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Age of Kings Command Line Options

Make a shortcut to the game and inlcude the following at the end of the command line.

The following table lists the command line parameters youcan use to start Age of Kings.

autompsave: This will cause the game to save every 5 (or so) minutes.

NoStartup: Skips all cinematic sequences before the game starts.

800: Sets the screen resolution for the game to 800 x 600 pixels.

1024: Sets the screen resolution for the game to 1024 x 768 pixels.

1280: Sets the screen resolution for the game to 1280 x 1024 pixels.

Mfill: Fixes horizontal line display issues and black screen areas that may occur with some video adapter configurations.

NormalMouse: Replaces the custom mouse pointer with a standard mouse pointer.

NoSound: Turns off all sounds, except those played in cinematics.

NoTerrainSound: Turns off all terrain sounds.

NoMusic: Turns off all music.

systemmemory: Use System Memory instead of Video Memory

Msync: Fixes a problem where the computer stops responding with some SoundBlaster AWE configurations.

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