Searching the 7 seas

[treelubber]

I have been looking all over the o-potco forums for information on where to get a download for the game so i can use a launcher and not a browser.

I see alot of outdated posts about it's use but cannot seem to find a download anywhere.

Is it possible to use a launcher and not the browser to play?
If so would it change the performance?

The main reason i ask is that it takes me several attempts to start up the game. As little as 3 attempts most of the time. I get an Explorer8 error and i am forced to shut all iexplorer pages down and try again. more than once i did this over a dozen times.

Things i have done to remedy this with no clear numerical difference was; Clear my browser cache, run a cleaner for temp files any internet cache pages and a hard disk cleaner. I do not use Nortons, so it isn't interferring and i have updated permissions on my firewall and router. Both our machines and our cable package are beasts and we couldn't seem to get a smooth run. Open water battle is still pretty clean but swordplay is really choppy and boarding and fighting on a ship is not even a wise option. We even turned down ingame video options which we found somewhat odd since she is running a single 1g and im on a sli2x1g gpus.
Non specifically both our pcs are quadcore-8g+-ddr3-1800.

My main reason for asking is i was planning on upgrade mine and my wifes accounts. We are 12/12 HM in wow and are taking a break until 4.2 and this is a really fun game. We capped our free basic fairly quickly. So its really a concern to whether we want to spend the money for the same performance or is there something we are missing...or gaining with a premium account.

Sorry for the block of text.
Thank you in advance,

[Mr. Skiperdoo]

I don't really think there's any clear difference between being basic and unlimited, in terms of making the game run faster.

Do you have DirectX 9? If you want to run it in OpenGL I can give you a link.

Here's the download link, you may need to sign in to get to the page. http://piratesonline.go.com/#/installer/install_ie.html

[treelubber]

Yea i have Direct X 11a

I went to log in an hour ago and there was apparently a new patch, unfortunately this i think is what has made up my descision not to upgrade.

I thought at first it was thier way of rendering everything to look like winter. However this is a bug as others i spoke to in game didn't see all the "white snow"

[treelubber]

The link above only goes to the main log in page where one would log in to play the game.

[ex8404]

It is my understanding that the launcher has been phased out entirely by the good folks at POTCO. It is no longer supported and, therefore, unavailable for download.

[Crestshot]

What Ex said. To your problems with the browser, have you tried it with programs that are not Internet Explorer, such as Firefox or Chrome? Also, there's a setting you can choose in game to change the directx or whatever it's called so you don't have the white, I believe. Not completely certain, though. Not completely tech savvy.