HOWTO: Start the game with command line options
Added on 23/10/2005 @ 13:16:50
Applies to FM 2006, FM 2005,
This document describes how to run the game with command line options:
Windows
On Windows you there are two ways start the game with command line options:
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From a command prompt ('cmd' on Win2K/XP, 'command.com' on Win98/ME), open a command prompt and go to the FM06 installation folder (where fm.exe). Start the game by typing "fm.exe" (without quotes) and then add command line options after that - for example: fm.exe --windowed
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By editing the FM desktop (or start menu) shortcut: Right click the shortcut, choose "Properties". In the "Target" field, add the command line option after "fm.exe", press OK and then try run the game as normal. (Please note that you do NOT want to do this when using --reset_preferences, as unless you remove it afterwards it will keep resetting your settings to the default every time you run the game!)
Mac OS
The Mac did not used to have concept of a command line, and FM is at the moment not in a MacOX Mach-O executable format, and therefore you cannot launch it from the command line (terminal). Instead, to get a 'command line' you'll have to create a text file (it needs to be in text format and not RTF or HTML) named "command line" in the same folder as the FM application.
The format of this file is the same as the command line options for Windows - put each command line option on a a separate line, so:
<start file: command line>
--windowed
--small_screen
<end file: command line>
Will force FM into a "small screen" mode (which allows windowed mode in monitors where there is not enough desktop resolution to otherwise do so) and start up in windowed mode even if the preferences are set to full screen.
Command Line Options
Please refer to the FM2006 Command Line Options article for a full description of command line options available for FM06.
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