I dl'd it and it does help because theres no way you can press the back button on accident or like go to a new webpage. I didn't notice it running any faster though.

I like the new download i have had zero lags and i have a p.o.s computer that always lagged before

You know everyone, I noticed a difference. I believe they developed this update for me.

 

When I run firefox, I've got the stumble toolbar, the ChaCha guide toolbar, and I always show tabs even if there's only one.

 

 

 

This takes up a large bar in my screen, and it allows me to play the game without viewing the advertisement. That's right - I can't see the advertisement when I play on firefox. Firefox is notorious for having memory leaks, when my computer bogs down its either 1 of 2 reasons. The first is McAfee decided to start running. The second is Firefox decided to leave its memory cage and is now taking up 200-300 MB of ram (my computer's old... it only has half a gig total).

 

 

 

With this update, hopefully it'll do three things for me:

 

1. Never take up more than 100 MB of ram while running.

 

2. Never change keyboard focus when the adverts switch.

 

3. Let me play RS on HD even though my computer probably wouldn't handle it anyway.

 

 

 

But, I'll test all that out later this week. Time for class :P

 

 

 

 

 

This isn't a huge update at all, it's exactly the same as the old DOWNLOADABLE rs client. Jagex changed one little thing (still have to find out what) and announced it as a new update. Whatever.

Why Jagex uses misleadingly the words "downloadable" and "RuneScape client"?

 

 

 

That program is not a download of RS, it is just an IE based browser with runescape.com as homepage. You can use it to load any website by dragging a desktop icon onto the window.

 

 

 

If you use the signed applet, RS will be permanently downloaded and installed to your computer's hard drive regardless of what browser you use. (%WINDIR%\.file_store_32 and %WINDIR%\.jagex_cache_32)

 

 

 

Jagex should add an option to launch the RuneScape CLIENT from command line with java[Caution: Executable File], without any browsers.

Got my first RS freezeup with it in months. I wish I could get a roll-back...

 

 

 

I don't get whats up with the screen being off-center and having the black part to the right... poor qc

The new client uses less RAM I think. It's also smaller in file-size.

 

But it's not compulsory, so I don't get why everyone is ranting at how much of a disappointment it is.