IN ORDER TO ADD A COMMAND-LINE PARAMETER, DO THE FOLLOWING:
 
-Go to your Windows menu (as described above).
-Select Run.
-In the Run box, enter the program's executable file, including what folder
it's in on your hard drive, followed by a command line parameter.
 
For example, if you have Homeworld installed on your C: drive as C:\Homeworld,
enter the following in the Run box:
 
C:\Homeworld\homeworld.exe /parameter
 
 
Code: Effect:
/debug Enable debug mode
/noBG Disable galaxy backgrounds
/noCompPlayer Disable default CPU players
/notactics Disable tactics
/noretreat Disables retreat tactics
/disableAVI Disable FMV sequences
/nodebugInt Disable int 3 after fatal error
/heap Set global memory heap
/prepath Set path to search for opening files
/CDpath Set path to CD-ROM
/freemouse Press F11 to toggle free mouse movement on/off
/ignoreBigfiles Don’t use anything from big files
/logFileLoads Create log of data files loaded
/disableKatmai Don’t use KNI even if support is detected
/forceKatmai Use KNI even if not available
/noSound Sound effects off
/noSpeech All speech off
/reverseStereo Swap left and right audio channels
/waveout Mixer writes to waveout
/dsound Mixer writes to DirectSound driver
/nofilter Bilinear filtering of textures off
/nosmooth Polygonal smoothing off
/nilTexture Textures off
/noFETextures Front-end textures off
/stipple Stipple alpha software renderer on
/noShowDamage Ship damage effects off
/sw Reset rendering system to default configuration at startup
/fullscreen Full-screen display with software renderer
/window Display in a window
/noBorder No border on window
/640 640x480 display
/800 800x600 display
/1024 1024x768 display
/1280 1280x1024 display
/1600 1600x1200 display
/d16 16-bit colors
/d24 24-bit colors
/d32 32-bit colors
/truecolor Try 24-bit video modes before 15/16 bit
/slowBlits Use slow screen blits
/device Select rGL device by name (sw, fx, d3d)
/gl Select default OpenGL
/d3d Select D3D
/nohint OpenGL perspective hints off
/noPause Alt+Tab pause off
/noMinimize Alt+Tab minimize off
/dockLines Show dock lines
/gunLines Show gun lines
/lightLines Show light lines in debug mode
/boxes Render bounding bowties on ships
/textFeedback Text feedback in game commands on
/aiplayerLog AI player logging on
/determCompPlayer CPU players deterministic
/gatherstats Stat gathering on
/captaincyLogOff Captaincy log file off
/captaincyLogOn Captaincy log file on
/logOff Network logging file off
/logOn Network logging file on
/logOnVerbose Verbose network logging file on
/statLogOn Generate game stats log file
/intOnSync Generate Int 3 when a sync error occurs
/debugSync Frequent autosaves, packets recorded
/forceLAN LAN play enabled (regardless of version)
/testNIS NIS testing mode using [nisFile] enabled
/testNISScript NIS testing mode using [scriptFile] enabled
/demorecord Record demo
/demoplay Play a demo
/packetRecord Record packets in a multiplayer game
/packetPlay Play back packet recording
/disablePacking Packed textures off
/smCentreCamera SM world plane at 0,0,0 instead of the camera
/closeCaptioned Closed captioning

CM,
 
Thanks,
 
>> /disableAVI Disable FMV sequences
 
I now have Homeworld running on an IBM ThinkPad 770X with a Voodoo3 2000 PCI card in the Docking Station.
 
And... it... is... slow...