That's going to land well with Origin users who have been accustomed to a slow experience. The new name EA decided to go with? EA Desktop.Īccording to EA senior vice president Michael Blank, "The EA Desktop app is being designed to deliver a frictionless and socially connected experience that is faster for players to get into their games." So it's not just a new name, it's a whole new app that's meant to get you gaming more quickly. We've already seen the subscription service EA Access rebranded as EA Play and EA Play Pro, but now it's time for Origin to disappear. Origin is being retired as a brand and replaced with a new app under a new (not very exciting) name.Īs GamesBeat reports (Opens in a new window), EA is undertaking a rebranding exercise at the moment, which sees the focus put squarely on its own name.
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How to Set Up Two-Factor AuthenticationĮA has been running its own digital games service under the name Origin since 2011, but not for much longer.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.It should be extremely simple to download and run jdupes.exe on the path the application uses. Tomstefanou you may want to build this functionality into your application. You can usually get jdupes here: but at time of writing, you'll need this link, as the latest version has no downloads: So you can drag jdupes into the command prompt, type -Lr, and then drag each folder in-just make sure to add spaces in between paths.
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This will add the full path to that file (including the name of the file itself and any necessary quotes) to the end of the current command line. Tip: you can actually drag entire files and folders into the command prompt from windows explorer.
You can append as many paths as you want to this command just make sure to include the double-quotes around them if you have spaces or other special characters in them. You can get to the command prompt by running cmd.exe from the start menu (or run menu).
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The command you want for jdupes is `c:\path\to\jdupes.exe -Lr "c:\path\to\Zero Hour" "c:\path\to\shockwave" "c:\path\to\contra" "c:\paths\to\other\mods"`.įor example, all my mods are installed in 'J:\games\c&c\mods\ZH' and ZH is installed via both origin and TFD, so I use `c:\programs\jdupes.exe -Lr "J:\Games\C&C\Mods\ZH" "J:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour\Command and Conquer Generals\" "J:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Command & Conquer The First Decade\Command & Conquer(tm) Generals\generals.exe"` Instead of taking up ~5.24gb, ZH, Contra, and Shw will take up ~2.88gb (folder properties will not reflect this as windows explorer doesn't recognize hardlinks, but disk properties will-right click the drive in 'this pc' or 'my computer' and go to properties to view total disk usage before and after linking files)
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This will save you the space the base install takes up for all but one base install. Use jdupes to replace duplicate files with hardlinks this way instead of having 'Zero Hour\generals.exe' and 'Zero Hour Shockwave\generals.exe' and 'Zero Hour Contra\generals.exe' pointing to different parts of the hard drive and taking up a total of 18.5mb, all three will point at the same spot and take up the same 6.5mb of space.
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You could also include a feature, that disables the ZH scripts folder, for mods that use their own AI, and maybe the ability to set custom screen resolutions, and run the mod in quickstart and/or window mode. So if I may make a suggestion, what you could do is make a launcher that looks for mod files saved in a folder inside your ZH folder, and move them to the game folder to run the mod, then after it's done it moves the files back into the mod folder to keep your ZH folder clean. The problem with this method though, is that it uses a lot of space. I use this system, in fact I made a tutorial on how to do it before: Your mods may all be in the EA Games folder, but since they are in seperate ZH folder copies, you don't have to delete the others, you can just run the generals.exe program that is in the folder to run the mod you want. Mods can only interfere with each other if they are installed in the same ZH folder. Uh, I don't know how to break this to you, but if a mod is in a copy of your ZH folder, it has no way of interfering with other mods.