Launch Commands Worth Using!

[Nosto]

Hai!

Command line or steam launch commands can be added to the game.

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CommandLineArguments.html

I am in the process of figuring out what we can use and what it does. I have worked with the unreal engine (not build 3 thou) and I have some idea of its workings.

So far you can do this:

Rendering

WINDOWED – Set game to run in windowed mode.

So your line looks like this: E:\Steam\steamapps\common\transformers war for cybertron\Binaries TWFC.exe -WINDOWED

=OR=

In steam just add -WINDOWED in the properties -> launch options for the game

These should work in conjunction with window mode. I haven't tested them all fully yet, and I'm not even sure they work.

Here are a few that I find interesting.......

FPS= - set the frames per second for benchmarking.

(window position on screen)
# WindowPosX= - Set the horizontal position of the game window on the screen.
# WindowPosY= - Set the vertical position of the game window on the screen.

(This should be setting the game window's size for example 800x600)
# ResX= - Set horizontal resolution for game window.
# ResY= - Set vertical resolution for game window.

( I think this one is for full screen, for the purpose of centering the image on the monitor)(not sure)
# PosX= - Set the horizontal position of the game window on the screen.
# PosY= - Set the vertical position of the game window on the screen.


I hope this helps, sadly I have to go out of town today and can't test this better till Monday.

Please see what you can figure out!

[zhandao]

I can confirm that -windowed works. However, it does the same thing as the in-game fullscreen/windowed option. Meaning no borderless window function, which is what I'd like.

I wonder if these commands would help anybody who is getting low framerate, though:

# SM2 – Force shader model 2 rendering path even on shader model 3 hardware.
# SM3 – Force the use of shader model 3.
# SM4 – Force use of DirectX 10 if available.

Edit: I tried using PosX and PosY to move the window around so that it would "seem" borderless, but the window isn't permitted to move any higher than the menu bar.

[Nosto]

Yeah.

Well I know there is an in-game for windowed, but my point was that by doing via launch commands, they kinda equal the console commands. Access to the console may help us. I'm going to test out the FPS one. I have a Quad core, 4gb ram, and a BFG 260. Pretty sure I can do something ludicrous.

This may solve play issues for everyone. Is my vain dream!

P.S. zhandao, thanks for posting and testing.

[h0rnytoad1]

how can we tell the game to skip loading the videos or just load the last saved game directly to continue where we were ?

[Baugh]

http://forums.techarena.in/video-games/1349421.htm

reddevil's post

[h0rnytoad1]

Thanks Baugh.

Requoting reddevil6 here for future use.

Re: Transformers: War for Cybertron: How to remove startup videos
Just follow the steps that are given below to remove startup videos and logos from Transformers: War for Cybertron and to get directly to the main menu when the game loads:

Go to the drive where the game is installed.

You will have to get to the folder called movies. They path will be generally C:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\transformers war for cybertron\trans game\movies

There, you will see some files that have to be renames as follows:

FMV_intro_PC.bik to FMV_intro_PC.bik.bak
Logo_Activision.bik to Logo_Activision.bik.bak
Logo_Activision_PC.bik to Logo_Activision_PC.bik.back
Logo_Hasbro_PC.bik to Logo_Hasbro_PC.bik.bak
Logo_HighMoon_PC.bik to Logo HighMoon_PC.bik.bak
TF_InitialStartup.bik to TF_InitialStartup.bik.bak

[NoahTheT-Former]

If I remember right, all I did before was rename the movies folder. The game can start up without it.

[h0rnytoad1]

If I remember right, all I did before was rename the movies folder. The game can start up without it.

you'd loose all the other movies to, so leave the folder as is, just rename the logo ones.

now if i could find a command to load up the savegame with a desktop shortcut that'd be all good to jump back into the action !