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Running GameSpy games in high priority

Negative_Pulse
10-14-2003, 12:36 PM
Thanks to some of the posters here i now know how to make shortcuts for my games that will launch them with high priority.

Thing is, GameSpy launches the original exe file and not the new shortcut i created. Im going to see if i can find where gamespy stores the file path info and change its target to the new shortcut.

Has anyone done this? With any success or problems?

Nodsu
10-14-2003, 01:30 PM
Another alternative would be to rename the game executable and name the shortcut as the game exe calling the real exe with new name (if I made any sense here).

It may be that some games expect their executable to have a certain name but I think most of them should run OK.

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Negative_Pulse
10-14-2003, 02:14 PM
I was kinda wondering about doing that. I'll give it a try as nothing i have done so far has worked.

Negative_Pulse
10-14-2003, 03:37 PM
Naming the shortcut the main exe file and pointing it at the original exe file that was now renamed didnt work.

However, i did the same thing except i made it a bat file, and it worked!

Now when i click on a server in gamespy it launches medal of honor in high priority.

Only odd thing is, when it launchs it doesnt join the server i clicked on, rather it just launches a normal single player game. All i do is use mohaa's in-game server list to join a game. But its strange none the less.

Nodsu
10-15-2003, 02:21 PM
maybe gamespy passes some parameters to the game exe to make it connect to somewhere?

In the bat file append "%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9" to the game executable command so that any parameters given to the batch file get forwarded to the exe.

Negative_Pulse
10-19-2003, 01:24 AM
Adding that to the bat file made it work great. :grinthumb

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