Why is the game being downloaded every time i open it?

[MagicManICT]

Couple things to try:

Check Java's temporary files settings to see if there's a limit in storage. If it's not even on, it will definitely cause problems.

Clean old programs out of cache you no longer use, or just flat clear the cache.

Make sure drive maintenance has been done recently (disk defrag, disk checked for bad files or dead sectors with chkdsk (Windows) ). A disk with a damage file system can lose files at random, and they are usually files in caches or temporary files.

[Nikixos]

I just wanted to throw in that I have this issue with re-downloading the client on each start. I think it appeared about three months ago with a Java-update.

Since then it will take about 3 minutes to download and start every time, but I am not sure if I should roll back to some older Java version to fix it... (saving temporary data is enabled).

What about the others in this thread: how did you solve this issue? I am happy about any information about this.

You can run the client from the commandline like this (you can easily dump it in a .bat):

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start "" java -jar lsalem.jar -U http://game.salemthegame.com/res/ game.salemthegame.com

From the Salem/bin/ directory. If you get some errors about gluegen-rt.dll not being present, you're probably using the wrong version of java and you should try direct links to java:

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start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -jar lsalem.jar -U http://game.salemthegame.com/res/ game.salemthegame.com

I made this video explaining how to fix this. AND since i fixed it months ago and problably everyone having the same problem will end up here, i post the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBNSb0W1V8

[Dexion]

I also have this bug. I have to redownload the game client like once or twice a day which takes up to 30 minutes every time

Thanks for the video tutorial but i would like to know what actually is wrong and how it can be sloved before i apply some workaround which make me miss client updates at all.

[Nikixos]

I also have this bug. I have to redownload the game client like once or twice a day which takes up to 30 minutes every time

Thanks for the video tutorial but i would like to know what actually is wrong and how it can be sloved before i apply some workaround which make me miss client updates at all.

you can open the updater and it downloads the newest patch, the bat files just omit that step. I would be lying if i tell you i know why is this happening.

[PaulVasq]

I have this same problem. Like a previous poster, I checked my Java settings and they are correct.

Also, what is this talk about different clients? I only saw one client when I downloaded the game.

[Nikixos]

I have this same problem. Like a previous poster, I checked my Java settings and they are correct.

Also, what is this talk about different clients? I only saw one client when I downloaded the game.

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Ender and latikai are two different custom clients with more functions than the default one. I don't know how to open the default client with a bat file.

[Kandarim]

you can't open it with a bat file, as it is stored in the java cache (or rather, you really really shouldn't).

Also, make sure your system clock is set correctly. That may or may not affect results.