How to Add Command Line Arguments to Steam, GoG and Epic Games Store
A command line argument is a special string of text that you can add to a game’s startup sequence for various effects. These commands can be incredibly useful, but every digital game store has a different way to access them.
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Back in the days of MS-DOS and other text-based operating systems, you’d launch a game or application by typing its “executable” name. You could add special “arguments” after the executable’s name if you wanted to. For example, if you launched ID Software’s classic shooter DOOM with “doom -cdrom” it would allow you to run the game directly from the CD-ROM disc. Quite useful when you don’t have enough space for DOOM!
Today we don’t launch games from a command line; we use graphical interfaces to click on icons and buttons. Yet command line arguments (also known as parameters) are still a common feature of modern games.
They let you gain access to features or fixes that simply aren’t available through the game’s main interface, or they can get a game that won’t start at all on your computer to launch since the command is there right from the start and doesn’t depend on the game already running.
You can find out what startup parameters are available for your games by web searching to see what the developer has published or what other players have discovered. Once you have the parameters you want to use, follow these steps to implement them in the most popular game storefronts on PC.
Go to your Steam library, and right-click on the game you want to modify, then select “Properties.”
Under “Launch options” you can add any command line
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