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   NAME
       vavoom - The most advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife source port around!

SYNOPSIS

       vavoom  [  -opengl  ] [ -d3d ] [ -particles n ] [ -surfcachesize n ] [ -nosound ] [ -no3dsound ] [ -nomusic ] [ -cddev file ] [ -openal ] [
       -nomouse ] [ -nojoy ] [ -nolan ] [ -noudp ] [ -ip ip_addr ] [ -noipx ] [ -mpath ] [ -port n ] { [ -freedoom] | [ -doom ] | [ -doom2 ]  |  [
       -tnt  ] | [ -plutonia ] | [ -heretic ] | [ -hexen ] | [ -strife ] } [ -game directory ] [ -devgame directory ] [ -devsnd sndinfo_script ] [
       -progs directory ]

DESCRIPTION

       Vavoom is a source port based on sources of Doom, Heretic, Hexen and a little bit from Quake. Supported platforms are  Windows  and  Linux.
       Vavoom has a graphical launcher (vlaunch).

Graphic Options
       -opengl
	      selects OpenGL driver

       -d3d   selects Direct3D driver

       -particles <count>
	      specifies number of particles to use, default is 2048, but you can't have less than 512 (i.e. you can't disable them)

       -surfcachesize <size>
	      specifies size of surface cache memory, in kilobytes

Sound Options
       -nosound
	      disables all sound, music and CD-Audio

       -nosfx disables sound

       -no3dsound
	      disables 3D sound, use original mode, Windows version only

       -nomusic
	      disables music

       -nocdaudio
	      disables CD music

       -cddev <file>
	      specifies CD device file, default /dev/cdrom, LINUX version only

       -openal
	      enabled OpenAL driver.

Input Options
       -nomouse disables mouse

       -nojoy disables joystick

Network Options
       -nolan disables all LAN drivers

       -noudp disables TCP/IP driver

       -ip <address>
	      specifies IP address, Windows version only

       -noipx disables IPX driver

       -mpath enables MPATH TCP/IP driver, DOS version only

       -port <port>
	      sets default LAN port

Game selection
       -freedoom look only for FreeDoom IWAD files

       -doom  look only for Doom IWAD files

       -doom2 look only for Doom 2: Hell On Earth IWAD files

       -tnt   look only for Doom TNT: Evilution IWAD files

       -plutonia
	      look only for Doom: The Plutionia Experiment IWAD files

       -heretic
	      look only for Heretic IWAD files

       -hexen look only for Hexen IWAD files

       -strife
	      look only for Strife IWAD files

Custom games and development
       -game <directory> specifies custom game.

       -devgame <directory>
	      like -game, but also sets Vavoom in development mode.

       -devsound <SNDINFO_script>
	      sets  sound  development	mode, uses given SNDINFO script, sounds and music are loaded form archive directory, which is specified in
	      script.

       -progs <directory>
	      specifies directory where to look for progs. Server progs are loaded from file svprogs.dat, client progs -  clprogs.dat.	Path  must
	      include ending slash.
		  Example: -progs progs/myprogs/

       -file <file1>[<file2>...]
	      specifies additional files.

       -iwaddir <dir1>[<dir2>...]
	      specifies additional directories where to look for IWAD files.

Debugging Options
       -debug creates a debug file basev/debug.txt with all console messages.

       -starttime <time>
	      sets start time, not in LINUX version and dedicated servers

       -rhide prints debugfile to stderr, in DOS version Sys_Error exits with call frame traceback

More Information
       http://vavoom-engine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Command_line_arguments

       /usr/share/doc/vavoom/vavoom.txt.gz

       Doom is a registered trademark of id software (http://www.idsoftware.com/).

Author
       See the copyright file on /usr/share/doc/vavoom/copyright

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