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In your second sentence, I think it would be most accurate to say that the argument is launcher-specific. It's not something that the game executable or game engine is handling, the argument gets passed to the launcher itself.

murgatroid99
– murgatroid99

2026-01-30 19:37:50 +00:00
Commented yesterday
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@murgatroid99 Excellent point, fixed!

Joachim
– Joachim

2026-01-31 11:30:23 +00:00
Commented 20 hours ago
Adding to this: some games on Steam will ask, via a Steam pop-up, what you want to open when you run the game, and have a "Selected Launch Option" drop-down in Properties to choose your default. Which seems to be the equivalent of bypassing the Launcher entirely, and just running the main game executable directly.

Chronocidal
– Chronocidal

2026-01-31 19:14:31 +00:00
Commented 12 hours ago

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