What it does

Download: ForeverLineage.exe (mirror: l2forever.eu/files).

First run

1. 1Download ForeverLineage.exe and run it.
2. 2If Windows shows Windows protected your PC: click More info, then Run anyway. See below.
3. 3Pick an install folder. The default is C:\Games\Forever Lineage. The launcher copies itself there and makes a desktop and Start menu shortcut.
4. 4Wait for the download, about 3 GB over the wire.
5. 5Press START. From now on start the game from the shortcut.

Already have an Interlude client?

• Pick the folder of your client. In step 3 choose the folder that holds system\l2.exe. The launcher installs into it instead of making a new one.
• Only the differences download. Files identical to ours are kept, the rest is replaced. Our system folder (about 200 MB) is always downloaded.
• LineageII.exe is removed. The old NCsoft updater is deleted. Files the launcher does not know are left alone.
• Keep a copy if you play elsewhere. The folder becomes a Forever Lineage client. Other servers need their own copy.

Every start

• START means nothing changed: you go straight in.
• UPDATE means a patch is out. Press it, the changed files download, then START.
• CHECK FILES re-hashes the whole install. Use it after a crash on the loading screen.
• Custom interface check box switches between our custom UI and the stock one. Tick or untick, press START. No separate interface download.
• Modern graphics (Vulkan) check box renders the game through Vulkan instead of DirectX 9: fullscreen becomes a borderless window, so Alt+Tab keeps the frame rate and the black screen or washed-out colours of newer cards on Windows 11 do not happen. The launcher ticks it on its own when your PC can use it (Windows 10 or 11 with a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card). If the game closes right after the first start with it, the launcher unticks it and you are back on DirectX 9; tick it again any time.

Settings files

Written once on the first install and never overwritten by an update or by CHECK FILES. Your resolution, keys and window layout stay.

Windows warning

• Windows: "Windows protected your PC" on the first run. Click More info, then Run anyway.
• Chrome: may call the file an uncommon download. Keep it.
• Why: the launcher is not code-signed yet. A signed build is coming, until then Windows treats any new unsigned program this way. Download only from this site.

What it sends

• Your game folder. The client ships a small check file, system\d3d9.dll. At login it reports the checksums of the game files, the names of the programs loaded into the game and a hashed hardware id to our server.
• Nothing is blocked today. The report is recorded only. Nothing outside the game is read.
• Details: see the Privacy page, "Anti-cheat data".

Problems

• Crash on loading: press CHECK FILES.
• Moving the install: copy the whole folder, run ForeverLineage.exe from the new place, delete the old one.
• Starting over: delete the folder and run the downloaded ForeverLineage.exe again.
• Frame rate drops after Alt+Tab, black screen or washed-out colours in fullscreen: a Windows 11 issue with the DirectX 9 client, not the server. Tick Modern graphics (Vulkan) in the launcher. Without it, Alt+Enter switches to windowed mode, which also avoids it.
• The launcher will not start at all: install by hand, see "Without the launcher" below, and send us the ticket so we can fix it.
• Something else: open a ticket on the feedback page and attach ForeverLineage.log from the install folder.

Without the launcher

Only for when the launcher does not work on your PC. The launcher is the supported way to install and it keeps the game updated on its own.

1. 1Download Lineage II.zip (3.2 GB, mirror) and unpack it. You get a Lineage II folder.
2. 2Download system.zip (38 MB, mirror) and unpack it into that folder. Replace every file it asks about.
3. 3Start system\l2.exe.
4. 4Optional, for the custom interface: unpack interface.zip (36 MB, mirror) into the same folder, after system.zip.