STARTING THE GAME FROM A BATCH FILE tutorial - Play Balancing Mod for HWRM for Homeworld: Remastered

STARTING THE GAME FROM A BATCH FILE
If, like me, you start running out of space in the "Target" field of your
desktop shortcut, you can start the game from a batch file. Here is what one of
my batch files looks like:

	e:
	cd %HWRM%\Bin\Release
	HomeworldRM.exe -overrideBigFile -luatrace -hardwareCursor -w 800 -h 600 -windowed -ssTGA -moddatapath DataPlayBalancingHWRM -freeMouse -traceHODs  -nosound -noMovies -quickLoad  -campaign playbalancing -startinglevel testlevel -superTurbo -logfilename=%HWRM%\Bin\Release\HwRM_left.log
	pause

The first line switches to the E:\ drive, since that is where I have Homeworld
Remastered installed. The second line switches the current working directory
to the "Release" folder, which contains the game's executable. The game won't
start unless you do this first! The third line actually starts the game using
the command line switches you have selected. I actually use more switches than
you see above, since I run multiple instances of the game, and need the game to
write to separate log files. The last line pauses the command prompt window so
that it doesn't disappear right away. If the game quits and there are error
messages, they will appear in the command prompt window.

Note that %HWRM% is an environmental system variable. You can create these
variables to store frequently used strings of text, such as paths to files and
folders that you work on frequently. Here are some instructions on how to use
and set up environmental variables:

Support.microsoft.com

These instructions should be applicable to most versions of MS Windows.