Need help writing a simple BAT file

[Bender]

Ok, I'm not a scripter I never scripted a line of code in my life so bear with me.
I need a simple BAT file that will shutdown 2 programs and restart a game. This is for if the game crashes it will do what task manager does and ends both processes and then restart the game, this is what my friend wrote, and it doesn't work.

I think I'm just having trouble on the restart of the game part.

tskill hl2
tskill GameOverlayUI
START C:\Progra~1\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 320

[Dr Gonzo]

Well run through the problem line by line:

tskill hl2 - Does this end the app you wanted it to?
tskill GameOverlayUI - Does this end what you want it to?

I see no reason why they shouldn't, so I'll presume they are working correctly.

The next thing you want to do, is run your game.

'START' is the correct command to run here, but Instead of just running the .exe for the game, you're trying to process the launch through steams own application launcher?

I don't have steam myself, but I was under the impression that this was unnecesary. Back when I had CS installed, I could just

win + R > cs > enter

(due to the environment variables I had set up.)

I know you need to login to Steam, but if Steam is already running (you haven't tskill'ed it anyway), then why don't you just START the .exe itself?

If you are logged out of steam, then just add another line onto the BAT that logs you back in.

[VolatileShiftInPersona]

Don't you need to affix .exe to hl2 and GameOverLayUI?

[Dr Gonzo]

Originally Posted by VolatileShiftInPersona

Don't you need to affix .exe to hl2 and GameOverLayUI?

Nope, try it yourself. Open up notepad, then navigate to CMD, and 'tskill notepad'.

[Bender]

Originally Posted by Dr Gonzo

Well run through the problem line by line:

tskill hl2 - Does this end the app you wanted it to?
tskill GameOverlayUI - Does this end what you want it to?

I see no reason why they shouldn't, so I'll presume they are working correctly.

The next thing you want to do, is run your game.

'START' is the correct command to run here, but Instead of just running the .exe for the game, you're trying to process the launch through steams own application launcher?

I don't have steam myself, but I was under the impression that this was unnecesary. Back when I had CS installed, I could just

win + R > cs > enter

(due to the environment variables I had set up.)

I know you need to login to Steam, but if Steam is already running (you haven't tskill'ed it anyway), then why don't you just START the .exe itself?

If you are logged out of steam, then just add another line onto the BAT that logs you back in.

Thanks so what I can see from what you posted it should be?

tskill hl2
tskill GameOverlayUI
START hl2.exe

I have auto login so as soon as Steam starts up i'm good to go. Well wouldn't it be easier to do the exe, beacuse if I ran the program it automatically starts Steam to run it anyhow. I'll give that code a try.

[Bender]

EDIT

tskill hl2
tskill GameOverlayUI
START G:\steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 320

Success. Now phase two of my nooby scripting quest. How can I bind this to a key combination?

[Dr Gonzo]

Right click the .bat, 'Copy', then right click somewhere else, and 'Paste Shortcut'.

Press ALT + Enter on the shortcut, then navigate to the "Shortcut" tab. Once in there you will see an input box for Keyboard Shortcut. Just click in there, and press the desired combination.

[Bender]

Originally Posted by Dr Gonzo

Right click the .bat, 'Copy', then right click somewhere else, and 'Paste Shortcut'.

Press ALT + Enter on the shortcut, then navigate to the "Shortcut" tab. Once in there you will see an input box for Keyboard Shortcut. Just click in there, and press the desired combination.

Awesome TYVM.