Starcraft 2 command line parameters

TheResidentEvil

United States991 Posts

April 06 2011 17:25 GMT

I know in other games like hl you can add a parameter to the shortcut of the exe and it will launch the exe with that command enabled. For example, +map. I want to be able to do something like this when launching replays. I want to watch replays in sc2 by having it launch in a window and at a certain res.

I dont want to change all my settings in SC2 so i want it to be a launch option. Anyone know how to set up something like this? Or where i can find the sc2 launch parameters? thanks

TheResidentEvil

United States991 Posts

April 06 2011 17:34 GMT

Just an update on this running with -height and -width seemed to work. I guess i need to know how to set it in a window now.

TheResidentEvil

United States991 Posts

April 06 2011 17:41 GMT

Ok got this figured out. i guess close it

Aim Here

Scotland672 Posts

April 06 2011 17:42 GMT

I just ran a combination of "strings" and "grep" on the Starcraft executable, and these are the likeliest-looking lines it came up with:


--patch=none
--alreadyrunning
--test
-component-dl
--patch=failed
--patch=succeeded
-test
--launchedfromlauncher
--driverwarning=

--toolsPatching
--patchlist
--logFolder
--saveas
--hiddenPort
--nop2p
--locale
--hiddenProcessing
--responsefile
--nopatchnotes

I don't know if these do anything if you use them (they might not be parameters for the Starcraft command line, but something else entirely, such as parameters to send to OTHER programs that the Starcraft exe runs), and I don't know what they do (so if you try one and it breaks your computer, it's your own fault), but here they are.

Notable by it's omission is the well-loved '-opengl' flag from Blizzard games of yore.

TheResidentEvil

United States991 Posts

April 06 2011 17:46 GMT

i will check this but what i also figured out is anything in your variables.txt is a command you can run with -command. example.

-displayMode 0

is windowed mode. You can set this as a shortcut and launch the game in a window to watch replays. Then you can have your regular SC2 shortcut to launch the game normal and it wont overwrite settings. Im going to mess with the variables to see if I can get it to be more efficient too.

Colboltz

1 Post

November 10 2015 06:26 GMT

@TheResidentEvil..................

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I was having a problem with opening up SC2 for the first time, and I couldn't do anything about it. Hours upon HOURS of trying to fix it... nothing worked.. and then I saw this argument to open it up in window mode AND IT WORKED!!!

YOU ARE AMAZING, AND I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW!

Thanks a ton.

ps. Sorry that this is an old post.

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