Liquid War 5 command line options
Introduction |
Video |
Sound |
Joystick |
Memory |
Bitmap loading |
Path |
Misc
Introduction
When you launch Liquid War 5, you can use command line options.
If you have no problems launching Liquid War,
this section should not interest you very much.
You can use several options at the same time.
The basic syntax for options looks like this:
lw -option1 -option2 parameter2 -option3 parameter3 -option4 -option5.
Video
- vga
-
This option forces Liquid War to use your video card
as if it was only a basic VGA card.
This option is required if you play Liquid War from Windows NT.
- no400300
-
This option disables the VGA 400x300 video mode.
I created this options for I know that some video cards/monitors
don't support the 400x300 mode.
Sound
- silent
-
With this option, Liquid War will not play any sound.
It will not search for any sound card.
This can be interesting if you don't have any sound card
or if Liquid War doesn't handle your card correctly.
- nowater
-
Causes Liquid War not to load any water sound.
Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
and you should gain about 850kb.
- nosfx
-
Causes Liquid War not to load any sound fx.
Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
and you should gain about 150kb.
Joystick
- nojoy
-
This option disables joystick support.
Memory
- mem n
-
The parameter n sets the amount of memory (in Mb)
Liquid War will allocate to do all its calculus.
If this number is too small, you won't be able to play
on all the levels.
If it is too high, Liquid War may not start at all
or crash while you are playing.
The default value is 8.
If you play Liquid War from Windows and Liquid War
refuses to run because this parameter is too high,
then try and give more dpmi memory to Liquid War.
Bitmap loading
- noback
-
Causes Liquid War not to load the background image.
Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
and you should gain about 300kb.
- notex
-
Causes Liquid War not to load any texture.
Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
and you should gain about 750kb.
Path
- cfg path
-
The path parameter allows you to define a new config file.
Default value is data\lw.cfg.
- dat path
-
The path parameter allows you to define a new data file.
Default value is data\lw.dat.
- map path
-
The path parameter allows you to define
a new directory for your user maps.
Default value is custom\map\.
- tex path
-
The path parameter allows you to define
a new directory for your user textures.
Default value is custom\texture\.
Misc
- auto
-
If you set this option, Liquid War won't generate
any error while allocating memory or loading data.
- safe
-
With this option, you will play with a very reduced
version of Liquid War. It looks rather ugly but
should work in a DOS box with only 4Mb of DPMI memory.
Use this if you experience serious memory or device problems.
If Liquid War doesn't start with this option turned on,
I really don't think I can do anything for you...
- nice
-
With this option, Liquid War will use a mode which
is between the default mode and the safe mode.
- check
-
With this option, Liquid War will stop as soon as it detects
something strange while initializing.
- stop
-
If you set this option, Liquid War will prompt you for a key
when the init process is completed.
- c
-
This is a weird option, if you turn it on,
the game will only use fonctions which are programmed in C langage.
The default behaviour is to use some functions I rewrote
in assembly langage, so that the game is a little faster.
Main page:
http://www.mygale.org/~ufoot/lw5/lw5.htm