[INFO] How To Open Replay Links

Thanks. I did that and I got the program request box from Firefox the first time (without going further), and now it just goes to the replay info page without opening PA. (after making the edit offered by @zgrssd) Any thoughts?

Hmm, I don't have Windows myself, so I can't test anything, but if you go to a page such as http://pastats.com/replay/13832514543727382754 you just get some info about the replay and PA won't start automatically? Does anything happen if you click on the startpa:// link on that page?

The startpa:// link redirects me to the page in your post.

That is, when I start at the game data/chart page http://pastats.com/chart?gameId=341969 , the Launch Replay in PA link is http://pastats.com/replay/13832514543727382754 . Clicking that link sends me to the page you linked to - http://pastats.com/replay/13832514543727382754
And that's where it ends.

I also tried doing this through Internet Explorer and after being redirected I received an error message ~unable to open helper application/Protocol specified in address is not valid.

I verified that the script written by @cptconundrum in this thread did write to the registry.

Are you sure you typed the path correctly in the .reg file? Also taking care to use double \\ as path separators? Could you post the content of the .reg file you made?

This is what I have in my .reg file

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\startpa]
@="URL:startpa protocoll"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\startpa\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Games\\Planetary Annihilation\\PA.exe --uioptions \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa]
@=""
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Games\\Planetary Annihilation\\PA.exe --uioptions \"%1\""

What I did not see is any reference to "
@="URL:startpa protocoll"" in the registry

Hmm, yeah. That looks ok as far as I can tell. I hope somebody that does run Windows comes along and can help you.
In the mean time, you can copy the number part from links such as http://pastats.com/replay/13832514543727382754 in PA itself under Replays.

Kind of odd though. I would have expected "C:\\Games\\Planetary\ Annihilation\\PA.exe" instead of "C:\\Games\\Planetary Annihilation\\PA.exe". That is, a '\' before the space between Planetary and Annihilation. But it's like that in all of the posts, so I suppose it's correct.

The path is in quotes.
Not sure what the problem is though. Either the registry entry has some annoying syntax error or the browser in question decided to do its own thing.

Great! I can easily work with that. Thanks for your time

Yeah, but --uioptions is included in the quotes if you look at the .reg file itself. What I meant to say was I would have expected

Code:

@="C:\\Games\\Planetary\ Annihilation\\PA.exe --uioptions \"%1\""

Neither Firefox nor IE will work for me. Below are the entries in my registry.


ROOT


LOCAL MACHINE

is that path to PA.exe correct? Normal PA installations have a \stable\ or \pte\ inside of it:

Ding-ding-ding-ding. We have a winner!

I was using the path to PALauncher (oops)

Now a question of curiosity.... This PA.exe is only 325 KB

But there are 2 other PA.exe in

C:\Games\Planetary Annihilation\Planetary Annihilation\stable\bin_x86 at 5,743 KB
and
C:\Games\Planetary Annihilation\Planetary Annihilation\stable\bin_x64 at 7,333 KB

I take it that the PA file in the STABLE folder will start of of the ones above depending on your OS?

Thanks for your help.

yep

I'm on Ubuntu and I've been getting this bug. Even if I type in a replay ID it doesn't work. Others are reporting it too:

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-pa-stats-86422.50690/page-43#post-1109128

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "When I try and open replay links it still only gives me options to open PA as if it were still being run through the Uber launcher". I suspect you mean it's not running from inside of Steam? That is, no auto-login or Steam Overlay and such. If that's the case, then try it like this:

Code:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\startpa\shell\open\command]
@="C:\Path\To\Steam.exe -applaunch 386070 --uioptions \"%1\""

I can't test if that works due to lack of access to Windows, but supposedly it does. And I think 386070 is the app ID for PA: Titans, but you may have to double check that. You may still run into the trouble that @tracert mentioned though, which is that PA tries to load the replay but then fails.

Ah, I see what you mean now. Well, that's odd. Can you use the registry editor to check if the registry actually has the correct values? (<WinKey> + R and then type "regedit")

If they are correct, you can also use the registry editor to search for the string "Planetary Annihilation Launcher" to see where else if occurs. It has to pull that value from somewhere...

I dunno owhat marshalls problem is, but I now modified the PA Stats UI mod to load titan replays, before they kept failing. The downside is that this means non titan replays will fail to load. But who would want to watch those anyway.
And if you do, use the replayid I guess.