Greetings all. Outside of "-norandom" and "-fullscreen", are there any other arguments/options to the Arcanum.exe command line? Thanks
Here's a list of all of them, straight from arcanum.exe. Although, I never bothered to find out what all of them do. Moreover, some of them may even be disabled (in fact the developers talked about -norandom being disabled in one of irc chats, since it's a cheat, but turns out they forgot about it in the end). Earlier builds had more options, like -loadlastsave for example, but they were cut later. Anyway, here's the list, with my comments. -logcheck // Checks all log entries, prints the results to the debug log (debug.txt). The debugger must be turned on. -mod: // Runs a different module. E.g. -mod:vormantown -scrolldist: -scrollfps: // Scrolling speed. E.g. set it to 300 and the screen will be scrolling really fast -gendercheck -dialognumber // Shows line numbers for all PC lines -dialogcheck // Checks all dialog files for missing lines, prints the results to the debug log. The debugger must be turned on. -patchlvl -fullscreen // Compact-UI mode -mpnobcast -mpautojoin -pathtimelimit -pathlimit -msmousez -nonmsmousez -norandom // No random encounters. -animdebug -animcatchup -vidfreed -doublebuffer // Double buffer. May help on some systems -3dref -no3d // Software renderer. No severe memory leaks in this mode -nosound // No sound -fps // Shows an fps counter in the top left corner. NOTE: To enable the debugger add this to registry: Code: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Troika\TIG] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Troika\TIG\Debug Output] "console"=dword:00000001 "debugger"=dword:00000001 "file"=dword:00000001 "mono"=dword:00000000 You can then Alt+Tab from the game to the debugger.
Thank you, Drog. BTW: Thanks for all of your other work for the betterment of Arcanum. (UAP, etc..). I find it fascinating that there is more support for a 'defunct' game now than when it was still new-ish.
Just add them to the command line in the Arcanum short cut. I believe it's the 'Target:' line... i.e. "C:\Program Files\Sierra\Arcanum\Arcanum.exe -fullscreen"