OPENRA(6)

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🎀 openra — Games Manual energy, but make it iconic 🎀

okay so bestie, this page lives in the Games Manual section and its whole identifier is OPENRA(6) — but like, don't worry about that part, the fun stuff is below 💖

✨ NAME ✨

openra — an Open Source modernization of the early 2D Command & Conquer games. yes, the whole thing. we're bringing the classics back and making them serve 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

openra [Game.Mod=ra]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

openra starts the game. that's it. that's the description. literally the main character move of all main character moves 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

no cap, this list is long, but every single one is here. pace yourself, hydrate, and read them all 🫶

🔥 Debug 💀

Debug.PerfText=False — display average FPS plus the tick/render times. numbers on screen, very demure, very mindful ✨
Debug.PerfGraph=False — display a graph with various profiling traces
Debug.Samples=25 — the number of samples to average over when calculating tick and render times
Debug.CheckVersion=True — check whether a newer version is available online 🦋
Debug.SendSystemInformation=True — allow the collection of anonymous data like Operating System, .NET runtime, OpenGL version and language settings
Debug.SystemInformationVersionPrompt=0 — version of sysinfo that the player last opted in or out of
Debug.UUID=54e48e42-cfb8-4923-bae4-fbc01fe93637 — the sysinfo anonymous user identifier
Debug.DisplayDeveloperSettings=False — enable hidden developer settings in the Advanced settings tab 🙈
Debug.BotDebug=False — display bot debug messages in the game chat
Debug.LuaDebug=False — display Lua debug messages in the game chat
Debug.EnableDebugCommandsInReplays=False — enable the chat field during replays so you can use console commands
Debug.LongTickThresholdMs=1 — the amount of time required for triggering perf.log output
Debug.SyncCheckUnsyncedCode=False — throw an exception if the world sync hash changes while evaluating user input
Debug.SyncCheckBotModuleCode=False — throw an exception if the world sync hash changes while evaluating BotModules
Debug.StrictActivityChecking=False — throw an exception if an actor activity is ticked after it's been marked as completed

🧚 Game 🌈

Game.AuthProfile=player.oraid — filename of the authentication profile to use

⭐ Graphics 👑

Graphics.Mode=PseudoFullscreen — this one can be set to Windowed, Fullscreen or PseudoFullscreen
Graphics.FullscreenSize=0,0 — screen resolution in fullscreen mode
Graphics.WindowedSize=1024,768 — screen resolution in windowed mode
Graphics.CapFramerate=True — add a frame rate limiter. it is recommended to not disable this 🫶
Graphics.MaxFramerate=60 — at which frames per second to cap the framerate
Graphics.DisableWindowsDPIScaling=True — disable high resolution DPI scaling on Windows operating systems
Graphics.DisableWindowsRenderThread=True — disable the separate OpenGL render thread on Windows operating systems

🍓 Launch 🚀

Launch.Connect= — connect to the following server given as IP:PORT on startup
Launch.URI= — connect to the unified resource identifier openra://IP:PORT on startup
Launch.Replay= — automatically start playing the given replay file
Launch.Benchmark=False — dump performance data into cpu.csv and render.csv in the logs folder

💜 Player 💖

Player.Name=Newbie — sets the player nickname for in-game and IRC chat

🌸 Server 🎀

Server.Name=OpenRAGame — sets the server name
Server.ListenPort=1234 — sets the internal port
Server.AdvertiseOnline=True — reports the game to the master server list
Server.Password= — locks the game with a password 🔒
Server.DiscoverNatDevices=False — allow users to enable NAT discovery for external IP detection and automatic port forwarding
Server.NatDiscoveryTimeout=1000 — time in milliseconds to search for UPnP enabled NAT devices
Server.Map= — starts the game with a default map. input as hash that can be obtained by the utility
Server.Ban= — takes a comma separated list of IP addresses that are not allowed to join 💀
Server.RequireAuthentication=False — for dedicated servers only, allow anonymous clients to join
Server.ProfileIDWhitelist= — for dedicated servers only, if non-empty, only allow authenticated players with these profile IDs to join
Server.ProfileIDBlacklist= — for dedicated servers only, if non-empty, always reject players with these user IDs from joining
Server.EnableSingleplayer=False — for dedicated servers only, controls whether a game can be started with just one human player in the lobby
Server.QueryMapRepository=True — query map information from the Resource Center if they aren't available locally
Server.EnableSyncReports=False — enable client-side report generation to help debug desync errors

🦋 FILES 🦋

Settings are stored in the ~/.openra user folder. that's where all your little settings go to live their best life 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

Known issues are tracked at http://bugs.openra.net — go check, iykyk 🔥

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie ✨ it came from the Games Manual section, it's identified as OPENRA(6), and that's the vibe check passed — periodt 💅🎀

📦 where this page comes from

nixos 26.05: openra_2019-bleed 8ee1102
💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on 2026-11-06: a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms