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Re: Independence War - I-War

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From: Angus
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 22:56
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In article <g2tlt5h8bqgccnoi9tgcin5c4ic2m4i24s@4ax.com>, 
joe.granto@NoSpam.com says...
> 
> >From what I've seen there are a few issues getting the game to run, can 
> >anybody advise, and is it worth the trouble?
> 
> Definitely worth the trouble. You may want to use Compatibility Mode
> to run it. You can download a comprehensive compatibility mode util
> from Microsoft that allows you to control things very granularly. That
> may be your best bet.

I've re-installed and got it working - I think I basically got things 
mixed up before.

A small problem. Yhere are some useful arguments you can use wth the exe 
file like -nologos (skips adverts) -lagrange (puts the freedom to jump 
around the galazy back into the game) and -disk means you can put all 
the files from the cd on to the hard disk, but the thing is this....

the thing is the patch file changes things so that the exe file 
(iwar.exe) now brings up a requester to choose what graphic options you 
want, then when you click okay, this fires up a new file called game.exe 
which starts the game.

I don't know how to attach the arguments to game.exe, I can make a 
shortcut and add them in properties but, it won't start from the 
requester it needs to start from the iwar.exe file and when that fires 
up game.exe iy dpesn't look at a shortcut.

Is there a way to tack on the arguments tp the game.exe file so that 
however it is executed it takes notice of them?

Thanks. 
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