Arctium Game Launcher (Public version)

A game launcher for World of Warcraft that allows you to connect to custom servers with a valid tls certificate attached.

NOTE: This is a publicly available, stripped down version of the launcher. The full-featured launcher is distributed under different terms and is available at https://arctium.io

License, Copyright & Contributions

Please see our Open Source project Documentation Repo

Special Request <3

Please do NOT remove the name arctium from the final binary. Blizzard filters their crash logs based on localhost and the string arctium in the binary name.

Supported Clients

• 1.14.4 or later
• 3.4.2 or later
• 10.1.5 or later

Later = all future version in that branch.

NOTE FOR SERVER CONNECTIONS

• A valid certificate matching your authentication/bnet server host name. That certificate needs to be loaded by the authentication/bnet server too

Binary Releases

There are no binary releases of this version. Our full-featured launcher has binary releases at https://arctium.io

Building

Build Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK 10.0.0 or later
• Optional for native builds: C++ workload through Visual Studio 2026 or latest C++ build tools

Build Instructions Windows (native)

• Execute dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Configuration -p:platform="x64" -p:PublishAot=true
• Native output is placed in the build folder.

Usage

Windows Usage

1. Copy Actium Game Launcher.exe to your World of Warcraft folder.
2. Edit the WTF/Config.wtf to set your portal or use a different config file with the -config Config2.wtf launch arg.
3. Run the Actium Game Launcher.exe

Launch Parameters

Use --help