AOE II Expansion: The Conquerors: Command Line Parameters (268471)

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You can use command line parameters to customize the startup process for Microsoft Age of Empires II Expansion: The Conquerors and to resolve certain issues that you may encounter when you attempt to start or play the game.

Shortcuts that include these command line parameters are located in the following folder on the Age of Empires II Expansion: The Conquerors CD-ROM where cdrom is the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive.

Note: After you install Age of Empires II Expansion, the shortcuts are copied to the following folder by default where drive is the drive letter of the hard disk where Age of Empires II is installed.

To play the game normally, double-click the shortcut for the program that is installed on the Microsoft Windows desktop or on the Windows Start Menu.

For more information about Microsoft Age of Empires II Expansion: The Conquerors, please visit the following Microsoft Web site: The following table includes a list of the command line parameters that you can use to start Age of Empires II Expansion: The Conquerors.

Parameter	Description
1024	Sets the screen resolution for the game to 1,024 x 768 pixels.
1280	Sets the screen resolution for the game to 1,280 x 1,024 pixels.
800	Sets the screen resolution for the game to 800 x 600 pixels.
Autompsave	Automatically saves a multiplayer game every few minutes. Saved games are located by default in the Savegame\Multi folder.
Mfill	Attempts to fix horizontal line issues and black screen areas that can occur when you use certain video adapter configurations.
Msync	Attempts to fix an issue with some SoundBlaster AWE configurations, which can cause the computer to stop responding (hang).
NoMusic	Turns off all music.
NormalMouse	Replaces a custom mouse pointer with a standard mouse pointer.
NOSC	Turns off the detection of the Microsoft Strategic Commander game controller.
NoSound	Turns off all sounds, except the sounds that are played in cinematic sequences.
NoStartup	Skips all cinematic sequences before the game starts.
NoTerrainSound	Turns off all terrain sounds.