Command Line

[Afterthought]

I think that we should be able to have a way to add command line parameters to the game we are trying to load.

I play halo, but when i connect to a game via xfire, i can no longer have rcon (the serrver administrator command prompt) initialize for me. This is annoying because i enjoy connecting via xfire because of its ease of use.

Also, for some reason, i can not set my 5th mouse button as the push to talk (microsoft intellimouse explorer). Don't konw why this is but i would rather have it there than anywhere else.

[RavenDT]

Sounds like a good idea.

I noticed way back when I used to play Half-Life 1 on a regular basis that Teamspeak couldn't use mouse4 or mouse5 to bind for push to talk, and since I need all my other keys, I ended up disabling my windows key in the registry, but then TS still recognizes it as a bindable key, so I use that to talk. LOL

But it would be nice to use our additional mouse buttons for that.

[=PAT=Nick]

I think that we should be able to have a way to add command line parameters to the game we are trying to load.

I play halo, but when i connect to a game via xfire, i can no longer have rcon (the serrver administrator command prompt) initialize for me. This is annoying because i enjoy connecting via xfire because of its ease of use.

Also, for some reason, i can not set my 5th mouse button as the push to talk (microsoft intellimouse explorer). Don't konw why this is but i would rather have it there than anywhere else.

there is a way to get command line parameter features to be used with xfire. If you go to your xfire root folder (C:\Program Files\Xfire), there is a configuration file called "xfire_games". Open it, and look for the following "paragraph":

[4107]
LongName=Halo
ShortName=halo
Icon=halo.ico
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microso ft\Microsoft Games\Halo\EXE Path
LauncherExe=halo.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=-password "%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%"
LauncherNetworkArgs=-connect %UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=GS
CanBeUpForGame=TRUE
InGameRenderer=D3D9
you put your command line parameters where i have bolded the text. I have put in the -console and -screenshot parameters for an example:

[4107]
LongName=Halo
ShortName=halo
Icon=halo.ico
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microso ft\Microsoft Games\Halo\EXE Path
LauncherExe=halo.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=-password "%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%"
LauncherNetworkArgs=-connect %UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS% -console -screenshot
ServerStatusType=GS
CanBeUpForGame=TRUE
InGameRenderer=D3D9
after putting in the parameters, save the changes. Exit x-fire and open xfire again, log in, and you should see the console and such for halo.