Boot Directly into Last Played Game

[dmauro]

It would be really nice to have GameEx boot right into the last game I've played, but I don't even know if this is possible. I imagine if it's not built into the features, there must be some way I can hack it together. Thanks for any help!

[bkenobi]

There's a last played game menu built into GameEx already. This will bring up a list of the last 10 or so games, not just launch right into the last game though. If you want to do that, I'd suggest creating an application in GameEx that points to the runitgame.bat file. Set that app so it doesn't display info and it should launch straight into the game on selection.

[dmauro]

Yeah, obviously I could just use the last played list, but what I'm interested in here is the novelty of the PC transparently booting into the game I'm currently working on without having to press anything or ever seeing the frontend. It's a pretty superficial need, but it would be really cool.

[bkenobi]

Oh, I didn't see that you wanted to boot straight into the game, not be able to select it with a single click. Ummm, maybe you could put it in a login script or use the launch on start command in GameEx. I understand what you want to do, but I don't know that Tom will find this a widely used feature, so I'm guessing this won't be something that's built into the main program. I'm sure something could be done with a plugin, but you would probably see GameEx come up prior to launching the game.

Yeah, I'd probably go with a startup script if it were me.

[dmauro]

So I guess what I would need to do is make an AHK script or bat file that somehow reads what the last played game is and then tells GameEx to boot it up. Is that even possible, or would the script have to launch the game itself?

[bkenobi]

You don't have to detect anything since Tom already provides you a way to launch the last played game from windows. Just have your script launch the "runitgame.bat" file in the GameEx directory. It contains all commands that were used in launching the script so you don't need to worry about things like running xpadder or whatnot. Anyway, yeah...just use a batch file, or AHK script, or whatever other language you want to launch this game and you should be good...or just put that batch file in the startup command for GameEx/Windows.