How to make the launcher launch eso64.exe

Hartukktu

Open a command prompt in Admin mode. Go to the directory with eso64.exe (for me it was in a directory 'client' ). execute

Ren eso.exe eso.exe.bak
mklink eso.exe eso64.exe

done.

Shadowshire

Ummm..... I don't think that this will work so well after the next patch maintenance in which eso.exe is modified. If the updating feature in Launcher cannot find eso.exe then it might abort. Regardless, it will download and install an updated eso.exe file.

We would be better off to install the 64-bit client and its associated files in a separate directory tree, which is what Microsoft recommended for Windows 7 (whether subsequently). The root directory tree contains:

C:\Program Files for 64-bit software
and
C:\Program Files (x86) for 32-bit software

Since ESO began as 32-bit software for the PC it was installed in C:\Program Files (x86) but now that the 64-bit client has been introduced, it should be installed in C:\Program Files. The 32-bit and 64-bit files should be separated properly to facilitate error-free updating, upgrading and archiving.

But Bethesda and Z.O. are all about whatever is expedient and time-saving for them, regardless of the potential consequences of their short sighted quick-and-dirty-programming practices for their customers, the players.

Hartukktu

Yeah it's a Quick and Dirty:

Ben Poole wrote:

Long after quick has gone, dirty remains

Note: Ben Poole is a member of quite a different universe, that of mobile and web applications, and a Domino guru. I found this bit of wisdom to apply universally though.

I gues I should have put a YMMV in, but that went against the intended terseness in the original post. As in: if the reader experiences discomfort, the post is not appropiate.

I am curious to see what happens come next patch.