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Command line parameters?
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Jun 25 2008, 2:32 pm - By Heceldi


Ok, so far, thanks to google and various forums, I know of...

-novideo
-noconsole
-username %s
-password %s

Are there any others?

If anyone has a full list it would be appreciated. (Would also accept pointing me at a means to learn how to find out what all are... as /?  and -? didn't work.)


Jun 25 2008, 2:52 pm - Replied by: marz


I wish I could help, but I'm not certain what you are referring to exactly.
"That which does not kill you, makes you stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche


Jun 25 2008, 3:23 pm - Replied by: Rymar


Uh.. this?
I'm not sure what you're talking about either~

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Jun 25 2008, 3:40 pm - Replied by: Heceldi


No, this...

AgeOfConan.exe -novideo -noconsole -username %1 -password %2

Jun 26 2008, 7:54 am - Replied by: Daederik


you might be interested in this

Quick Start


HoX facts

1. HoX are Mammals
2. HoX flip out and eat hearts ALL THE TIME
3. The purpose of an HoX is to flip out and eat people's hearts

Jun 26 2008, 10:57 am - Replied by: Heceldi


Yes, I use it. I'm interested to know what command line parameters there are. I know the -novideo skips the opening movies.
Jun 26 2008, 11:02 am - Replied by: Yogsototh


So does 'ENTER' :D

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Jun 26 2008, 12:03 pm - Replied by: arcdrag


To all wondering what the hell the OP is talking about:
Nearly all games have commands that can be added to the shortcut to make them run in a certain way.  If you right click on your Age of Conan Shortcut and click properties you should see something like this 

"C:Program FilesFuncomAge of ConanAgeOfConan.exe"

by adding -novideo to this, the game will open without the intro movies.  Granted, Enter also skips the movies after they load, which takes about 1 second on a decent system.  However, it takes a little while for videos to load on the minimum system, and thus several seconds are added to boot time.  

What the OP is asking is what are the other commands.  Most games have a listing of command line parameters in the readme file in their home directory.  AoC however does not have a listing. In a resource intensive game like AoC it seems like there should be plenty of commands that a power user could use to get the most performance that they can.  

To the OP:  I think your best bet would be to actually contact FunCom, or to post on popular AoC modder sites.  
 
Jun 26 2008, 12:29 pm - Replied by: Daederik


Yeah, i'm having a tough time trying to find anything on the subject...at least, not a nice comprehensive listing of stuff.

Anything specific you're trying to do? If you're wanting to code some sort of mod, the source code to that "Quick start" one is available, which may reference some switches in there.


HoX facts

1. HoX are Mammals
2. HoX flip out and eat hearts ALL THE TIME
3. The purpose of an HoX is to flip out and eat people's hearts

Jun 26 2008, 12:55 pm - Replied by: Heceldi


Well, I know of auto-entering of username and password, skipping into movies (which when clicking or pressing enter STILL takes 10-15 seconds to progress through... I have alot of cpu and budget graphics)... and I've HEARD of, but not seen, options to adjust things like priority, affinity, multithreading, and the like.

Using the AoC quickstart application, it allows for a few of these options, but as there ARE these options, there is QUITE likely others as well. The quickstarter also supports entering command line options.

If you want a quick way to run it with command line options without using that program, there is also this batch file...

--- begin aoc.bat---
@ECHO off
IF EXIST LocalConfig.xml.bak GOTO bypass
COPY LocalConfig.xml LocalConfig.xml.bak
:bypass
TYPE LocalConfig.xml | FIND /V "" > LocalConfig.xml.tmp
MOVE LocalConfig.xml.tmp LocalConfig.xml
AgeOfConan.exe -novideo -noconsole -username %1 -password %2
MOVE LocalConfig.xml.bak LocalConfig.xml
---end aoc.bat---

Which would run like this....
Copy between the lines beginning with --- (but not those lines)
Paste it into a new text file
Save it as aoc.bat
Put it in your AoC folder
Make a shortcut to it
Edit the shortcut so that the 'target' looks like this...
"D:GamesAge of Conanaoc.bat" yourusername yourpassword
Run it
You'll be taken right to the login screen, with everything inputted, skipping patcher and opening videos.

The line...
AgeOfConan.exe -novideo -noconsole -username %1 -password %2
...is the magic place you can put command line options.

As per what a command line option is, I'll quote http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/command+line+option
command line option :
(Or "option", "flag", "switch", "option switch") An
argument to a command that modifies its function rather than
providing data. Options generally start with "-" in Unix or
"/" in MS-DOS. This is usually followed by a single letter
or occasionally a digit. More recently, GNU software
adopted the --longoptionname style, usually in addition to
traditional, single-character, -x style equivalents.

If you want to see an example of what they are in other programs, click on your Start button, then click Run...

Type in CMD and hit enter (if this does nothing, try COMMAND)

You'll be taken to a 'command prompt'.

Now, at the command prompt, type the same thing you did before (CMD or COMMAND), and this time add a /? to it

Like this...
cmd /?
or command /?

This will show what command line options are available for the command interpreter






Jul 08 2008, 12:57 pm - Replied by: Crofe



Heceldi wrote:
I've HEARD of, but not seen, options to adjust things like priority, affinity, multithreading, and the like.


I don't think these are command line flags.  I remember having to use a Microsoft distributed program to edit the affinity of a program awhile ago (so it stayed edited), but I don't remember what I had to do.  If you're searching for affinity and command line, this might be why you can't find anything on it.  Priority and multithreading are under the same category as affinity and so finding one might lead to the others.
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