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I'm reviving it because this is still an issue. It worked perfectly fine with Origin but now that we have EA app it does not.
I can't say much about Steam - I've heard it also doesn't work - but I made some tests with EA app.
If you set the command line args in EA app and run the game from EA app - it works. The game gets the command line args.
If you set the command line args in EA app and run the game from a shortcut or by opening the game exe - it doesn't work, no matter if EA app is running or not before starting the game.
And finally, if you set the command line args in a shortcut - it never works.
So please, fix it, it's really annoying.
Some technical info - when you start the game from a shortcut with some parameters, the game runs Origin or EA app by opening this:
origin2://game/launch/?offerIds=<some IDs>&cmdParams=<command line parameters>
The program that opens "origin2://" protocol is defined in a registry key: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\origin2\shell\open\command".
For Origin - the program is "Origin.exe", so the main app.
For EA app - it's set to "EALauncher.exe", which in turns runs "EALaunchHelper.exe" (still with that "origin2://" info as the first parameter), which in turns run "EADesktop.exe" (without that "origin2://" info). So clearly there's a problem with communication between "EALaunchHelper.exe" and "EADesktop.exe".
- anadius13 years agoNew Rookie@crinrict Doesn't really help that the other one is marked as "Solved". I'll probably make a workaround and post on MTS before EA does anything about it. -_- It will use args from a shortcut, not those set in EA app, but at least it will work.
- crinrict3 years agoHero+
@anadius1 EA knows about it and it's a different issue as the one in this thread though.
It was marked as solved by OP and they posted in the EA app forum I believe.- SimQARobo3 years ago
EA Staff
Hello @anadius1
What version number of EA App are you using?Also, what arguments are you using?
When I launched the game through shortcut with arguments in EA App, the arguments worked for me. I tried the -w and -disablepacks arguments, and am using EA App version 12.56.0.