FOUNDRY: Easy Method to Skip the Launcher

Both of these methods just involve opening your Steam game launch options & changing the launch command; nothing more, nothing less. Just go to your game properties on Steam (right click > Properties) & on the General tab there’s a field that says “Launch Options”, which is what we’ll be changing.

Change your launch options to include the path to Foundry.exe (wherever you may have installed it) in quotations, followed by %command%
For example:

or

If you don’t know how to find the path to your game, right-click > Manage > Browse Local Files, & copy the path at the top of the explorer window. When you paste it into the Launch Options field, make sure you add the leading quote first, then just ctrl+V & follow that up with \Foundry.exe” %command%

(If you only have one hard drive, you can probably use that first example verbatim without even needing to check.)

That’s all it takes!

I’ll come clean: I don’t actually have a Steam Deck. But people were asking on the windows-only guide if that method would work for Steam Deck (pretty sure it won’t lol), so I did a quick google search. This is what I found, so I figured I’d put it here to make it easier for others to find.

Originally posted by punkgeek on reddit:

btw: if you want to skip the launcher you can optionally change the command-line for launching the game to the following:

eval $( echo “%command%” | sed -E “s#dowser.exe#Foundry.exe#g” )

It doesn’t seem like you need the whole path to the game, just this command, so that’s cool! The rest of the steps for finding and changing the Launch Options should be the same, though. Probably.

That should be it. Close your game Properties window & press Play, the game should launch without anything else trying to pop up before it! I hope this helped!

Thanks to Peadge on Steam for the original guide since that helped me figure out the original launcher command, and thanks to Reddit user u/punkgeek for posting the version of the command that works on Steamdeck!