I Can't Get Skipintro and Nosplash Working

[bigshot 62]

seems to have no effect for me since I still have 4 screens to wait for before game menu appears...-world=empty works fine though. Ive read other folks using -skipintro and -nosplash so I'm a bit confused why I can't get it to work correctly.

[andersson 285]

-nosplash is working for me, but it takes about the same time to load the game.

[bigshot 62]

figured out the trouble...apparently if using the steam launch options you need to NOT use a semi colon to separate each command.

So, in steam launch options you must use:

[space]-nosplash[space]-world=empty

doing it this way cut my game loading time by more than half. From approx 35 seconds now down to 14 seconds.

[panimala 25]

I don't see the point in having -world=empty though, considering Arma 3 only has one island at this point lol.

[Gunter Severloh 3949]

Gentlemen let this help you and clear up any misunderstandings about starting up the game with any parameters.

Startup parameters

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma2:_Startup_Parameters

[bigshot 62]

reason #1 - gets you to the in-game menus much faster (this is nice especially for times when you need to be ingame but dont intend on playing a mission, messing with options or server browsing, etc.)

reason #2 - what's the point of having the game loading the island twice (1x when you start the game and 1x again when you start a mission)

dunno why it does this but even if you let the game load the world at game boot, it will still load the island again the first time you run a mission during a session. So you end up wasting twice the load time.

[libben 1]

When I choose world empty, it starts to "lag" in the menu and what not.

I use -nosplash -world=empty

[soolie 189]

This works for me and I love it

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe" -nosplash -skipintro -showscripterrors -nopause -world=empty;

I tried using the code that uses a mission.sqm to launch right into the editor, but had no luck. Anyone get this working?

[MasterDon 10]

This works for me and I love it

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe" -nosplash -skipintro -showscripterrors -nopause -world=empty;

I tried using the code that uses a mission.sqm to launch right into the editor, but had no luck. Anyone get this working?

What does -nopause and do? I have an idea about -showscripterrors but what are these?

[chrisb 196]

What does -nopause and do? I have an idea about -showscripterrors but what are these?

If you 'alt-tab' out the game it doesn't pause (keeps running), whereas normally it would auto pause..

[Simas 12]

I have an idea about -showscripterrors but what are these?

-showscripterrors is enabled in Arma 3 by default. So essentially - it does nothing.

Also, I wouldn't recommend using the -world=empty as at least for me - full water scenery has high impact on performance and low menu FPS.