how to launch Alliance mod from shortcut?

[Dan]

So got forces of corruption working on game ranger and we got the Alliance mod 5.0B. everything is working with steam pointing to the mod BUT ... game ranger launches from the forces of corruption exe directly. All would be fine but Alliance doesn't have an exe file .. just a batch file. I tried opening the batch file but it loads FoC instead of the Alliance mod. I also tried creating a shortcut from steam but it just points to the FoC exe without the launch options.

-thanx

[Gr3atsaga]

Try creating a Mod shortcut that you can point Gameranger to.. All you need to do is point the shortcut target to the mod's .bat file, so something like this should be in your target string:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption\Alliance.bat"

The quotes are supposed to be there

[Dan]

Tried that.. the problem is when I launch the shortcut it launches EaW base. FoC doesn't launch. Even when I launch the FoC exe in the corruption folder EaW launches instead.

[Gr3atsaga]

Originally posted by Dan:

Tried that.. the problem is when I launch the shortcut it launches EaW base. FoC doesn't launch. Even when I launch the FoC exe in the corruption folder EaW launches instead.

There you go, that's what you shoudl have explained. Yes, that is because Steam thinks FoC is DLC to EaW... which means launching FoC without some special coding (of which I am not sure of ) will launch EaW instead on Steam. I know of one person that claims he made a launcher that successfully launches Steam FoC... I don't remember who they are but I know they could tell you how.

[Dan]

FIX... it was my bad ... so when GameRanger launches it reads the mod path ... if the mod path changes with GameRanger open it will not recognize the changes and needs to be completely quit out and relaunched...