Descent 2 Basic Setup

These commands can be added to the end of descent2.exe as follows 

Here's is an exapmle of my "command line" ....

D:\GAMES\DESCENT2\descent2.exe -Shortpackets -Packets 6 -Joypolled -Noredundancy



The following DOS command-line options are available in Descent 2.
Upper/lowercase is not significant.

 Network & Modem:

  -CtsRts        Enables CTS/RTS handshaking during null-modem games
  -NoNetwork     Disables network drivers
  -NoSerial      Disables serial drivers
  -Packets #     Specifies the packets per second where # is the number
                 of packets
  -Shortpackets  Turn on short packets
  -Norankings    Disable multiplayer ranking system
  -Noredunancy   Suppresses duplicate messages such as "You already have ..."

 General Options:

  -Verbose        Shows initialization steps for tech support
  -LowMem         Lower animation detail for better performance with low memory
  -NoLowMem       Force high animation detail even when low memory
  -NoMemCheck     Disables memory requirement checking
  -NoDOSCheck     Disables DOS version checking
  -NoFileCheck    Disables the file handles check
  -NoHighRes      Disables 640x480 mode for menus and movies
  -ForceVesa      Enables VESA linear frame buffering (if available)
  -Subtitles      Turn on movie subtitles (English-only)

 Input devices:

  -NoMouse       Disables mouse drivers
  -NoJoystick    Disables joystick support
  -JoyPolled     Poll joystick w/ counter.  Use for Windows, OS/2
  -JoyBios       Use the system BIOS for joystick.
  -JoyNice       Joystick poller allows interrupts to occur
  -GamePort      Use Colorado Spectrum's Notebook Gameport

 Sound & Music:

  -Volume     Sets sound volume to v, where v is between 0 and 100
  -NoSound       Turns off sound & music
  -NoMusic       Disables music; sound effects remain enabled
  -DisableSound  Completely disable sound system (also disables movies)
  -NoLoadPats    Disables patch loading for Gravis UltraSound
  -Sound22K      Use 22KHz sounds, even if machine has less than 16 MB
  -Sound11K      Use 11KHz sounds, even if machine has more than 16 MB
  -No16Bit       Disable 16-bit sound (movies only)