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Posted June 21, 2019
Long story short, I hate overlays and game launchers in general (there are many things about them I strongly dislike: telemetry, achievements, de facto DRM, "social" features, plain unnecessary bloat, etc), and I'd like to run the game without Galaxy.

Usually, when I want to play a GOG game, I install it (this is the only thing I use Galaxy for), then I look in the \GalaxyClient\Games\<Game> folder for the executable and create a shortcut elsewhere, which I use to run the game without the launcher. However, I haven't been able to do this with Tron 2.0: on one hand, the tron.exe file doesn't seem to do anything; on the other hand, if I try to download the game outside Galaxy, I get an installer bundled with Galaxy, and I get the same results: the game is installed in the same folder inside GalaxyClient; the files are the same and the problem persists; and there doesn't seem to be any option to install the game without Galaxy.

Is there a way to run this game without having to run Galaxy? Usually, I always find a working executable file inside the installed folder, but this time I haven't found anything.

Thank you very much.

EDIT: It seems that the bundling with Galaxy is not the problem. I've tried running the game with Galaxy and it won't run either. It looks like tron.exe WOULD run the game, but there is some unknown issue than prevents the game from actually launching.

I'm running Windows 7 x64. Running the game (either from Galaxy or manually running Tron.exe) makes a process called TRON.exe appear in the Task Manager, but it just stays idle, doing anything and consuming about 2Mb of memory, no matter how much time I wait. Rebooting didn't solve the issue either.
Post edited June 21, 2019 by Nbrevu
This question / problem has been solved by redrain85image
Posted June 21, 2019
You're likely experiencing the same problem mentioned in this thread (starting with this post):
https://www.gog.com/forum/tron_20/recommended_killer_app_mod/post27

If so, the problem is with Windows 7 itself. When you run TRON.exe, the Games Explorer feature built into Windows 7 (and Vista) tries to connect to a Microsoft server to see if there are any updates for TRON 2.0 in Microsoft's database. If there were, it would update the Games Explorer. (Of course, there will never be an update: since the Games Explorer feature was abandoned by Microsoft, starting with Windows 8.)

So every time TRON.exe is run, Windows 7 tries to connect to the internet. If it can't get a connection (because you've got the run32dll process Games Explorer uses blocked via a firewall, or you're simply not connected), the game launcher hangs while Windows keeps trying to connect.

The thread I linked to discusses how to get around this problem. Unfortunately, the solution that was found – without allowing the run32dll process connection to the internet – ended up being kind of extreme, and should only be used as a last resort.
Post edited June 21, 2019 by redrain85
Posted June 24, 2019
I tried some of the solutions from the thread you linked (unregistering the dlls, fiddling with the registry...) and it didn't work. However, from the information given there, I started looking and found a forum about other game, where people had the same problem. It seems that just renaming the executable file is enough for Windows Games to stop recognizing it, and finally it launches. The link in question is here.

So, thank you very much.
Posted June 25, 2019
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Nbrevu: I tried some of the solutions from the thread you linked (unregistering the dlls, fiddling with the registry...) and it didn't work. However, from the information given there, I started looking and found a forum about other game, where people had the same problem. It seems that just renaming the executable file is enough for Windows Games to stop recognizing it, and finally it launches. The link in question is here.

So, thank you very much.
Interesting! I suggested renaming the executable in the thread I linked to, but the person with the issue claimed it didn't work.

Glad to hear the problem has been resolved. If renaming the executable does work, then that is indeed a very simple solution. (I couldn't test myself, because I don't have access to a system with Windows 7 installed, at the moment.)
Post edited June 25, 2019 by redrain85
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