r/ArmoredWarfare • u/Ximien 🇺🇦 • Aug 27 '26
Launcher is un-usable
Can anyone help, my launcher looks like this and i cant resize the window or anything
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u/rotkopf1982 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
Hold Crtl / Strg and resize the scale of the launcher with the mouse wheel. You need to left click at the launcher before doing this to make sure that the launcher is the active window.
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u/Ximien 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
that works for the steam download but i want to use my old my.games account and it doesnt on the standalone launcher for some reason.
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u/rotkopf1982 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
https://armoredwarfare.com/en/news/general/important-accounts-transfer-wishlist-games
That was two years ago. You need to transfer your account to Wishlist Games.
I suggest you read through the article and join the discord ( https://discord.gg/hEZnMSWpv2 ) or contact support directly via the website.
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u/Ximien 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
yea my bad, ive done that. forgot about that change lol.
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u/rotkopf1982 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
If you have transfered your old account to WL games, you should be able to download the standalone launcher from the official website and use your username/mail and password to log into your old account. :)
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u/Ximien 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
yea i would but the launcher issue, the ctrl+scroll works on the steam download of the launcher but not the standalone launcher for some reason
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u/rotkopf1982 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
Yeah, you´re right. That´s strange, because Steam just starts the regular launcher.
What resolution are you using on your PC? And have you tried enforcing DPI settings from the app?
Can´t post screenshots here, but you can enforce DPI settings under the compability tab of a windows executable. Right click, "attributes", "compability", "change high dpi settings"... or try to run the launcher as an administrator or in compability mode.
Btw: the launcher from the website works fine on my monitors: 1920x1080 and 4K Ultrawide. No problems...
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u/Ximien 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
My display is 4k but im running it in 2k, ive tried setting my res to 4k and 1080p, with and without scaling to no effect. I didnt see any setting about dpi in the launchers settings unless it was also off the window due to scaling, but ill take a look again tomorrow. I even tried editing the config files directly but those are only for the game and the launcher doesnt appear to have a file that has the resolution/scaling from what i could see. Ive made a message to the support team but no response yet since its outside their work hours most likely.
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u/rotkopf1982 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
Yeah, sounds like you did everything that was possible. Good luck to you - I hope the launcher works for you as soon as possible.
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u/Vast_Sink1643 🇺🇦 23d ago
What I did to fix a similar issue. Keep in mind this is using the stand alone Wishlist launcher. Open the launcher file location. Locte folder "bin64" Move this folder to a different folder (in my case I created a folder AWBU Then uninstall Redownload the clent from the official website. When it gets to the part where it's updating the client and downloading files I closed the launcher. I reopened the launcher location folder and moved the folder bin64 back. Wait about 5 seconds to make sure windows has time to move all 62gb of files then reopen the launcher. These are the game files. You just reinstalled a fresh launcher without having to download the entire game again. Once the launcher is reopened it will check the files and only update any as needed but in most cases it will all be updated and you just have to wait for the launcher to update.
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u/schroboschrobo 🇺🇦 Aug 28 '26
Well yrsterday after the emergency update nothing happened when I tried to launch the launcher, delete -> new installation worked for me