Collapse Launcher v1.0.10 [Codename: Dread Life]

Welcome to the first Stable Release of Collapse Launcher!

Hi! this is me, @neon-nyan... A developer of this launcher project.

I'm really glad to tell you that this launcher has been finally touched to the ground after 4 - 6 months of development, releasing a Stable Release for the first time!

While at the same time, I'm waiting for WinUI 3 (v1.1) to come out that will bring some major changes that this launcher needs. Including "Run as Administrator" feature, new window on different or same thread, deploy with WinUI 3 dependencies (so you don't need to install the runtime), and many more!

Unfortunately, Cutscenes and Subtitle Fix feature hasn't been come out yet but don't worry, I will bring this feature soon!

Without further ado, Let's see what's new in this realase from previous version!

What's new?

• Adding Image Carousel on Home Page
• Adding Support for Genshin Impact Game Client.
  Including these supported releases:
  • Genshin Impact (Global Release)
  • 原神 (Mainland China's Release)
• Adding extraction support for .zip file
• Adding HPatchUtil for Genshin's Update Delta Patch mechanism

What's Fixed and Changed?

• Change Fatal Error URL
• Increment 2 seconds on retrying to load region
• Fix CheckRunningGameInstance() not watching game other than Honkai
• Adding flag for Preview build
• Fix launcher throwing an exception while file isn't exist in Genshin

How to Install?

The app is now moved from UWP Packaged Based App to Normal Win32 Based App. But still, it requires Windows 10 (build 1809 or above) / Windows 11 (Any version) to run since this is a limitation from WinUI 3 Framework itself.

Also, It's necessary to install WinUI 3 Runtime to make this launcher to run.
Please download "prequesties-20220204.7z" file below, Extract it and Run "Install.bat" as Administrator.

Then Run the App With name "CollapseLauncher.exe" to run.
Please note that this app cannot be run under Administrator account. So please just click the app in order to run it

Note

For everyone who's always helping and supporting me to test this project while it's in preview release, Thank you very much!!

CollapseLauncher v1.0.9-pre

What's new?

• Add Social Media Side Panel at Home page.
• Add adaptive color accent support
• Add Steam to Global version conversion.
• Add ErrorHandler Event for sending Unhandled Exceptions.
• Disable Change Region button while the region is still loading
• Use events to navigate LauncherFrame.
• Use DirectX 11 (FL 11.0) by default
• Add sections for caches date in Caches Download.
• Better Region loading time-out handling

What's Fixed?

• Fix significant Storage usage while extracting
• Fix app to crash caused by default BG path & disable console by default.
• Fix uncancelled token in SevenZipTool
• Fix launcher to apply config prematurely while update is getting cancelled.
• Fix summary to return 0 byte if only generic files are missing

How to Install?

The app is now moved from UWP Packaged Based App to Normal Win32 Based App. But still, it requires Windows 10 (build 1809 or above) / Windows 11 (Any version) to run since this is a limitation from WinUI 3 Framework itself.

Also, It's necessary to install WinUI 3 Runtime to make this launcher to run.
Please download "prequesties-20220204.7z" file below, Extract it and Run "Install.bat" as Administrator.

Then Run the App With name "CollapseLauncher.exe" to run.
Please note that this app cannot be run under Administrator account. So please just click the app in order to run it

CollapseLauncher v1.0.7-pre

What's new?

• Adding support for migrating Game installed with BetterHI3Launcher. Click this to see the screenshot
• Revoke the target location if the folder choosen while installing doesn't allow the user to have a write permission. E.g: C:\Program Files. Click this to see the screenshot.
• Adding feature to update the game caches. Click this to see the screenshot.
• Removing "Mirror Changer" dropdown at the titlebar since the feature isn't yet implemented. It will be come back after the feature has completely implemented.
• Adding Console Window toggle. Now you can hide/show the Console Window in the Settings menu. Click here to see it in action.
• Removing "Additional Download" while installing the game since the feature isn't yet implemented. Will be back after the feature has completely implemented.

What's Fixed?

• Fixing CollapseLauncher.Invoker to not running because of missing runtimeconfig.json file
• Avoid localStream on HttpClientTool to not disposed while retrying the connection on Multiple Session mode.
• Properly report a throw while the Http Response is not a success code. For example, 503, 404, 501, etc.

How to Install?

The app is now moved from UWP Packaged Based App to Normal Win32 Based App. But still, it requires Windows 10 (build 1809 or above) / Windows 11 (Any version) to run since this is a limitation from WinUI 3 Framework itself.

Also, It's necessary to install WinUI 3 Runtime to make this launcher to run.
Please download "prequesties-20220204.7z" file below, Extract it and Run "Install.bat" as Administrator.

Then Run the App With name "CollapseLauncher.exe" to run.
Please note that this app cannot be run under Administrator account. So please just click the app in order to run it

CollapseLauncher v1.0.6-rc1-pre

What's new?

• Adding support for migrating Game installed with BetterHI3Launcher

What's Fixed?

• Fixing CollapseLauncher.Invoker compiled to .NET Core 5 instead of .NET Core 6.

How to Install?

The app is now moved from UWP Packaged Based App to Normal Win32 Based App. But still, it requires Windows 10 (build 1809 or above) / Windows 11 (Any version) to run since this is a limitation from WinUI 3 Framework itself.

Also, It's necessary to install WinUI 3 Runtime to make this launcher to run.
Please download "prequesties-20220204.7z" file below, Extract it and Run "Install.bat" as Administrator.

Then Run the App With name "CollapseLauncher.exe" to run.
Please note that this app cannot be run under Administrator account. So please just click the app in order to run it

CollapseLauncher v1.0.5-pre

What's new?

• The program now runs as a normal Win32 app. So you don't need to install this app as a UWP app anymore.
  • But you need the prequesties to be installed in order to make this app to run properly. Please install .NET Core 6 Desktop Runtime and WinUI 3 Runtime first
• Adding an ability to open the Game Folder. Click this to see the screenshot.
• Adding Game log monitoring feature while game is running. You can see the output in the Console Window of this app. This will make troubleshooting easier if you're facing an error in game. The log will also be included into Launcher's Log file.
  • Image Preview:
    Screenshot 1
    Screenshot 2
• Adding Game Repair feature. It will also check the files inside the block file. So instead of downloading the entire block file to repair, It will only download the broken part of the block file. Click this to see the screenshot.
• Adding Game Settings feature. Now you don't need to open the game or change the registry manually to change the custom game settings. Click this to see the screenshot.
• Hi3Helper Project is now completely merged to CollapseLauncher Project.

How to Install?

The app is now moved from UWP Packaged Based App to Normal Win32 Based App. But still, it requires Windows 10 (build 1809 or above) / Windows 11 (Any version) to run since this is a limitation from WinUI 3 Framework itself.

Also, It's necessary to install WinUI 3 Runtime to make this launcher to run.
Please download "prequesties-20220204.7z" file below, Extract it and Run "Install.bat" as Administrator.

Then Run the App With name "CollapseLauncher.exe" to run.
Please note that this app cannot be run under Administrator account. So please just click the app in order to run it

CollapseLauncher v1.0.3-pre

CL-v1.0.3-pre

Add my local commit

CollapseLauncher v1.0.2-pre

CL-v1.0.2-pre

Merge branch 'main' of https://github.com/neon-nyan/Hi3Helper

CollapseLauncher v1.0.0-pre

Welcome to the Initial Preview Release of CollapseLauncher

This release is only supporting multi-region game installation for now.
Further features will be released on each version release.

How to Install?

Unfortunately, Since this app is a WinUI 3 based Application, It will be only supporting Windows 10 build 1803 or later.
Before you're installing this app, make sure that you already enabled "Developer Mode" in:

• Windows 10
  Settings > Update & security > For developers > Developer Mode
  

• Windows 11
  Settings > Privacy & security > For developers > Developer Mode
  

After that, restart your PC to apply the changes.

After you have rebooted, download the .7z file here and then extract it somewhere in your PC.
Right click on "Install.ps1" file and click "Run with PowerShell"

While PowerShell window opened, you may be asked to install the self-assigned certificate for this app.
Press "Enter" key on your keyboard and click "Yes" on "User Account Control" Window

Type "Y" then Press "Enter" to install the self-signed certificate

Wait until the process finished then Press "Enter" to quit from Installation process.
Go to Start menu to open the CollapseLauncher and you're good to go.

[Preview Release] v0.0.2.11

What's new?

• [Improvement] Move to .NET Core 6 and add .NET Framework 4.6.x or later support codebase.
• [Improvement] Separate some core components to Hi3HelperCore in case we are starting to develop the cross-platform version.
  • Use .NET Standard 2.0 codebase for Hi3HelperCore
• [Improvement] Replace Win32 based IniParser to Universal IniParser by Enichan. See this commit for changes.
• [New] Introducing initial implementation of ScreenInterop class to read supported screen resolution list. This component will be used on "Settings Editor" feature in the future.

Major Changes

• [New] Adding a support for Steam Version of the Game. See #6 for more information

• [New] Adding "Block Check" feature to check and repair Game's block data. See #5 for more information

  • This repair mechanism is also better and faster than In-game "Check downloaded assets" feature. See the benchmark result below for more information.

Note

This release has splitted into two versions,

• .NET Framework 4.6.2 version (Hi3HelperGUI-InDev-0.0.2.11.zip)
• .NET Core 6 x64 version (Hi3HelperGUI-InDev-0.0.2.11_NETCore.zip)

If you want to run the .NET Framework version, make sure that you have .NET Framework 4.6.2 Runtime installed. If not, Download Here.
Or if you want to run the .NET Core 6 x64 version, make sure that you have .NET Core 6 x64 Desktop Runtime installed. If not, Download Here.

Benchmark scenario for Block Check feature

Hardware for Benchmark:

• OS: Windows 11 Home Dev [build 22499.1010]
• CPU: Intel Core i5-9300H
• RAM: 16 GB 2667 MHz (DDR4 Dual-Channel)
• SSD: WDC PC SN730 (512 GB Variant)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB VRAM)

Game Version for Benchmark:

Southeast Asia (SEA) v5.2

Broken file: BH3_Data\StreamingAssets\Asb\72deb5429e35e95635a72a3f94229bab.wmv

Corrupted data offset: 0xb00
Corrupted data size: 16 bytes

Expected value:
FF D9 FF 05 EF F0 B3 3C D4 E5 A4 32 73 A9 75 20

Corrupted value:
53 65 65 65 65 65 65 67 67 67 67 67 73 73 73 73

Checking time

• In-game: 27.28 seconds
• Hi3Helper: 19.84 seconds

Download size for Repair:

• In-game: 39.5 MB (the whole file)
• Hi3Helper: 20.7 KB

Repair Time:

• In-game: 17.57 seconds (since it needs to download the whole 39.5 MB file)
• Hi3Helper: 0.53 second

Fast, isn't it? 👀
Now, Try it yourself!

Note for Benchmark

If you want to try this benchmark by yourself, Download 72deb5429e35e95635a72a3f94229bab.wmv file below, copy it to <Honkai Installation Path>\Games\BH3_Data\StreamingAssets\Asb\ folder, run the game, click on red tool button at the left-bottom of your screen, and click "Check downloaded assets". Let the game do the repair process.

For using Hi3Helper, just do the same by copy the file to <Honkai Installation Path>\Games\BH3_Data\StreamingAssets\Asb\ folder, run the program, go to Block Check feature and click on "Check Block" button. Let the program check the corrupted file, then click "Repair".

v0.0.2.0-RC1Preview

This release was based on PR #5 (last commit 2e17a52)