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Commandline.txt or command line arguments?

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Mirh (talkcontribs)

As title. Some solutions uses both, some just one. Which should we prefer?

Why the heck there's a -novblank parameter? Shouldn't v-sync already be supposed to be disabled through in-game setting?

RaTcHeT302 (talkcontribs)

Could you please stop making your text so tiny, it's unreadable on my screen and it forces me every time to zoom in, in order to simply understand what the hell you are saying there. Just write normaly.

Mirh (talkcontribs)

Copy-paste inside notepad :p it's fast (or in the url bar)

ThatOneReaper (talkcontribs)

"Command line arguments" as a title has been the standard for a while. No reason to change it now.

Nocta (talkcontribs)

"Command line arguments" seems good to me too.

Garrett (talkcontribs)

The command line parameter explanation is probably preferable since making and editing commandline.txt will be affected by file access restrictions on Windows Vista and later (whereas the parameter method won't cause access errors).

Mirh (talkcontribs)

Personally I don't think that should be something we would have to consider.
I mean, that's something everybody must always take into account(and something that would be nice to mention in a hypotethic "general considerations/troubles" page)

What instead I really believe should be wise to avoid is editing game files when it's possible to sideload them (for example in Saints Row you can just place fixed resources in game root folder) or edit them somewhere else (for example in many UE3 games you can either remove intro videos files, or remove the intro loading code from .ini), since steam releases, if any, could detect original data has modified.

In the case of GTA 4 anyway, we are creating a new one, so the problem doesn't arise. And still, I can't figure out whather we should prefer one or another way

What if we just made "use -### [parameter]" link to command line section of the page where we could explain (once and for all) the two methods?