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[Arma 3 Launcher]: Option to select .exe
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Description

I would be very handy if the launcher had a setting which allows us to select the executable from a drop down menu (Simple file picker would work as well).
The launcher would then use that executable with the set startup parameters e.g., mods

Details

Severity
Feature
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
Launcher

Event Timeline

R3vo created this task.Feb 27 2021, 10:37 AM
heyoxe added a subscriber: heyoxe.Feb 27 2021, 11:59 AM
Azeh added a subscriber: Azeh.Feb 27 2021, 1:02 PM
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Performance and profiling binaries

h- added a subscriber: h-.Feb 28 2021, 9:05 AM
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severgun added a comment.EditedFeb 28 2021, 8:52 PM

If you can just don't use this option(as well as window, skipIntro, nosplash) why you are so mad about it?

I don't have any other executables - but if you refer to performance, profiling and diagnostics - why should they be selectable from the main launcher, which is intented towards the casual majority of the playerbase - which just want to play the game? If you do feel any needs for selecting performance, profiling or diagnostics you sure have good reasons for it why to do so - and from such users it's about to be expected they know their way around a command line to start the executable with specific parameteres themlselfs.

Please stop commenting, thanks.

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Search the web how many "false reports" are out there cause someone for what ever reason has wrongly selected 32bit and then reports "a poorly running game" - when the solution would simply be: "use 64bit instead" - I guess you can come up with quite a lot - maybe even more than those spamming this feedback tracker wrongly with support requests ...

The perf/prof binaries are only available on a specific branch, I don't see how a casual user could chose them by mistake.

and from such users it's about to be expected they know their way around a command line to start the executable with specific parameteres themlselfs.

Yes we could use the command line but having that option in the launcher alongside every other parameters that Arma provide is far more convinent than the cli

dedmen added subscribers: cryptearth, dedmen.EditedMar 1 2021, 11:46 AM

@cryptearth please stop derailing tickets. This is the third time I see that from you now, its getting annoying. This is a valid ticket (albeit a duplicate)