Launcher - Advanced Parameters – Arma 3

This page is summary of advanced parameters available in Arma 3 Launcher.
Majority of these parameters is based on Arma 3 startup parameters.

List of parameters

Advanced

• Par - Reads startup parameters from a file.
• Check Signatures - Introduced to provide thorough test of all signatures of all loaded banks at the start game.
• CPU Count - Define number of CPUs/cores available.
• ExThreads - Option to define extra threads.
  • File operations - Use a dedicated thread for file operations (enabled when ExThreads is 1 or 3 or 5 or 7).
  • Texture loading - Use a dedicated thread for loading textures (enabled when ExThreads is 2 or 3 or 6 or 7).
  • Geometry loading - Use a dedicated thread for loading geometry data (enabled when ExThreads is greater than or equal to 4).
• Enable Hyper-Threading - Enables the use of hyper-threading CPU cores which might slightly improve performance in certain scenarios.
• Malloc - Particular allocator to be used.
• MaxMem - Memory allocation limit to number (in MegaBytes).
• MaxVRAM - Defines Video Memory allocation limit to number (in MegaBytes).
• Enable File Patching - Allow unpacked data to be loaded.
• No Logs - Don't store the log.
• World - Select a world loaded by default.
• Profile Path - Location of user-profile folder.

Client

• Server IP - Server IP to connect to.
• Server Port - Server port to connect to.
• Server Password - Server password to connect to.
• Host Session - Start a non-dedicated multiplayer host.

Host

• Server - Start as dedicated server.
• Server Port - Port to have dedicated server listen on.
• PID - File to write the server's PID (process ID) to.
• Ranking File - Generates a ranking file.
• NetLog - Enables multiplayer network traffic logging.
• Cfg - Selects the Server Basic Config file.
• Config - Selects the Server Config File.
• BEpath - Defines the path to BattlEye.
• Dedicated Server IP - Allows server process to use defined available IP address.

Author

• Buldozer - Starts Buldozer mode.
• Init Script - Runs scripting command once in the main menu.
• Do Nothing - Engine closes immediately after detecting this option.
• No Pause - Allow the game running even when its window does not have focus.
• No Sound - Disables sound output.
• No Land - Starts with no world loaded.
• Shows Script Errors - Introduced to show errors in scripts on-screen.
• Autotest - Loads automatically a series of defined missions and on error writes to a log file.
• Beta - Loads the specified beta sub-folders. Separated by semi-colons.

Compatibility

• No Context Buffers - Turns off multicore use. It slows down rendering but may resolve visual glitches.