Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.


Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Topic on Store talk:Uplay

So.. After discovering Steam is itself passing parameters not to be required to Uplay games, I wondered whether executables weren't hiding more interesting switches.

Turns out many of the parameters you pass them, aren't actually "theirs" but Uplays's (which therefore gets in turn them handled)
orbit_orbit_pipe_name
orbituat
upc_uat
upc_dev
upc_local
upc_product_id
upc_uplay_id
upc_arguments
upc_exe_path
upc_game_path
upc_game_version
upc_working_directory
upc_uplay_game_starter_id
upc_steam_free_package_id
upc_steam_required_product_id
upc_steam_bigpicture_mode
upc_language
uplay_dev_mode_simulation_config
uplay_steam_mode
uplay_oculus_mode
uplay_vr_mode
upc_gfn_mode
orbit_uplay_pipe_name
uplay_session
uplay_overlay_no_ui
upc_overlay_disable_create_process_hooks
upc_preview_build
orbit_disable_exception_shield
orbit_launcher_log_dir
orbit_overlay_pipe_name
gamelauncher_wait_handle
gamelauncher_inject_pid
gamelauncher_inject_tid
uplayservice_perform_elevated_restart
uplayservice_perform_elevated_updates
uplayservice_perform_gear
uplayservice_perform_initial_install
uplayservice_perform_set_files_permissions
uplayservice_perform_updates
uplayservice_run_install_script
uplayservice_run_uninstall_script
uplayservice_uninstall_all_games
uplayservice_about_url
uplayservice_help_url
uplayservice_gear_output_file
uplayservice_get_hw_score
uplayservice_game_name
uplayservice_icon_filename
uplayservice_pipe_name
uplayservice_publisher
ucr_report_filename
ucr_hash
ucr_suspend
uplaycrashreporter_pipe_name
ucr_full_process_dump
Other may exist, but I couldn't find anything else with a quick string search across Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\ exe/dlls