✨ What's new in v3.0

v3.0 is a major overhaul: the launcher now handles two game editions in a single application, with verified downloads, addon management and automatic configuration.

• 🎭 Two editions, one launcherSwitch between WoW 3.3.5a (WotLK) and Legion 7.3.5: each edition keeps its own configuration, theme and addons.
• 📥 Segmented, verified downloadClient downloaded in segments (HTTP Range) with resume after a disconnection and SHA-256 verification before extraction.
• 🎮 Automatic game launchThe client starts through the bundled Wine, with the realmlist (WotLK) or portal (Legion) already set.
• 💎 Sylvania HD patch (WotLK)Automatic HD patch installation, with modular patch management.
• 🧬 ARAC (All Races All Classes)Enable or disable ARAC in one click from the launcher.
• 🧱 AddOns managerAddon catalogue driven by a remote JSON manifest, with one-click install and update.
• ⚙️ Auto-configurationGenerates an optimal Config.wtf for your machine, no manual file editing.
• 🔄 Server managementAdd and pick servers, with automatic migration of your previous configuration.
• 📊 Per-edition statisticsPlaytime and launch counts tracked separately for WotLK and Legion.
• 📝 Personal notesSticky-note style notes with colors and reminders, right inside the launcher.
• 🖼️ Random wallpaperA different mood every time you open it, specific to each edition.
• 🌐 French and EnglishFully translated interface, switch language on the fly.

🐧 Linux edition specifics

• 📦 AppImage formatOne single file, no system installation required and nothing to add to your repositories.
• 🍷 Bundled WineWine (Kron4ek 10.8 staging wow64) is frozen inside the AppImage and SHA-256 verified: nothing to install or update on your side.
• 🎮 Automatic DXVKDXVK enables itself when the HD patch provides the Direct3D libraries.
• 🗂️ Isolated Wine prefixThe prefix lives in your user folder (~/.local/share/Sylvania/) and never touches system directories. Path handling is case-insensitive.
• 📚 Native extractionExtraction through libzip, with protection against zip-slip archives.
• 🔊 Native soundLauncher sound effects handled by Qt Multimedia (QSoundEffect).

📥 Installation and Launch

The launcher is provided as an AppImage, which means there is nothing to install on your system!

1. Download the SylvaniaLauncher-v3.0-x86_64.AppImage file above.
2. Make the file executable:
   • In GUI: Right click on the file -> Properties -> Permissions -> Check "Allow executing file as program".
   • In terminal:

     chmod +x SylvaniaLauncher-v3.0-x86_64.AppImage

3. Run it, by double-click or from the terminal:

   ./SylvaniaLauncher-v3.0-x86_64.AppImage

4. Pick your edition (WotLK 3.3.5a or Legion 7.3.5), then let the launcher download and install the client.

📦 Arch Linux: the native package (pacman)

Besides the AppImage, the launcher also builds as a native Arch package: compiled against the system Qt, installed and updated by pacman. This is the recommended version on Arch and its derivatives (CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro).

• 📦 30 MB instead of 230The package is around 30 MB and takes 33 MB once installed: nothing is duplicated, the libraries come from your own repositories.
• 🍷 System WineUnlike the AppImage, Wine is not bundled: the launcher uses your distribution's copy, so you have to install it yourself.
• 🔄 Managed by pacmanUpdates, the list of installed files and a clean removal all go through pacman, like any other system package.

First install Wine, which is required to run the game (wine-staging works too):

sudo pacman -S --needed wine

DXVK is strongly recommended: it translates the game's Direct3D 9 calls to Vulkan, for a large frame-rate gain. It comes from the AUR — on CachyOS, use dxvk-mingw-git instead. Without it the game falls back to WineD3D: playable, but noticeably slower.

paru -S dxvk-bin

Then build and install the package; the PKGBUILD fetches the sources on its own:

git clone -b linux https://github.com/BlaMacfly/SylvaniaLauncher.git
cd SylvaniaLauncher/linux/archlinux
makepkg -si

The launcher then shows up in your application menu, or starts from a terminal with the SylvaniaLauncher command.

🗑️ Uninstallation

Since it's an AppImage, to uninstall the launcher, just delete the .AppImage file.

If you installed the Arch package, uninstall it through pacman:

sudo pacman -Rns sylvania-launcher

To remove all of the launcher's data, delete the following folder (visible by showing hidden folders with Ctrl+H):

• ~/.local/share/Sylvania/Sylvania Launcher/ (it contains the preferences, the data, the Wine engine and the Wine prefix)

To remove it from the command line:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Sylvania/Sylvania\ Launcher/

./SylvaniaLauncher-v3.0-x86_64.AppImage --debug