ESOUI - [Feature] Don't play WoW, please don't waste time checking

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[Feature] Don't play WoW, please don't waste time checking

Hello,
I don't have WoW installed on this machine. I've never played, likely never will. Minion works well for ESO, but I would like it to not check WoW add-ons if WoW is not installed. I'd be okay if I could check a config box saying "Don't spend time checking for updates to not-installed game". I suspect the WoW-only players might like a similar feature.

Or am I missing a feature somewhere that I should have enabled?

Thanks.

Hi jcardiii,

When Minion first started it should have asked if you'd like to scan for each of these games. Although some people who ran an early version of Minion may have not been given this option and Minion just defaulted to try and detect WoW.

Can you post your minion.xml here?

You should see the following code in the minion.xml if you open it in notepad or your favorite editor...

Code:

<game-configs>

<game-config game-id="ESO" scannable="true"/>

<game-config game-id="WOW" scannable="true"/>

</game-configs>

change it to

Code:

<game-configs>

<game-config game-id="ESO" scannable="true"/>

<game-config game-id="WOW" scannable="false"/>

</game-configs>

Now Minion will always show its reading the WoW Config at startup but that should only take less than a second as its still needed by Minion to know how to ignore the game.

We are working on a global options panel that will have a place to enable disable game detection for specific games too. Right now it only pops up at startup for new games.