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Most of you probably choose the highway, but this is my way—a no-frills manual addition of regular Windows games, That's not originally installed by the games' installers. For the games that are, I feel it's hit and miss when using the Launchbox add-on function.

To set up Ready2Play (or pre-installed games), you should place them in the Launchbox directory. By nesting the game directory within the Launchbox directory, you ensure that the entire setup becomes completely portable. This means you can simply copy or move the entire Launchbox directory to a different drive, and it will continue to work seamlessly. This convenience proves especially useful if you ever need to relocate it to another storage medium.

Two games are used as an example:

Batman Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition (HW PhysX engine turned off) and Need for Speed - Carbon (HD modified version for current GPU technology).

Create a text file with the name of the target game. This will fool Launchbox into downloading the game info—just make sure you name it according to what Launchbox expects the game name to be. Once the data for the game is downloaded, go and edit the launch section to find the real executable that launches the game. Replace the text file you've just used as placeholder, and voila! You can now launch the game from Launchbox.

You've got eye candy and can eat it too.

Have fun.

My Gaming Spec:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080
Mainboard: ASUS ROG Dark Hero
64 GB DDR4 memory
OS: Windows 11
Front End: LaunchBox (13.5)

Music Credits:
Jan Hammer - Brave New World (Beyond The Mind's Eye)
Love and Rockets - So Alive (instrumental with background vocals only)