Duckstation: prevent gui from showing when booting game?

[Jayinem]

So I am curious if there's a solution to the GUI showing of Duckstation when booting game? They used to have a nogui exe but they stopped including it a few years ago. I have tried adding -nogui like I have with PCSX 2 which works for it but it doesn't work for Duckstation. 

Google AI gave this solution but I tried it and it also did not work.

 

• For frontends like LaunchBox or other launchers, you can often configure a command-line to achieve a similar result.
• Add -fullscreen to the command-line arguments to launch a game in fullscreen.
• Add -batch to the command-line arguments to have the emulator run without a GUI in a batch-like manner.
• Ensure that "Confirm Shutdown" and "Confirm Power Off" options are unchecked in DuckStation's settings to allow it to close cleanly with the -batch command

And yes I also have clicked "attempt to hide console window on startup/shutdown. Still shows it. Admittedly it doesn't show it very long it just flashes but for me the whole point of using Launchbox outside of PC games is to treat emulator games like they're PC games. 

 

The only other solutions I found googling were pre-2023 when they had the no-gui version. There was a thread on here in 2022 and the solution was "use the no-gui exe" but that's no longer an option. As far as I know nothing at least that I can find or have tried works. I really don't understand why the devs of Duckstation had to get rid of the no-gui exe and make it difficult for no reason. 

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Edited 19 hours ago by Jayinem

[JoeViking245]

22 minutes ago, Jayinem said:

So I am curious if there's a solution to the GUI showing of Duckstation when booting game?

This is what I have and is working here.

25 minutes ago, Jayinem said:

Admittedly it doesn't show it very long it just flashes but for me the whole point of using Launchbox outside of PC games is to treat emulator games like they're PC games. 

Check that you have the startup screen enabled.  That's the point (well, one of them) of startup screens. To hide the flash of potential UI's.

[Jayinem]

21 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

This is what I have and is working here.

Check that you have the startup screen enabled.  That's the point (well, one of them) of startup screens. To hide the flash of potential UI's.

Thank you for what I'm sure is the correct and only correct answer. Unfortunately it didn't work but I am using a very old Launchbox like from 2020 or 2021 (I had custom made over 1,000 game covers with nothing indicating any consoles on the games or logos of companies or anything it took me forever and most of them were deleted when I tried to update Launchbox so I went back to the old version and refuse to update) I also did not pay so I have no startup screen option. I guess it's fair to say I can't expect it to work because of those conditions although I don't know why the command lines wouldn't work on an old Launchbox but maybe it's just the lack of startup screen. It's alright if there's no other solution I'll just live with the gui flashing. At least it's only a half second brief flash now it was showing the gui for a few seconds so it did help somewhat. It's just a bit odd that I think Duckstation and PCSX 2 are made by the same devs (or at least the guis look almost identical) and just putting -nogui works for PCSX 2 but not Duckstation. Oh well. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Jayinem

[Jayinem]

Weird I got it to boot with no gui but only by adding ALL FOUR of these commands -nogui -fullscreen -batch -bigpicture

 

Exiting is working properly also. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Jayinem

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, Jayinem said:

It's just a bit odd that I think Duckstation and PCSX 2 are made by the same devs (or at least the guis look almost identical)

To help circumvent any potential "rumors", current production of the 2 emulators are not from the same developers.

The UI's are similar because they use QT something-or-another. I think Dolphin and some others use that as well.

Glad to hear you got it working.