Arcanum can be started with the following arguments:
-fullscreen
Play the game in full screen (compact UI) mode.
-fps
Display current FPS in the top left corner.
-nosound
Play the game without sound.
-norandom
No random encounters.
-scrollfps:[number]
Scrolling speed. If not specified it will be the default value of 35.
-scrolldist:[number]
Scrolling distance. Set it to 0 to make it infinite. Default: 10.
-mod:[name of a module]
Runs a different module at startup.
-no3d
Play the game in safe mode (software renderer).
-vidfreed[number]
Increases art cache by [number]
-3dref
Uses D3D REF device instead of HAL. (D3D features with software acceleration, very slow, used for testing).
-doublebuffer
Double buffer. May increase performance.
-nonmsmousez
Standard mouse wheel behaviour. (a redundant option?)
-msmousez
Alternative mouse wheel behaviour.
-mpautojoin
Turns on AutoJoin for Multiplayer.
-mpnobcast
Turns on NoBroadcast for Multiplayer.
Command line arguments related to debugging:
(-)tigdebug=[console/debugger/file/mono]
Overrides registry settings. E.g. -tigdebug=console (sets console to 0), tigdebug=debugger (sets debugger to 1), etc.
console - shows debug output in a separate window.
debugger - outputs debug info to your debugger.
file - prints debug info to debug.txt.
mono - outputs debug info to monochrome monitor memory.
-dialognumber
Shows PC dialogue line numbers in game.
-dialogcheck
Checks all dialogue files for missing lines, prints the results in the debug output.
-gendercheck
Checks if characters have correct gender specific descriptions when loading a map. Prints all errors in the debug output.
-logcheck
Checks all log entries, prints the results in the debug output.
Following arguments have been cut out:
The effects of these arguments are still unknown:
-animcatchup
-pathlimit (probably -pathlimit[number])
-pathtimelimit (probably -pathtimelimit[number])
If you find out what any of these command line arguments do, please tell me and I'll update this thread.
Thanks Drog for finding out what most of these arguments do.