Posted May 25, 20169 yr Okay. My MineCraft still crashes if I open the launcher with the provided shortcut, but it seems to work fine if I open the launcher by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\game\launcher.jar" instead of "Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe" Is this safe?
May 25, 20169 yr Author Okay. My MineCraft still crashes if I open the launcher with the provided shortcut, but it seems to work fine if I open the launcher by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\game\launcher.jar" instead of "Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe" Is this safe?
May 26, 20169 yr Okay. My MineCraft still crashes if I open the launcher with the provided shortcut, but it seems to work fine if I open the launcher by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\game\launcher.jar" instead of "Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe" Is this safe? Can I ask what OS you're using? Could I also ask for you to provide your Java version? I've never seen the MinecraftLauncher.exe NOT work and the jar file WORK, the usual case is that the .exe works but the .jar doesn't. http://i.imgur.com/vmqyxTE.png[/img]
May 26, 20169 yr Okay. My MineCraft still crashes if I open the launcher with the provided shortcut, but it seems to work fine if I open the launcher by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\game\launcher.jar" instead of "Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe" Is this safe? Can I ask what OS you're using? Could I also ask for you to provide your Java version? I've never seen the MinecraftLauncher.exe NOT work and the jar file WORK, the usual case is that the .exe works but the .jar doesn't. http://i.imgur.com/vmqyxTE.png[/img]
May 26, 20169 yr Author Okay. My MineCraft still crashes if I open the launcher with the provided shortcut, but it seems to work fine if I open the launcher by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\game\launcher.jar" instead of "Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe" Is this safe? Can I ask what OS you're using? Could I also ask for you to provide your Java version? I've never seen the MinecraftLauncher.exe NOT work and the jar file WORK, the usual case is that the .exe works but the .jar doesn't. I'm using Windows 10 and the default Java for MineCraft. The MinecraftLauncher.exe works for vanilla, but crashes when trying to start Forge. launcher.jar does not crash when starting Forge.
May 26, 20169 yr Author Okay. My MineCraft still crashes if I open the launcher with the provided shortcut, but it seems to work fine if I open the launcher by "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\game\launcher.jar" instead of "Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe" Is this safe? Can I ask what OS you're using? Could I also ask for you to provide your Java version? I've never seen the MinecraftLauncher.exe NOT work and the jar file WORK, the usual case is that the .exe works but the .jar doesn't. I'm using Windows 10 and the default Java for MineCraft. The MinecraftLauncher.exe works for vanilla, but crashes when trying to start Forge. launcher.jar does not crash when starting Forge.
May 26, 20169 yr Author post logs I was just asking if launcher.jar is safe to use since MinecraftLauncher.exe wouldn't work with Forge. Was unsure since launcher.jar took some digging to get to.
May 26, 20169 yr Author post logs I was just asking if launcher.jar is safe to use since MinecraftLauncher.exe wouldn't work with Forge. Was unsure since launcher.jar took some digging to get to.
May 27, 20169 yr Well, There is no MinecraftLauncher.exe in linux, starting launcher.jar directly is safe in this system (May be I have to check if it there is an update sometimes). Shoud be the same on Windows 10: The exe file may be only a easy way to finally start "java -jar launcher.jar" Phpr
May 27, 20169 yr Well, There is no MinecraftLauncher.exe in linux, starting launcher.jar directly is safe in this system (May be I have to check if it there is an update sometimes). Shoud be the same on Windows 10: The exe file may be only a easy way to finally start "java -jar launcher.jar" Phpr
May 27, 20169 yr The difference between the .exe launcher and the .jar launcher is that the .exe launcher use it's own Java version (the one it downloads to c:\program files (x86)\runtime\) to run the launcher and Minecraft while the .jar will use whatever Java it can find installed. I'm not sure if it behaves differently on different computers but when I tried installing the .exe it downloaded and used a slightly outdated 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.25) and if I run the .jar directly it use my regular more up to date 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.92). Running the launcher either way works fine, for me, without Minecraft(1.9)/Forge crashing. If you have Java installed anyway, it normally doesn't matter how you run the launcher..both ways are equally safe/unsafe because it's having Java installed at all that can potentially be unsafe. You should be more concerned about why Minecraft crash when you launch it via the .exe than whether it's safe to run the .jar directly or not (partly because we can't really tell without knowing why the .exe is crashing). Allthough unlikely it could be because the launcher has been tampered with and that, if anything, would be unsafe. So, logs!
May 27, 20169 yr The difference between the .exe launcher and the .jar launcher is that the .exe launcher use it's own Java version (the one it downloads to c:\program files (x86)\runtime\) to run the launcher and Minecraft while the .jar will use whatever Java it can find installed. I'm not sure if it behaves differently on different computers but when I tried installing the .exe it downloaded and used a slightly outdated 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.25) and if I run the .jar directly it use my regular more up to date 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.92). Running the launcher either way works fine, for me, without Minecraft(1.9)/Forge crashing. If you have Java installed anyway, it normally doesn't matter how you run the launcher..both ways are equally safe/unsafe because it's having Java installed at all that can potentially be unsafe. You should be more concerned about why Minecraft crash when you launch it via the .exe than whether it's safe to run the .jar directly or not (partly because we can't really tell without knowing why the .exe is crashing). Allthough unlikely it could be because the launcher has been tampered with and that, if anything, would be unsafe. So, logs!
May 28, 20169 yr Author The difference between the .exe launcher and the .jar launcher is that the .exe launcher use it's own Java version (the one it downloads to c:\program files (x86)\runtime\) to run the launcher and Minecraft while the .jar will use whatever Java it can find installed. I'm not sure if it behaves differently on different computers but when I tried installing the .exe it downloaded and used a slightly outdated 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.25) and if I run the .jar directly it use my regular more up to date 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.92). Running the launcher either way works fine, for me, without Minecraft(1.9)/Forge crashing. If you have Java installed anyway, it normally doesn't matter how you run the launcher..both ways are equally safe/unsafe because it's having Java installed at all that can potentially be unsafe. You should be more concerned about why Minecraft crash when you launch it via the .exe than whether it's safe to run the .jar directly or not (partly because we can't really tell without knowing why the .exe is crashing). Allthough unlikely it could be because the launcher has been tampered with and that, if anything, would be unsafe. So, logs! I posted the logs in a previous topic here. No one saw any errors, so the assumption was there's an outside program messing with it. My protection does not detect any viruses, the Java version doesn't seem to be the problem since setting it to use the regular Java (jre1.8.0_91 from Java.com) doesn't let the .exe launch Forge, and already tried reinstalling from minecraft.net If .jar is safe to use, than the .exe is dead to me. Why wouldn't I want it to default to the more recent Java anyway?
May 28, 20169 yr Author The difference between the .exe launcher and the .jar launcher is that the .exe launcher use it's own Java version (the one it downloads to c:\program files (x86)\runtime\) to run the launcher and Minecraft while the .jar will use whatever Java it can find installed. I'm not sure if it behaves differently on different computers but when I tried installing the .exe it downloaded and used a slightly outdated 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.25) and if I run the .jar directly it use my regular more up to date 64-bit version of Java 8 (1.8.92). Running the launcher either way works fine, for me, without Minecraft(1.9)/Forge crashing. If you have Java installed anyway, it normally doesn't matter how you run the launcher..both ways are equally safe/unsafe because it's having Java installed at all that can potentially be unsafe. You should be more concerned about why Minecraft crash when you launch it via the .exe than whether it's safe to run the .jar directly or not (partly because we can't really tell without knowing why the .exe is crashing). Allthough unlikely it could be because the launcher has been tampered with and that, if anything, would be unsafe. So, logs! I posted the logs in a previous topic here. No one saw any errors, so the assumption was there's an outside program messing with it. My protection does not detect any viruses, the Java version doesn't seem to be the problem since setting it to use the regular Java (jre1.8.0_91 from Java.com) doesn't let the .exe launch Forge, and already tried reinstalling from minecraft.net If .jar is safe to use, than the .exe is dead to me. Why wouldn't I want it to default to the more recent Java anyway?
May 28, 20169 yr Minecraft does not install itself into the ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\"" folder, so We cant tell you what that jar is. However if you download and run the jar launcher from the Minecraft website then yes it is safe to use. The exe is just a wrapper around downloading java and running the normal launcher jar. I do Forge for free, however the servers to run it arn't free, so anything is appreciated. Consider supporting the team on Patreon
May 28, 20169 yr Minecraft does not install itself into the ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\"" folder, so We cant tell you what that jar is. However if you download and run the jar launcher from the Minecraft website then yes it is safe to use. The exe is just a wrapper around downloading java and running the normal launcher jar. I do Forge for free, however the servers to run it arn't free, so anything is appreciated. Consider supporting the team on Patreon
May 28, 20169 yr Author Minecraft does not install itself into the ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\"" folder, so We cant tell you what that jar is. However if you download and run the jar launcher from the Minecraft website then yes it is safe to use. The exe is just a wrapper around downloading java and running the normal launcher jar. The .jar came with everything else. I only found it by opening the file location from the desktop shortcut and trying each .jar hoping for one to do what I need.
May 28, 20169 yr Author Minecraft does not install itself into the ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\"" folder, so We cant tell you what that jar is. However if you download and run the jar launcher from the Minecraft website then yes it is safe to use. The exe is just a wrapper around downloading java and running the normal launcher jar. The .jar came with everything else. I only found it by opening the file location from the desktop shortcut and trying each .jar hoping for one to do what I need.
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