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great idea, cant wait to try it out, I do already have 1 suggestion tho. How about...
Slim Browser WORKING Version, that would be really cool
same old same old I guess, nice try bb but nm eh :)
Have you looked at the FAQ (http://www.thesettlersonline.com/en/help-and-support/slimbrowser) for help
yep durin tried all that. maybe its a win10 issue, hope so coz then I can try it out when it gets resolved :)
Too bad it uses chromium.
Comparing the system requirements with my PC - this thing is fat. :)
For anyone who may be curious about what exactly a "Slim Browser Version" is exactly, since neither the homepage nor the FAQ (http://www.thesettlersonline.com/en/help-and-support/slimbrowser) really explain it, and even the download page (http://www.thesettlersonline.com/en/download-game) is a little sparse, here are two posts borrowed from .net that might help:
The "Slim Browser Version" (like the one they released for Anno Online) is a stand-alone, single-task browser. It works better if you have Chrome installed as it uses a different flash but you don't need Chrome to be installed for it to work.
I don't like to run Anno or TSO in the browser that I use for everything else b/c it bogs it down, adds memory, etc, so I have multiple web-browsers installed so I can basically dedicate on to TSO, one to Anno, and one to everything I use a browser for.
It's a higher overall memory use but the independent applications work better which means that browsing, TSO, and Anno each work better and are individually more responsive.
I used the slim version for Anno Online but I probably won't for TSO b/c I have a to-do list addon for the browser I set aside for TSO and I use it pretty heavily and it's convenient. The biggest downside I've noticed so far is the control bar on the right seems to be unhideable.
Click here for original (http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/threads/22974-Settlers-Online-Slim-Browser-Version?p=268823&viewfull=1#post268823)
The Slim Browser version is simply a bundle including a web browser (based on Chromium) and all the necessary add-ons to run the game. Is it configured to use the best settings for the game by default. You can play the game, access the forums and contact Customer Support through it.
We mention Google Chrome because it comes with a special Flash plugin which is often faster and offers better game performance than the original Adobe Plugin. The Slim Browser is compatible with both Flash Plugin versions.
Click here for original (http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/threads/22974-Settlers-Online-Slim-Browser-Version?p=268830&viewfull=1#post268830)
All this assuming of course it's working properly. :rolleyes: GL vigabrand!
I tried it out for about 5 minutes - it did not seem to be able to load.
Not sure it would work for me anyway. I like to have lots of browser tabs open, Sim in one, notes and guides- other games ...
If it could solve the endless flash crash problem, then maybe I could be tempted, - but then it would have to work faster and more smooth than it does in my favourite browser.
Forgot to tell that I am using win 10
needtoplay
14.01.16, 18:11
It is working ok for me in win 10.
I would like to be able to remove the vertical toolbar down the left hand side, it takes up too much of the playong area.
...you clearly didn't stated the publisher`s name, so windows smart screen is acting like this, could you fix this problem (error) ? Cause stating publisher`s name and fixing this problem could open many doors to lets say you putting this game on the Microsoft Store (which you haven`t do) allowing X-BOX players to login with their accounts.
http://i.imgur.com/7oCY7zB.jpg?1
Please run a quick update...
MuffinMule
15.01.16, 01:06
Got quite enthused about this until after wading through the FAQs I discovered that it's Pepper Flash. :(
Pass.
MuffinMule
15.01.16, 05:28
great idea, cant wait to try it out, I do already have 1 suggestion tho. How about...
Slim Browser WORKING Version, that would be really cool
same old same old I guess, nice try bb but nm eh :)
You only have to google "pepper flash" and read some of the tech forums that appear.
It's choosy which websites it wants to play with, often more laggy than normal, and worst of all, Google's inability to allow it to update in good time nor provide a path where you can force it do so manually. When trying to avoid a critical exploit, this is inexcusable. And Chromium + Chrome will never be "slim" until google stop loading them with spyware.
Nice idea, wrong choice.
Care to elaborate on that, why is Pepper Flash bad?
Please make sure to contact support if you are experiencing any issues with the Slim Browser.
Thank you!
I would like to be able to remove the vertical toolbar down the left hand side, it takes up too much of the playong area.
Ctrl + Shift + F Hide / show the right menu bar
thx for comments, just don't work for me, but at least I helped some1 else in a small way :)
ok my bad, i'm an idiot...
sry bb i missed 1 of the steps in the FAQ!
can u set it to open on the proper log in page so i dont have to click "already registered"?
trying to use it now but its hard for us half blind players, text is very small, so off to support as ravel suggested...
You only have to google "pepper flash" and read some of the tech forums that appear.
It's choosy which websites it wants to play with, often more laggy than normal, and worst of all, Google's inability to allow it to update in good time nor provide a path where you can force it do so manually. When trying to avoid a critical exploit, this is inexcusable. And Chromium + Chrome will never be "slim" until google stop loading them with spyware.
Nice idea, wrong choice.
Spyware, apps, bloatware, apps, creeping featuritus, apps, wannabe android lite, apps, fb integration oh and did I mention those farfing APPS.
Chromium is the open source base of Chrome without any Google customizations and applications.
It doesn't have the flash plugin distributed with it so that's the reason why Chrome is also needed.
Sinister-King
15.01.16, 22:54
This thing doesn't work on Mac either ... I've tried Western (Mac OS Roman) and Western (Mac Mail) no idea what the difference is but regardless, none work.
Salem_Warrior_1
16.01.16, 09:13
working gr8, seams more stable, less lag and vsiting frends island faster, no limbo
ty BB
The slim browser is not working for me. When i run the exe is running. I got a "strnlen" error (c++) which cannot located in msvcrt.dll. After installing (in test env) c++ redist package includes the net 4.0 framework the slim browser is still not working. It always ends to a "connection lost" picture.
Afterall, why do i need to install useless (c++) package to my computer in order for a non working "browser"?
Interesting, somehow it only installs and suddenly works only in Spanish...In browser I had English version normally, how do I change it?! Somehow I go on Spanish version and back to level 1..I logged in like I normally login on webbrowser...
Interesting, somehow it only installs and suddenly works only in Spanish...In browser I had English version normally, how do I change it?! Somehow I go on Spanish version and back to level 1..I logged in like I normally login on webbrowser...
On the first page you have to click on the "Already registered?" -button.
Did that and made sure to login before downloading also...hmm
Did that and made sure to login before downloading also...hmm
then make sure from the top left corner that you are on the European English server
Also did that, anyway dont want to hijack this thread, will send support a mail.
I've been playing with the lightweight browser since it released and I quite like it. I've had much fewer problems than previous when I was running the game in Firefox. Flash does not like to run too many things at the same time it seems and I often had Flash crash on me when I loaded a website that had some kind of Flash content, which still seems to be most of them. Since I moved to the dedicated client, I have had no problems so that's good.
However, there are some things that need improving. The thing needs a proper process name. It's currently a handful of processes all called nw.exe. Please change that to reflect the actual process. It currently looks like spyware. Another problem is that the client defaults to full screen. That's annoying design. Let it remember the last setting like almost all other software do. I like to run it in a full screen window because I do a lot of other stuff while playing. TSO is a background game for me and having to reduce the size from full screen down to a small window and back up to a large window is unnecessary work. Not entirely sure about the design of the side menu either. The Ctrl + Shift + F to hide it isn’t really an intuitive command. I wonder if a simple burger icon in a corner would have been a simpler solution. Or just a hidden top menu bar that appears on mouse over. It seems like the design is to make good use of the widescreen format but the menu takes quite a lot of screen real-estate.
Another thing that is related is the log-in screen. Why does it always assume that I’m a new player? It makes much more sense to assume that I’m an old player so it should show the log in stuff first. Let the new players push an extra button to get to the screen to create a new account. The normal website has a big button labelled Log In and a bar at the top where I can log in as well. It uses a cookie or similar to remember my username so then it should be able to remember that I have an account and show me that screen first.
Overall a great idea. It runs better than the normal Flash version in Firefox on my ancient laptop. Just some small nit-picks to sort out.
Got quite enthused about this until after wading through the FAQs I discovered that it's Pepper Flash. :(
Pass.
Looks like the regular version is also running Pepper Flash too now. I got a different crash message just now saying that Pepper Flash had stopped instead of the usual Shockwave message.
Chrome uses the Pepper plugin and since September 1, 2015 it hasn't supported the NPAPI plugin that can be downloaded from Adobe.
Is there any way of starting it up without going to full screen? The moment I click to start the browser, I have to stop doing what I am doing until it has started (which can take a while), and then take it out of full screen before proceeding. It would also be good if it could remember I have played before, and perhaps remember my password like my old browser did.
Is there any way of starting it up without going to full screen? The moment I click to start the browser, I have to stop doing what I am doing until it has started (which can take a while), and then take it out of full screen before proceeding. It would also be good if it could remember I have played before, and perhaps remember my password like my old browser did.
This is why I dropped by the forums I would also like to know if this is possible because its the only things that bugs me about using this version of the game.
Works great in all other aspects by the way.
I decided to try that slim browser. At the beginning, there is warning that Ubisoft uses cookies. Why? There is no reason for any application (outside browser) to use cookies since it already uses portion of hard disk. How does one delete those cookies or control them in any way. Also, there is no protection of any kind in this browser. With that in mind and Privacy Policy that takes no responsibility for other sites, this browser is possible security risk.
I cannot get it to work. Followed all the instructions. Uninstalled everything. Reinstalled everything. No joy. Back to using a browser.
EasyTarget1
11.03.17, 22:18
The instructions don't cover all the bases. You have to adjust the package.json.defalut file too as that rewrites the package.json file after every game and the pepflashplayer.dll you use has to be the 32bit version found in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash called pepflashplayer32_24_0_0_221.dll. Copy that file, rename it pepflashplayer.dll and add the correct version number to the chromium-args section ie --ppapi-flash-version=24.0.0.221".
The 32bit file size is 17,423KB
package.json.default & package.json should be
{
"name": "The Settlers Online",
"main": "index.html",
"window": {
"title": "The Settlers Online",
"toolbar": false,
"frame": true,
"width": 1400,
"height": 900,
"fullscreen": true,
"icon": "img/icon.png"
},
"webkit": {
"plugin": true
},
"chromium-args": "--in-process-gpu --ignore-certificate-errors --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-webgl --disable-transparency --disable-device-orientation --always-authorize-plugins --ppapi_placeholder --ppapi-flash-path='plugins\\pepflashplayer.dll' --ppapi-flash-version=24.0.0.221",
"buildDate": "2015-10-02 11:04:06"
}
Have fun
Ulysses_Dare
13.11.20, 18:17
The latest version of Flash is 32_32_0_0_445. Does anyone know the build date?
theres a final version of flashplayer released 08/12/2020
Dont worry too much about downloading it, apparently Adobe are going to block any flash content from running within their player on 12/01/2021. I presume this means the slim browser wont work. that dont matter either coz most of us have never got it to work after literally years of trying!
theres a final version of flashplayer released 08/12/2020
Dont worry too much about downloading it, apparently Adobe are going to block any flash content from running within their player on 12/01/2021. I presume this means the slim browser wont work. that dont matter either coz most of us have never got it to work after literally years of trying!
the new client replaces the slim browser so wont matter anyway
do u mean unity? that will (if BB can make it happen (HAHA)) appear 2 months after flash stops working
Mannerheim
13.12.20, 12:41
He means the new downloadable client that will be deployed next week. Unity version will not be here until spring/summer
there is a toggle on toggle off for the bar
the new downloadable client is based on adobe air, once you install it the game runs basically the same as the flash version except it opens a new window when you launch the game in the browser.
He means the new downloadable client that will be deployed next week. Unity version will not be here until spring/summer
the new downloadable client is based on adobe air, once you install it the game runs basically the same as the flash version except it opens a new window when you launch the game in the browser.
Thank you both... I have been away so long and only came back a cpl of days ago I was very confused about this client. fingers crossed for next week then :)
BB_Trafffer
14.12.20, 11:13
That's right, we're replacing Slim Browser with a new "download client" that we'll be using until our Unity Version is up and running.
You can check all the details here (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/37973-TSO-Future-Timeline-amp-Unity-FAQ)!
MuffinMule
15.12.20, 06:39
theres a final version of flashplayer released 08/12/2020
Dont worry too much about downloading it, apparently Adobe are going to block any flash content from running within their player on 12/01/2021. I presume this means the slim browser wont work. that dont matter either coz most of us have never got it to work after literally years of trying!
If you go through the FAQs on Adobe's site they also say they won't be blocking flash content from the player until June.
However, wonder if BB have read this?
unity3d.com/webplayer%20
If you go through the FAQs on Adobe's site they also say they won't be blocking flash content from the player until June.
However, wonder if BB have read this?
unity3d.com/webplayer%20
wont make any difference
"Adobe will no longer support Flash Player after December 31 2020, and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12 2021; Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems," Adobe warns users.
Once January 12th is reached, even if a browser supports Flash or you explicitly allow a website to use it, Flash Player will no longer load the content
However, wonder if BB have read this?
unity3d.com/webplayer%20
And if you read it, you would have seen that it says "If you want to deliver Unity made content via web browser we recommend you use WebGL."
I've seen nothing from BB that states they will be using "Unity Webplayer", just that they are moving to Unity.
Gekke-Gerrit
15.12.20, 11:04
wont make any difference
"Adobe will no longer support Flash Player after December 31 2020, and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12 2021; Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems," Adobe warns users.
Once January 12th is reached, even if a browser supports Flash or you explicitly allow a website to use it, Flash Player will no longer load the content
HARMAN will offer support and security updates to Adobe Flash Player and can provide solutions until the end of 2023 and beyond.
this is a very old topic . pls let it die in peace
HARMAN will offer support and security updates to Adobe Flash Player and can provide solutions until the end of 2023 and beyond.
Only if a company uses it if they dont then their flash content wont work
What OS is this new 'downloadable client' compatible with?
I'm getting 'not compatible with your version of windows'
MuffinMule
16.12.20, 06:13
wont make any difference
"Adobe will no longer support Flash Player after December 31 2020, and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12 2021; Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems," Adobe warns users.
Once January 12th is reached, even if a browser supports Flash or you explicitly allow a website to use it, Flash Player will no longer load the content
Afraid Adobe contradict this in the FAQs and state that they will NOT block Flash Player from running Flash content until June 2021.
My reading of that is that browser + Adobe Flash Player eg: Firefox will continue to play content until June (at our own risk of course).
Whereas, browser + internal Flash eg: Chrome and pepperflash will be down to the browser company & will probably be zapped in January.
MuffinMule
16.12.20, 06:23
And if you read it, you would have seen that it says "If you want to deliver Unity made content via web browser we recommend you use WebGL."
I've seen nothing from BB that states they will be using "Unity Webplayer", just that they are moving to Unity.
Exactly, it's too vague.
It's reasonable to assume that BB wish this to remain a browser based game, logically that could be using Unity webplayer.
Or will we be moving to a client based system?
Not enough info.
Just hope they don't make the same mistakes King/Royal games did, started porting their games to HTML5 and suddenly they don't work on machines with 32bit browsers or Windoze.
Looks like the muppets did the work on a full 64bit system and didn't check for dependencies/compatability.
Basilisk did similar with the Linux versions of the Eschalon series, versions 2 and 3 asked for dlls not common on most stable versions, only the bleeding edge ones.
Mannerheim
16.12.20, 11:17
Afraid Adobe contradict this in the FAQs and state that they will NOT block Flash Player from running Flash content until June 2021.
My reading of that is that browser + Adobe Flash Player eg: Firefox will continue to play content until June (at our own risk of course).
Whereas, browser + internal Flash eg: Chrome and pepperflash will be down to the browser company & will probably be zapped in January.
Adobe's own employees said on the forums that it will blocked by then and people have investigated that the runtime plugin has had a timed kill switch built in for over 6 months. Things may have changed but regardless what the exact date is BB has already said that you can no longer login with any browser when the new downloadable version comes.
Exactly, it's too vague.
It's reasonable to assume that BB wish this to remain a browser based game, logically that could be using Unity webplayer.
No. Unity webplayer was deprecated several years ago and it was removed from Unity. All browsers also removed the interface that the plugin used so it's impossible for BB to use it even if they wanted. https://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/08/unity-web-player-roadmap/
What PaulG said is correct, BB will use the WebGL export with Unity which has been the only browser play option in the game engine for a long time.
BB_Trafffer
16.12.20, 13:39
We are not using the web player version of Unity, but WebGL.
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:02
so all of us using a mac can now not log in
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:13
BB why dont you just take the game down and fix the problem till we can all log in
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:19
Traffer what do us mac users do do we got all our prem time back when this is fixed
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:24
BB_Trafffer you gone in hiding what do all us mac users do
AstaBridget
18.12.20, 15:25
I am a Windows 10 user. Can´t get into the game. Anybody else have that problem? When I have downloaded the client and try to install, my pop ups and text do not correspond with the user manual BB put up.
TiTaKa1503
18.12.20, 15:25
https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/38014
you can read it from here.
answer to kevin
Mannerheim
18.12.20, 15:26
"MacOS: We'd like to make further optimisations and polish to the Mac Client, we're aiming to launch it in early January. Currently, only the Windows client is available. We sincerely apologize for the delay."
https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/38014-LIVESERVER-New-downloadable-client?p=360567#post360567
AstaBridget
18.12.20, 15:29
https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/38014
you can read it from here.
answer to kevin
Yes, thank you - I saw that. My computer does not have the same pop ups - at all.
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:33
flash does not go till 12 jan so why not wait till we can all log in cant be that hard to reverse this update
Mannerheim
18.12.20, 15:39
flash does not go till 12 jan so why not wait till we can all log in cant be that hard to reverse this update
That's the date for the kill switch timer. Before that various browsers and other stuff do flash support removal which would still lead in to the problem for not everyone being able to play.
That's the date for the kill switch timer. Before that various browsers and other stuff do flash support removal which would still lead in to the problem for not everyone being able to play.
You mean like now, most can't play
Mannerheim
18.12.20, 15:44
You mean like now, most can't play
Well, lots of people can play but I don't know how many can or not. In our server there a a lot of people in and for example almost half of the active players in our guild have logged in since the update.
So either way they do it someone can't play.
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:46
they had like a year to sort this out now all of us using a mac cant log in
kevinblack
18.12.20, 15:48
you need a windows 10 or you are stuffed
Mannerheim
18.12.20, 15:59
you need a windows 10 or you are stuffed
Windows 7 with latest updates also works for many
lockwood81
21.11.22, 09:43
Does anyone know how to log back into my Ubisoft account after logging in through facebook. i cant buy gems
BB_Trafffer
22.11.22, 12:47
Does anyone know how to log back into my Ubisoft account after logging in through facebook. i cant buy gems
Please check this guide (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/38001-Ubisoft-Guide-Step-by-Step). If you have any issues, don't hesitate to get in touch with our Support Team.
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