Option to disable game scanning.

[art0007i]

The installer takes quite a bit of time to load all the games I have installed on my pc. I would rather just add the games I want manually instead of it grabbing a list on it's own. Ideally on first launch it would ask like "Would you like to scan your pc for currently installed games (yes/no)"

[slxdy]

I'm pretty sure the game scanner is very fast. It is most likely the task responsible for getting all the MelonLoader releases and CI builds. We're currently looking into optimizing this.

[slxdy]

I managed to optimize it by A LOT. Give it a shot and let me know if it's better for you.
https://github.com/LavaGang/MelonLoader.Installer/actions/runs/11922337444?pr=25

[slxdy]

If it's still slow for you, do you have many non-Steam games by any chance? Those use a built-in icon extractor, which tends to be slow. Maybe worth looking into

[art0007i]

oh yeah It's a bit faster, still I think it would be nice to have an option to show only manually added games, because I don't intend to add mods to most of the unity games I have on steam anyway

[slxdy]

An option for game filtering is on my to-do list. Should help most people finding their games with bigger lists. The reason why I don't want to exclude games is because the entire point of it is to make locating games easier

[beanscat1]

it would be cool to see a checklist
like you can include steam and exclude epic

[slxdy]

Can be done probably

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 4 months with no activity. If this is still an issue then please leave a comment, or else this will close in 2 weeks.

[art0007i]

yes this is still an issue