Cheats

Start the game with one of the following command line parameters to activate the corresponding cheat function

Result

Command Line Parameter

Enable debug mode debug

Disable int 3 after fatal error nodebugInt

Disable galaxy backgrounds noBG

Disable default CPU players noCompPlayer

Disable tactics notactics

Disables retreat tactics noretreat

Disable FMV sequences disableAVI

Fatal errors do not generate int 3 before exiting nodebugInt

Sets global memory heap size heap

Sets path to search for opening files prepath

Sets path to CDROM CDpath

Press F11 to toggle free mouse movement freemouse

Do not use anything from bigfiles ignoreBigfiles

Create log of data files loaded logFileLoads

Do not use KNI even if support is detected disableKatmai

Force usage of KNI even if determined to be unavailable forceKatmai

Turn all sound effects off noSound

Turn all speech off noSpeech

swap the left and right audio channels reverseStereo

Force mixer to write to Waveout waveout

Force mixer to write to DirectSound driver dsound

Disable bilinear filtering of textures noFilter

Do not use polygon smoothing noSmooth

Do not load textures nilTexture

Turn off front end textures NoFETextures

Enable stipple alpha software renderer stipple

Disable ship damage effects noShowDamage

Reset rendering system to defaults at startup sw

Display fullscreen with software renderer default fullscreen

Display in a window window

No border on window noBorder

640x480 resolution default 640

800x600 resolution 800

1024x768 resolution 1024

1280x1024 resolution 1280

1600x1200 resolution 1600

16 bit color d16

24 bit color d24

32 bit color d32

Try 24 bit modes before 1516 bit truecolor

Use slow screen blits slowBlits

Select an rGL device by name sw fx d3d device

Select default OpenGL as renderer gl

Select Direct3D as renderer d3d

Disable usage of OpenGL perspective correction hints nohint

No pausing with Alt Tab noPause

No minimize with Alt Tab noMinimize

Show dock lines dockLines

Show gun lines gunLines

Show light lines in debug mode lightLines

Render bounding bowties on the ships boxes

Enable text feedback in game commands textFeedback

Enable AI Player logging aiplayerLog

CPU players are deterministic determCompPlayer

Enable gathering of stats gatherStats

Turn off captaincy log file captaincyLogOff

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