WARZONE2100(6)

💖 warzone2100 💖 (section 6 of the manual, bestie)

okay so this is the warzone2100(6) manual page and honestly? it's giving "short but iconic." let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

warzone2100 — a 3D real time strategy game, no cap 🎮👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

warzone2100 [OPTIONS]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, this manual page documents briefly the warzone2100 command. brief but slay 💅

Warzone 2100 is a 3D science fiction real time strategy game. that's the whole vibe. sci-fi, 3D, real time, strategy, periodt 🚀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

⚠️ note bestie: in contrast to older versions, option parameters need a =, space doesn't work anymore. like, the = is not optional, she's mandatory, respect her 🙈

• --cheat — run in cheat mode. go off queen 👑
• --datadir=DIR — set the default datadir to DIR.
• --debug=FLAG — show debug for FLAG. use this several times for several flags. useful flags include wz, 3d, sound, video. all gives all of that and much more. (yes, you can stack them, she's flexible ✨)
• --debugfile=FILE — log debug output in FILE.
• --fullscreen — play in fullscreen mode. full immersion, main character energy 🌈
• --help — show help and exit.
• --mod=MOD — enable global mod MOD.
• --mod_ca=MOD — enable campaign only mod MOD.
• --mod_mp=MOD — enable multiplay only mod MOD.
• --savegame=NAME — load a saved game NAME. heads up: it needs to include the .gam extension 🫶
• --continue — continue playing the last saved game, if it exists.
• --window — play in windowed mode.
• --version — output version info and exit.
• --resolution=WIDTHxHEIGHT — run at WIDTH times HEIGHT screen resolution. this needs to be a resolution supported by your X server, so like, don't just make numbers up 💀
• --(no)shadows — toggle the shadows.
• --(no)sound — toggle the sound.
• --(no)texturecompression — toggle texture compression (default on). at least on systems where Mesa's libtxc-dxtn handles texture compression, loading is slower with it enabled. in-game FPS are also higher though. so like, trade-off city 😭
• --gfxbackend=BACKEND — change the graphics backend to BACKEND. possible backends include: opengl, opengles, vulkan, directx (Windows only). not all backend options may be available on every system, depending on OS, driver support, and whether the game was built with support. lowkey always check first 🔥

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okay so the fullscreen/window, resolution, sound, gfxbackend, and shadows settings are stored, so they only need to be specified once — or when you wanna change them. set it and forget it bestie 💖

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🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

• warzone2100 --fullscreen --resolution=800x600 — run in full screen at 800x600 screen resolution.
• warzone2100 --window --resolution=800x600 — run in a window at 800x600 screen resolution.
• warzone2100 — run the game, with the last used resolution, fullscreen/window, sound and shadow settings.
• 'warzone2100 --gfxbackend=vulkan — run using the Vulkan backend.

🍓 yes, that last one has a stray leading quote in the original and we are preserving it exactly, because facts don't change even when the vibes do. iykyk 🙈

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

see the copyright file included in the package 📜

This manual page was originally written by Linas Zvirblis 0x0007@gmail.com for the Debian project, and modified by the Warzone project. legends, both of them 🫶

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and that's the page!! source/version and date: 2026-09-05, WARZONE2100(6) — mwah, thanks for reading, go build some tanks 💜🎀🦋