Launch program with arguments usually in shortcut target

Question

I would like to start a process by providing it arguments (not really sure these can be called "arguments"... see below). Now this is a little special:

• The process is a GUI (a game - Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer),
• I have a Windows shortcut to this GUI with the following target : "C:\\Path To Game\\game.exe" + connect [serverip] (Note the +). When I launch this shortcut, the GUI starts and executes the arguments connect [serverip] (the game actually starts and connects to the server).

I tried the following:

1. Process.Start("C:\\Path To Game\\game.exe + connect [serverip]");

   but this obviously end with an Win32Exception "The system cannot find the file specified".

2. var psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
   psi.FileName = "C:\\Path To Game\\game.exe";
   psi.Arguments = "+ connect [serverip]";
   Process.Start(psi);
   

   and this produce an error in the GUI (the game doesn't start and says "WIN_IMPROPER_QUIT_BODY").

Any ideas how to provide these arguments to my process?

Answer 1

You have to use:

psi.Arguments = "+connect [serverip]";

(no space between + and connect).

Answer 2

Is it possible you need to set the WorkingDirectory for the game

string exePath = "C:\\Path To Game\\game.exe";
var psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = exePath;
psi.Arguments = "+ connect [serverip]";
psi.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(exePath);
Process.Start(psi);

Answer 3

Option 2 is the way to go there but what happened to your '+'? It's not a special character, that was just getting passed through to the command, so you need to include it at the start of psi.Arguments too.