Installing the Lyonspyre Client

Lyonspyre runs on its own client, with in-game panels for talents, the leaderboard, your profile and more. The launcher bundles everything. There's no separate game install to hunt down first.

Download

Download Lyonspyre.exe

That one executable is a self-updating launcher. Drop it anywhere, double-click, and the rest happens on its own.

What gets installed

Files land under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lyonspyre\ (typically C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Lyonspyre\):

Path	What's there
client/	The Lyonspyre Client executable + DLLs
uo-data/	Game art and map data
client/Data/Plugins/Lyonspyre/	Per-player settings (cooldown rules, bandage bar position, journal tabs)

Any other game install you already have is left untouched.

First launch

1. The launcher checks your install against the latest release and downloads whatever changed. The update screen shows the phase, the file being handled and what it is for, your download speed and the time remaining.
2. When you see "Ready to play", click Play.
3. The game window opens at the login screen.
4. Enter any username and password - accounts auto-create on first connect.

There's no sign-up form and no email to confirm. Type the username and password you want, connect, and the account is yours from that moment. Pick something you'll remember: there's no self-service password reset, so a forgotten password means asking in Discord #help.

How many accounts you can make

During the playtest there is no practical cap on how many accounts one internet connection can make. A household, a shared house or a group of friends on the same connection can all make their own, and you can make spares for testing.

A cap will return at launch. When it does, every account ever made from your connection will count toward it, including ones you've abandoned, and the login screen will tell you when you hit it.

Any future cap is a limit on making accounts. It's nothing to do with how many game windows you can run at once, which is covered below.

Multi-clienting

Two clients per IP/computer. The launcher will happily spawn a second instance; both run with isolated caches and won't step on each other.

Launcher settings

Click Settings in the launcher to manage updates, crash reporting, your install location, desktop shortcut and local logs.

• Faster checks are on by default. Previously verified art and maps use a quick size and timestamp check for up to seven days. Changed files, new releases of those files and program files still receive full checks. Turn this off to check every file on each Play.
• Verify and Repair checks every game file and replaces missing or damaged files without deleting your profiles, macros, hotbars or window layouts. Close your Lyonspyre game windows first. Repair does not start the game. If interrupted, the next check retries files already found to be damaged.
• Crash reporting can be switched off here, including queued launcher reports. Reports can contain account name, computer details and game logs; local logs remain on your PC.
• Optional crash diagnostics enables local native crash dumps after a Windows permission prompt. It is not needed to play. Large dump files stay on your PC; reporting only sends a notice that one exists.

The launcher only asks to install the required game runtime if it is missing. Your other game installations are left alone. The playtest launcher is not digitally signed yet, so Windows may show an unfamiliar-app warning. Use the official download link above and never disable your security software to install the game.

Fresh installs receive the standard controls and layout defaults. Existing saved defaults are kept during updates and repairs.

Troubleshooting

The targeting cursor isn't showing tile distance in a dungeon or arena

Enable Show target range indicator in client Options, update through the launcher and fully restart the client. With a target cursor active, the number works over mesh scenery as well as ordinary map tiles. Hovering over a creature or item keeps its normal distance. This is a distance display, not confirmation that a spell has range or line of sight.

Lamp posts lose their light with Gradient Circle of Transparency

Update through the launcher. Gradient transparency should not switch off map lamp lighting, even outside the circle. The brightness of the surrounding scene still affects how clearly you can see a lamp's pool of light.

I typed a new username and password and it wouldn't let me in

New accounts are made the moment you connect, so a username nobody has taken should just work. When it doesn't, it's one of these:

• Someone already has that username. You'll be told the name and password don't match. Pick a different one.
• The username has a character we can't store. These are out: < > : " / \ | ? *. A username also can't start or end with a space, or end with a full stop.
• The password was left blank. It has to be something.

The login screen names which one it is. If none of them fit, ask in Discord #help.

The launcher says Windows is blocking updates

Your copy of Lyonspyre sits in a folder Windows protects, usually C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86), so the launcher cannot save an update there. The launcher now spots this before you click Play and shows a banner with a RESTART AS ADMINISTRATOR button. Click it, accept the Windows prompt, and the update goes through.

You will need that button on every update while the game lives in a protected folder. To be rid of it for good, reinstall and accept the default location under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lyonspyre\, which never needs administrator rights.

The launcher says 'update failed' or 'sha256 mismatch'

Close your game windows and choose Settings > Verify and Repair. Downloads resume where possible, and damaged files are replaced without deleting your saved controls or layouts. Do not delete your client folder.

If the message mentions access being denied to a path, that is the protected-folder case above, not a bad download.

The game crashes on launch

Crash reports reach us automatically. If you can, tell us what you were doing in Discord #bugs so we can match it to the report.

I see the wrong splash, not the Lyonspyre login art

You're on an old launcher build. Click Update in the launcher, or close and re-launch it.