mxve/alterware-launcher

AlterWare.dev updater & launcher | Call of Duty mods

alterware-launcher's Issues

IW4x (and IW4-sp) always auto-update and install the same files but never launch the game

As the title says, whenever i try to launch this game using the alterware launcher or double clicking from the files, it just goes to auto-update and install the same files, they are:

-IW4x_00.iwd
-IW4x_01.iwd
-iw4x/html/script.js
-zone/patch/iw4x_patch_mp.ff
-zone/patch/iw4x_localized_english.ff
-zone/patch/iw4x_code_post_gfx_mp.ff
-zone/patch/iw4x_ui_mp.ff
-iw_dlc10-00.iwd

even after waiting for these files to download, the game seemingly never launches at all, is there any solution?

crash on open

Error:
IO(Custom { kind: InvalidData, error: WebPKIError(UnknownIssuer) })', src\http.rs:12:13
note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace

self-update

Clean up code

Replace http_req with reqwest

Rewrite functions in http.rs using reqwest to drop http_req dependency

save file hashes & add force flag

calculating the hashes of large files slows down the launching

Accept Game path as argument

[http]: Investigate generic IO error

Some users get this error:

Error:
Could not get body from http://cdn.alterware.ovh/games.json, got:
Error: IO error

When asked to manually use Powershell and curl or their web browser we can find out they can access the site just fine.

The user that got the launcher error ran Curl as admin:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1145456435518525611/1207803408082534549/333.png

And on their browser as non-admin, I hope:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1145456435518525611/1207801266730700880/img.png

I think this means there is no AV interference, no ISP interference, and no VPN of any kind because they can access the site with basic programs like Curl.

We need to find out if the rust library we use is trolling or not

Improve self-updating

• Restart self?
• Don't wait for input when "update" is set, set return code so it can be detected 5842386

[iw4x] make the launcher work only if...

"references" are found in the same directory.

otherwise display a fatal error the game folder must be used (drop the launcher there)

Windows Defender

When agreeing to "Download bonus content" in the launcher, Windows Defender flags iw4-sp.exe as :"Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.H!ml"

Detect installed Steam games

https://github.com/WilliamVenner/steamlocate-rs

[http]: Investigate why some users got generic TLS error

Even though we switched the CDN to plain HTTP protocol, that should be regarded as a temporary solution.
It's clear to me there is something very fishy going on with the dependencies this project uses for HTTPs queries.

Ideally, we would need to find a library that can be tweaked like Curl on C++

curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);

https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST.html

I suspect that when the old XLabs launcher used these settings no one ever had the issue the AW launcher has.

Any HTTPS/TLS library in Rust that can promise to tweak these settings (equivalent from Curl) should be used and tried so we can go back to HTTPS.

[https]: add option to toggle https

I never had a problem with https so please add an option to toggle it back on in the json file. thanks.

no steam command?

play without steam?

Offer shortcut creation if running for the first time

[IW4x]: Only download iw4x-sp.exe If SP is selected

If a user presses 1 (IW4x) should not get downloaded at all to prevent AVs from complaining.
Since the client is only used by a sub portion of users it will drive down the number of people complaining.

consider new name for .iw4xrevision

The file should be hidden by default on Linux because of the dot in the name.
Consider replacing the dot with a new character like an exclamation mark

[to investigate] files listed under the sha1 checksum file are not re-acquired after deletion

It seems that deleting files listed under the sha1 checksum files does not automatically re-trigger a download.

I tried deleting iw4x_code_post_gfx_mp.ff and after restarting the launcher it was not re-downloaded.

I think that even if a file is listed under the checksum file it should be simply checked every restart if it still exists before continuing (or re-download it if missing)

Error: Could not get body from https://master.alterware.dev/games.json, got: Error: IO error

It did this when I tried to install the launcher