Arma 3: Launcher - Advanced Parameters

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

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.

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.

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.

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