Setting Game Launch Options for STEAM

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Setting Game Launch Options

 

Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.

 

 

Under the General tab click the "Set launch options" button.

 

Enter the launch options you wish to apply (be sure to separate each code with a space) and click OK.

Close the game's Properties WINDOW and launch the game.

 

 

 

Monitor

• -w 640 -h 480 (forces the resolution to 640x480)
• -w 800 -h 600 (forces the resolution to 800x600)
• -w 1024 -h 768 (forces the resolution to 1024x768)
• -full (forces fullscreen mode)
• -windowed (forces window mode)
• -freq x (forces the monitor to use x hertz)

Video

• -gl (run in OpenGL)
• -d3d (run in Direct3d)
• -soft (run in SOFTWARE mode)

DirectX

• -dxlevel 90 (DirectX 9)
• -dxlevel 81 (DirectX 8.1)
• -dxlevel 80 (DirectX 8)
• -dxlevel 70 (DirectX 7)
• -dxlevel 60 (DirectX 6)

Other

• -16bpp (forces the colors to 16bit)
• -32bpp (forces the colors to 32bit)
• -heapsize x (specify the number (x) of memory to use)
• -zone x (allocates x amount of KiloBytes of memory for use with the console system)
• -noip (DISABLES the use of UDP, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol)
• -noipx (DISABLES the use of the IPX/SPX protocol)
• -nojoy (disables joystick support (shaves a little bit off the memory footprint)
• -wavonly (disables the use of direct sound (only use if you are having sound problems)
• -noaafonts (disables Anti-Aliasing of screen fonts)
• -autoconfig (restores video and performance settings to default)
• -condebug (logs all console output into the console.log text file)