Useful Homeworld Technical Stuff

Improving Homeworld & Cataclysm Doing (Updated Again) 
 
    This report has been tested with Homeworld and Homeworld Cataclysm. Will note that this information is not pertinent to Homeworld 2 . 
 
    Homeworld and Cataclysm were developed a long moment ago, when computer systems were less powerful. As a end result neither tactic makes full use of up to the minute PCs. There is a sense to let them liking advantage of more influential computers. There are also a some tweaks that can procure them more responsive. To find pleasant advantage of these features you call to add commandline options to a shortcut. These are: 
 
    -heap <number> 
    This changes the amount of memory (in bytes) that the game can access. I'm not reliable what it is close to dereliction, but it's not ever after enough. Slow-downs and/or crashes time after time surface when using intensive maps and MODs, match in compatibility procedure or just playing with massive fleets. My benchmark changes the plenty allocation to 1Gb, which is half of my material RAM, and gave me unsullied lag-free flirt at 8x make haste with my Cataclysm MOD in the most tough maps. If you possess less recollection you should swap the number. My tests set forward that 256Mb should be a fair amount. Decide how much you want to allocate and then exigency execrate the google calculator to figure free how profuse bytes that equals. 
 
    -enableSSE 
    This allows the match to use a CPU feature called SSE if it is available. 
 
    -enable3DNow 
    This allows the game to function an AMD CPU feature called 3DNow if it is available. 
 
    -triple 
    This ostensibly prevents the wild flickering that every so often occurs on the beginning undecided plucky menus. 
 
    -disableAVI 
    This bypasses the startup videos so that the game opens even into the main menu. 
 
    It's fair easy to instal this up. My example is in behalf of Cataclysm, but it's much the same for Homeworld. Undertake to your Cataclysm folder and single out the "Cataclysm.exe" file. Precise click it and settle upon "Conceive Shortcut" from the menu that appears. A hip rank will turn up called "Shortcut to Cataclysm". Normal click it and opt "Properties" from the menu that appears. In the window that appears there is a competition called "Aim". Depending on where you've installed the pastime, this resolve decipher something like: 
    Jus civile 'civil law': 
 
    "C:\Sierra\Cataclysm\cataclysm.exe" 
 
    Making unshakable you dont variation the end, you should things being what they are add the options. It should then look over something like: 
    Pandect: 
 
    "C:\Sierra\Cataclysm\cataclysm.exe" -triple -enable3DNow -heap 1073741824 -enableSSE -disableAVI 
 
    Click "OK" and you're done. Double clicking the "Shortcut to Cataclysm" file inclination start the plan with the options running. You can touch and/or rename this information as you desire and it will quietly work. 
 
    If you're using Homeworld the syntax is marginally different. Cataclysm uses a hyphen to single out command line options (eg -disableAVI) while Homeworld uses a cheeky slash instead (eg /disableAVI). For that reason it should review something like: 
 
    Jus divinum 'divine law': 
 
    "C:\Sierra\Homeworld\homeworld.exe" /triple /enable3DNow /heap 1073741824 /enableSSE /disableAVI