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| Homdax |
Posted on 11-10-2019 16:32
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Homeworld2.exe Command-Line Parameters - ripped from ThoughtProcess at http://hw2wiki.net/wiki.hw2.info/Comm...eters.html Many external links obsolete. Instructions (from the HW2 Modding FAQ) Go to the directory where you installed Homeworld 2 and go to the "\bin\release\" folder and find the file called "homeworld2.exe" Example: "c:\program files\sierra\homeworld2\bin\release\homeworld2.exe" Right-click on this file and select Create Shortcut from the drop-down menu. After you do this there should be a new icon at the end of the list called "homeworld2.exe". Right-click on that icon and select Cut from the menu. Now, close all the windows you opened and right-click on any open space on your desktop. Select Paste from the drop-down menu. Now, you should have an icon on your desktop that says "Homeworld2.exe". Right-click on this icon again and click on Properties from the drop down menu. Find the target line, which should look something like this (with quotes): "c:\program files\sierra\homeworld2\bin\release\homeworld2.exe" At the end of this line add a space and then "-overrideBigFile" (without quotes). So, in the end your target line will look like this: "c:\program files\sierra\homeworld2\bin\release\homeworld2.exe" -overrideBigFile Finally, click on the Ok button. Verified -overrideBigFile Enables the data folder on the disk to be loaded over any data in the .big files. -locale <language> Loads the specified <language>.big instead of English.big (or whatever language version you have.) -mod <modification.big> Loads <modification.big> after the other .big files are loaded, this implies -overrideBigFile. -luatrace Lua debugging will be outputted to hw2.log. -w <width> Screen resolution width, has to be used in conjunction with correct height. -h <height> Screen resolution height, has to be used in conjunction with correct width. -d <int> Unknown, likely BPP.-depth? -refresh <refresh rate> Changes the refresh rate. Set it to your desktop resolution and refresh rate for quick alt-tabbing. -fullscreen Enables fullscreen view. -windowed Enables windowed view. (-- seems to also display debug errors as popups - Tamerlane) -debug Unknown. but confirmed disabled by relic --useRandomSeed Used to eliminate MP sync errors. probably deprecated with 1.1 patch -dumpPlayBalanceStats Unknown, something to do with multiplayer. Outputs a CSV file containing additional end-of-game stats to the "\Bin\LOGFILES\" directory. -Mikail Causes the game to lock up when entering Gamespy. -Mikail -quickLoad Appears to load HW2 without alot of graphical 'perks', textures being one of them -Tamerlane -port <port number> Force Homeworld 2 to use the given port. -freeMouse In windowed mode free the mouse from being constrained by the window boundaries. -noInt3 turns off debug code which exits the game with an error.-What? Use proper grammar please. -lowTex Unknown. -datapath <path> Sets the data path, where data will be loaded from. (Internally, by default, it is ..\..\Data\) -filelog Unknown. -logfiles <path?> Unknown. --produceHODMemoryInfo Unknown. -ssBW Take black & white screenshots. -ssBoth Take black & white, and colour screenshots. -ssTGA Take screenshots in TGA format. -ssJPG Take screenshots in JPG format. -ssNoLogo Take screenshots without logo. -startFleet <int> The files in the scripts\startingfleets directory are Hiigaran00.lua and Vaygr00.lua. Create new ones with different contents called Hiigaran01.lua and Vaygr01.lua. Now you can use the -startFleet 0 or -startFleet 1 to switch between the starting lineups. -superTurbo Makes the in-game timer go very fast. (Eg, the Hiigaran Mothership moves about the same speed as a Hiigaran Fighter in normal speed.) --bgSim Unknown. -noS3TC Disables S3 Texture Compression. -noDisplayLists Disables display lists. -nopbuffer Disables pixel buffer. effectivly disables shadows -noRenderToTexture Unknown. -noRenderToDepthTexture Unknown. crashes during load? -noSoundData Unknown. -nosound Runs the game without sound. Useful if trying to rule out sound problems. -noRender Disables display rendering. -texLoadNoROT Sets preference of 2D DDS and TGA resources over ROTs -texLoadPreferROT Sets preference of 2D ROT resources over DDS and TGA resources -texLoadMostRecent Sets preference of 2D resources via file date? -texLoadAlwaysROT Forces loading of ROT files -noMipMap Disables mip-mapping. does not seem to work -EJ -hardwareCursor enable hardware cursor. -fragment_program <int> Seems to disable scar and utility scripts in some cases -nv_reg_combiners2 <int> Unknown. Nvidea shader spec for old cards -SC -nv_reg_combiners_up <int> Unknown. Nvidea Shader spec only -SC -nv_reg_combiners <int> Unknown. Nvidea shader all of above Nvidea cards -env_combine_up <int> Unknown. ATI range cards -SC -ATI_combine3 <int> Unknown. ATI range cards -SC -env_combine4 <int> Unknown. ATI range cards -SC -env_combine3 <int> Unknown. ATI Range Cards -SC -env_crossbar2 <int> Unknown. -env_combine2 <int> Unknown. ATI range cards -SC -GameRules <str> Brings the requested gamerule to the top of the list, in skirmishes and MP (handy if you're doing alot of editing). Requires the gamerule filename, without the extension. -gameendexec <str> Unknown. -scriptFile <file?> Unknown. -syncCheckingLevel <int> Unknown. -unitCapsMode <str> Unknown. Probably the name of a DATA:scripts/unitcaps .lua to load? -noVideoErrors Disables error messages caused by incompatible graphics cards, video settings, etc. -noMovies (or --noMovies?) Skips ALL movies, including story-related ones. -NoATITOSetting Turn off all ATI and TO (the graphics that appear over units in game). does not seem to work -EJ -noVBO Disables support for Vertex Buffer Objects. crashes during load ? - EJ -noHSClip Unknown. -noHSRender Unknown. May turn off Hyperspace effect rendering? -noBattleScar Unknown. May disable battle scar effects (scorch marks etc.)? -battleScar_noHealthCap Unknown. -battleScar_noTriCap Unknown. -syncCheckingLevel <int> Unknown. -noWinLose <bool> Unknown. -outOfSync <int> Unknown. -exec <str> Unknown. Probably executes commands through the command shell (e.g. MS-DOS), like the "execute" function. - Mikail -notForPublic Displays the not for public display ui in game, from mission 3 onwards in the campain. There's a disabled UI screen called NotForPublicDisplay. Maybe they're related? - Mikail Possibly, perhaps something related to Beta versions of Homeworld2? - Thought -silentErrors Disables popup debug windows. -campaign <campaign name> Select a 'custom' campaign to be used (best used in combination with -startinglevel) -startinglevel <level name> Select a 'custom' level to load at start up (best used in combination with -campaign) Unverified -bunny As in, Easter Bunny? I thought I remembered a Relic developer mentioning something about this on the Relic forums soon after the game was released. -Mikail -noShadowBatch -persist -Init <?> -load <?> -debugName <?> -movieRecord <?> -absCoord <bool> -movieFPS <float> More (thanks to SnakeChiken) Graphics -800 800x600 Resolution -640 640x480 Resolution -1024 1024x768 Resolution -1280 1280x1024 Resolution It is really 1280 x 980, if you want 1280x1024 (LCD) go to -w 1280 -h 1024 -1600 1600x1200 Resolution -d8 8-bit Colours -d16 16-bit Colours -d24 24-bit Colours -d36 36-bit Colours -fullscreen Starts the game in a full screen - is on by default -window -w #1 -h #2 Starts the game in a window, resolution #1x#2 -truecolour Uses 24-bit colour with sharper rendering -d3d Uses direct 3D -gl Forces OpenGL -device <sw|fx|d3d> Uses RGL device -boxes All ships become boxier -noBG No backgrounds are shown -sw Resets renderers to default settings -noFilter Disables bi-linear Filters -noSmooth Disables polygon smoothing - may improve game performace -disablePacking Disables the packed textures -niltextures Disables wallpapers -noborder Disables window borders -NoFETextures Disables front-end textures -noshowdamage Ships will not show damage effects -stipple Stipples renderer alpha -docklines Shows docking lines - is on by default -gunlines Shows the target line - is on by default Sound -closeCaptioned Subtitled Cutscenes -dsound Uses direct sound driver -noSpeech Disables all voices -reversestereo Reverses stereo - Left becomes Right and vice versa -waveout Output converted to WAV Debug -debug Debug mode - useful after a crash -nodebugInt Disables 3rd Mode Error -intonsync Makes an integer 3 when a sync. error occurs -gatherstats Gathers statistics -heap (x) Global memory size heap setter - set (x) to a number - in MB -lightlines Light lines are shown in debug mode -textfeedback All feedback you recieve is stored in a text file in the main HW2 directory -luatrace Logs scripting errors to ..\Homeworld 2\Bin\Release\Hw2.log Multiplayer & Logging -forceLAN Allows you to play a LAN game with other versions -logOn Enables the text files after a multiplayer match -logOff Disables Multiplayer Logs -logonverbose Enables verbose logging files -logfileloads Logs data files loaded -aiplayerlog Logs AI player data in text files -captaincyLogOff Disables end-of-match text reports -captaincyLogOn Enables the text files after a battle -statlogon Enables the Stats text files - use in conjunction with the above cheat. Demos -demorecord Records a demo - used in conjunction with the above cheat -demoplay Plays a demo -packetrecord Records packets during multiplayes skirmishes - used in conjunction with the above cheat -packetplay Plays packet recordings -debugsync Records packets and auto-saves frequently AI -determcompplayer Computer players are more determined - makes for harder matches -noretreat Disables AI retreat tactics -noCompPlayers Eliminates all CPU players Miscellany -locale <language> Loads <language>.big instead of the default language (e.g. English.big) -mod <modfile.big> Loads <modfile.big> as an additional *.big file. -disableAVI Auto-skips all cutscenes -disableKatmai Disables KNI -forcekatmai Use KNI -nohint Disables the hints from the SM -slowblits Enables slow screen blips -smCentreCamera Focuses the camera at the center of the map when Home is pressed -testNIS NIS testing -testnisscript NIS testing using the SCRIPT files -noMinimise Overrides Alt+Tab command when process is running -noPause The game will not be auto-paused when Alt+Tab or the WinKey is pressed. -freemouse Use F11 to toggle edge-of-screen pan (overrides all Function commands) -overridebigfile Overrides BIG files - for mods -ignorebigfiles Same as above -cdpath x: path Sets path to CD - x is name of CD drive -prepath x:path Sets path to open files - x is name of drive Unverified -r2DDebug -ssSetSuperSample -ssSetCompression -skeletonShip -dp8sim -dpsim -conin -maxplayers < > -saveOutputFile -bgSim -todo (load defaults from teamcolours.lua) -starfield -luaplayer_console Edited by Homdax on 17-10-2019 09:22 king-o'da'bigfile
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| Homdax |
Posted on 11-10-2019 16:37
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Posts: 762 Joined: August 30 2005 |
For Wide screen monitors and resolution you will want to consider 16:9 aspect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9_as...pect_ratio 1024 x 576 1280 x 720 HD 1366 x 768 WXGA 1600 x 900 HD+ 1920 x 1080 Full HD 2048 x 1152 2560 x 1440 QHD 2880 x 1620 3200 x 1800 QHD+ 3840 x 2160 4K UHD 4096 x 2304 5120 x 2880 5K 7680 x 4320 8K UHD 15360 x 8640 16K UHD Add values to command line end like -w 1920 -h 1080 keeping the spaces between. Example: Quote G:\Homeworld2\Bin\Release\Homeworld2.exe -overrideBigFile -w 1920 -h 1080 king-o'da'bigfile
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| Homdax |
Posted on 11-11-2019 19:29
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Posts: 762 Joined: August 30 2005 |
Remastered information Mikali used these for HW@ development in HW2Classsic E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Homeworld\Homeworld2Classic\Bin\Release\Homeworld2.exe -overrideBigFile -luatrace -windowed -w1600 -h900 -noMovies -hardwareCursor -ssTGA -moddatapath DataGameplayEnhancedHWU with the datafolder located here E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Homeworld\Homeworld2Classic\DataGameplayEnhancedHWU From here: https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/t/.../1383836/8 king-o'da'bigfile
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