Jagexcache

[austin-millan]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Error: Failed to locate an existing game cache for [RuneScape]/[RuneScape 3]

The RuneMate client seems to search the user's home directory for .../oldschool/jagexcache directory, but if OSRS is installed somewhere else, RuneMate cannot resolve the right path and subsequently run a bot.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to see the RuneMate client either

• Allow the directory path to be passed in as a command line arg, (e.g. -jagexcache=/path/to/cache)
• Allow the directory path to be specified within the settings of RuneMate client,
• Have RuneMate client use environment variables to resolve the path (e.g. $ export jagexcache="path/to/cache").

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've gotten symlinks to work (e.g. ln -s {ORIGIANL_JAGEX_PATH} {DESTINATION}).

Additional context

There are numerous end-users who have faced this issue on various platforms (see below). Having the option to set an environment variable would help users at least get it up and running when faced with this common issue of resolving the directory path.

• RuneMate Error "Failed to locate an existing game cache for RuneScape 3"
• Unable to find jagexcache
• Failed to locate an existing game cache for OSRS
• Getting "Failed to locate existing game cache for OldSchool Runescape. Error
• Windows 10 'Failed to Locate an existing game cache for oldschool runescape.'
• Failed to locate an existing game cache for Oldschool Runescape
• Failed to locate an existing game cache for OSRS
• Failed to locate an existing game cache Windows 7
• Failed to find a new game client

[ccarpenter04]

The issue has been resolved in most cases by having improved the detection of where the cache is located, so while I'm not against seeing an option added, what did you do to cause the cache to be in a different location?

[austin-millan]

what did you do to cause the cache to be in a different location?

I used the guide here to install OSRS, which downloads the files in a different directory. And when launching OSRS, the jagexcache gets saved in the directory I invoked it from (~/home/runescape/oldschool/) with the command:

java -Duser.home='.' -Djava.class.path='jagexappletviewer.jar' -Dcom.jagex.config='http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws' 'jagexappletviewer'

Edit: most end users on Linux probably use the RSU client, which sets up both OSRS and RS3. But others may want a more lean setup without multiple JRE versions installed to run multiple clients.