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<FILE TITLE="Command line parameters">
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<CHAP TITLE="Introduction">
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When you launch Liquid War 5, you can use command line options.
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If you have no problems launching Liquid War,
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this section should not interest you very much.
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You can use several options at the same time.
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The basic syntax for options looks like this:
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lw -option1 -option2 parameter2 -option3 parameter3 -option4 -option5
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Note that most of the options are legacy options which where usefull
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with the initial releases of Liquid War, when you had to run in a
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Windows DOS box, and when there were still plenty of 486 computers
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<CHAP TITLE="Version checking">
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These are basic options which can be usefull to figure out
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which release of Liquid War is installed.
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"-v" : returns the version number of the program.
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"-h" : displays a short description and copyright information.
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<CHAP TITLE="Changing default paths">
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Very usefull options, especially if you can not install Liquid War
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in default directories or want to put the game in a special place.
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"-cfg myconfigfile.cfg" : causes Liquid War to use the specified
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"-dat mydatafilefile.dat" : causes Liquid War to use the specified
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datafile. This might be a very interesting option if you run
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Liquid War on a GNU/Linux box where you do not have root access and
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therefore can not put the datafile in /usr.
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"-map mycustommapdir" : causes Liquid War to use the specified
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directory as the user map directory. The user map directory
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is where you can put plain bitmaps to be used as maps.
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"-tex mycustomtexturedir" : causes Liquid War to use the specified
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directory as the user texture directory. The user texture directory
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is where you can put plain bitmaps to be used as textures.
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"-mid mycustommusicdir" : causes Liquid War to use the specified
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directory as the user music directory. Any midi file placed in this
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directory will be added to the list of available musics.
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<CHAP TITLE="Troubleshooting switches">
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These options give you control on how Liquid War treats
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initialisation errors, how much memory it should reserve,
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what kind of video mode sit should not choose etc...
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This option forces Liquid War to use your video card
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as if it was only a basic VGA card.
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This option is required if you play Liquid War from Windows NT.
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This option disables the VGA 400x300 video mode.
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I created this options for I know that some video cards/monitors
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don't support the 400x300 mode.
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With this option, Liquid War will not play any sound.
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It will not search for any sound card.
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This can be interesting if you don't have any sound card
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or if Liquid War doesn't handle your card correctly.
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Causes Liquid War not to load any water sound.
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Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
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and you should gain about 850kb.
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Causes Liquid War not to load any sound fx.
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Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
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and you should gain about 150kb.
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Causes Liquid War not to load any midi music.
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The parameter "n" sets the amount of memory (in Mb)
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Liquid War will allocate to do all its calculus.
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If this number is too small, you won't be able to play
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If it is too high, Liquid War may not start at all
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or crash while you are playing.
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The default value is 8.
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If you play Liquid War from Windows and Liquid War
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refuses to run because this parameter is too high,
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then try and give more dpmi memory to Liquid War.
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This option disables joystick support.
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Causes Liquid War not to load the background image.
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Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
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and you should gain about 300kb.
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Causes Liquid War not to load any texture.
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Use this if Liquid War runs short of memory,
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and you should gain about 750kb.
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If you set this option, Liquid War won't generate
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any error while allocating memory or loading data.
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With this option, you will play with a very reduced
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version of Liquid War. It looks rather ugly but
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should work in a DOS box with only 4Mb of DPMI memory.
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Use this if you experience serious memory or device problems.
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If Liquid War doesn't start with this option turned on,
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I really don't think I can do anything for you...
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With this option, Liquid War will use a mode which
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is between the default mode and the <samp>safe</samp> mode.
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With this option, Liquid War will stop as soon as it detects
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something strange while initializing.
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If you set this option, Liquid War will prompt you for a key
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when the init process is completed.
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This is a weird option, if you turn it on,
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the game will only use fonctions which are programmed in C langage.
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The default behaviour is to use some functions I rewrote
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in assembly langage, so that the game is a little faster.
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<CHAP TITLE="Debug options">
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These options are usefull if you want to debug the game and
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trace what's happening.
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Dumps all the network traffic on the standard output. This
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can help finding problems when trying to connect to the server
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