Silent install of Games

[CmdrX3]

Haven't found anything on the forums about this

Anyone know if it's possible to silently install a few games (namely Call of Duty, Return to castle wolfenstein and Battlefield Vietnam)

Call of Duty "may" work with a /silent switch, but I get the CD Key screen, which I would like inserted automatically. I would also like to avoid it asking for CD2.

If anyone has got this working - Let us know.

[enuffsaid]

I know for Id Games (RTCW) you could install the game, pack the installation directory into a self-extracting executable, and extract that during your unattended installation.

Possibly you could capture the Add/Remove programs entry for RTCW from the registry and include that too. This in case you might want to update the game in the future.

This method will work for a lot of games. If it complains about dll's it cannot find (in the windows directory), find out which and include those in your self extracting executable. FarCry, for example, writes 5 dll's to the Windows\System32 directory.

Good luck,

eNuffSaid

[Marthax]

find out which type of installer package the game installation uses and use that switches. If the program uses installa shield then you could use wininstaller to edit the *.msi file and make it install silently without any need of switches.

hope this will solve your troubles.