.R, God damn it! Game industry needs to learn from it!
Not even F.E.A.R learned from F.E.A.R. The third game was a disappointment.
@@Shellova that was a Dead Space-esque issue. Devs left after corporate pressure resulting in an inferior product
@@Shellova this is the sad truth. i remember playing fear on the highest difficulty, what a bother! a replay of a section was never the same. That AI allways found a way to surprise and kill me :))))
Whats so good about F.E.A.R? I played F.E.A.R 2 on my PS3 once and it was one of the worst experiences i ever had...
@@CarbonPanther Play the first one, it's better
I swear, today we have launchers of games battling it out but in the future launchers of launchers are gonna be the new battle.
great content as usual
If Epic games launcher had feature parity with steam I wouldnt be so against it. Its frustrating that theyre forcing their way in by throwing money at the publishers rather than providing a better experience for the consumers
i agree
They're working on updating it to add all those features. But I agree they should have delayed exclusives until after they finished them
"rather than" false dichotomy fallacy
from the get go they had something that valve doesnt even want to try , dedicated content curation
Also the Chinese government uses it to steal ur info so....
That Hotline Miami Soundtrack tho.
Gee thanks. Now I know that this is something I want, and also that it doesn't exist yet.
You've raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir.
HOLY SHIT RAYCEVICK, YOUR OUTRO IS FROM NEED FOR SPEED PORSCHE UNLEASHED AND IT'S ALL FLOWING BACK NOW
The idea of needing a launcher for all your launchers is absolutely ridiculous and just shows how annoying gaming can be. I deleted most of my launchers already because updating 5+ different ones is waste of time and space. At least organizing my physical collection is easy to do because digital stores don't seem to want to help with organization or anything.
It takes a few minutes at best to update a launcher. I don't think that's annoying at all but I do agree that needing a launcher for all your launcher is ridiculous.
SmashingSnow a few hours in my case. There are stretches of time that I have download speeds of less than 10 kilobytes a second. (This is rural USA too)
@@606hunter1 Holy crap that is awful. I can only imagine having download speeds that slow
SmashingSnow many parts of the world (developed and undeveloped) have speeds around or lower than that. According to research the worldwide population has a 56% rate of access to the internet. The average global speed is around 5 mbps but for those that fall far underneath that are screwed.
@@606hunter1 That is just awful I live on the East Coast and thankfully have decent internet speed
Need for Speed outro music!
I was just checking out Razer cortex the other day and it blew my mind how much they updated it since I last saw. It's really starting to turn itself around
Amazing video as always!
Here a good solution: Lutris. You don't even need to swap launchers, just click the game.
My boi steam is good. I don't need anything else.
im happy jet moto 2 isnt forgotten. thank you.
RAYCE! I'M DYING HERE! Where's the new stuff? You got some serious fans out here, Sir. Can't wait to see what you dissect next!!
I miss the time when I was able to buy a game, type in the CD-KEY, install the game and play it without ANY registration or 3rd party service, game launcher or a meta launcher (really... WTF?!).
Bring back Videogames!
Was even better when we didn't have to type in a CD-key.
No, don't give it to discord, you're just asking for trouble.
The communist furry horde, no thanks.
Discord is botnet trash filled with attention whores and run by degenerates.
Who gives a fuck, it works great. And that matters, not the developers' fetishes and sexuality.
@@HoutarouOrekiOsu Because when said degenerates and communists are removing servers with no justification given because they disagreed with the opinions of those running discord, it does matter.
There was a massive fiasco only a month or two ago about Discord being perfectly okay with 'cub' furry porn and banning those who had the gall to call them out on it. Between this and nuking servers following Christchurch with no reason given even if they weren't remotely connected to that got me fucking mad. An origami and history discords I was in got deleted because someone linked the CC manifesto once, even though it was swiftly deleted.
@@scrooglemcdoogle Well then you're right, haven't heard of that. Just about them being furries.
Found out about launch box searching for a way to unite my touhou games with my steam library. after about a week with the free version I LOVE IT. not only do I have a visually comfortable AND information friendly, plus little features like adding a music file to play when you select a game in the launcher just makes me nostalgic for the when I still had my WII.
I dug that video a lot thank you
Wow, I had no idea the life of a gamer was *_so damn hard_*
What can I say, we are the most oppressed group in history.
All you need is a gaming chair my fellow gamer
Well, if a _launcher_ such as EGS wouldn't allow someone without a Credit Card or a PayPal account to pay, it kinda is hard lol--as 87.5% of Asian players found out recently:
www.pcgamesn.com/steam-active-users
tarek alsaidy on PC it is
I've noticed as well that Origin, and Steam don't play well together. To the point I have to close one to comfortably use the other.
I'm at the point where all of my launchers are pinned on my start menu, and I close all the other launchers except the one I need to preserve performance.
Really interesting video Ray. I know I personally don't mind going through a half dozen launchers to play my games, but I do have friends who have been remiss to play some really great titles like Titanfall or Rainbow Six just because they don't want to go through the trouble. With Twitch and Epic suddenly jumping in the launcher game I think a piece of software like this is gonna be something people really need in the coming years.
Launchbox is fantastic, when I built my arcade machine this summer, I bought launchbox to help me have an easy way to select different arcade games. I would highly recommend it.
Wow. Suddenly my poor-man's death grip on console-only gaming isn't as sub-optimal as I thought.
Physical media has its advantages, its a shame current gen consoles are just shittier dumbed down computers that take just as long to update games.
I miss popping a disc into my console and getting straight into a game.
as long as you have fun games the fps etc. is al extra. i love my pc but a good ol console is great also
there was a time when steam was the only store/game launcher...
@@totallynuts7595 right? That's what sucks of the whole situation. I'll still get into PC as much as I can even with my laptop, which won't be much, but its still a sticky situation.
Oh dear I've never been this early, I should probably say something clever
good to hear iamthekidyouknowwhatimean - Run again.
The best thing about this video is that it introduced me to the dozens of hilarious troll "download ram" websites
It exposed me too.
@@Raycevick 🤣
@@Raycevick The video is great itself also, love your stuff
I mean you could... but you could also not install 18 Launchers and save money.
@@Aribbonofsoundmen I dunno, living with only 1 launcher here and proud.
How would that save money?
@@TheRibbonRed same here,only steam.
Steam or bust, no interest in chinese spyware launchers like EPIC games.
@@tigerfestivals5137 In that you'd be less exposed to marketing and thus less likely to buy something
There is a crazy feature called a games folder. When u install games download them to your desktop . Put them in a games folder and BAM look at that. 😂👌
Jet Moto! I've been thinking the same thing for years. Jet Moto 2 was such a fantastic game.