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Welcome to the EDGE-Classic wiki! Here you can find information on running the game, as well as documents on the COAL, DDF, Lua, and RTS systems that EDGE-Classic uses to leverage its advanced features.

On the first run of EDGE-Classic, a series of folders will be created (for storing savegames, screenshots, cache etc). They will be created in the user's home directory, and the location of this directory is system-dependent. If you open the in-game console and type the command "browse", it will open a system file explorer in this directory.

If you would prefer EDGE-Classic to instead store all the information in the same place as the edge-classic.exe, then you can run it with the "-portable" command-line parameter. Running this command will enable portable mode for all subsequent launches. To revert to non-portable mode, delete the "edge-classic.cfg" that is co-located with edge-classic.exe.

Assuming that you don't have a graphical launcher (such as Doom P.A.L, by our very own Lobo), the most basic invocation of EDGE-Classic from the command line is:

edge-classic.exe -iwad path/to/game/iwad

Where the IWAD file is DOOM.WAD, DOOM2.WAD, or any other IWAD supported by EDGE-Classic. If the -iwad parameter is not supplied, EDGE-Classic will check locations defined by the DOOMWADDIR and DOOMWADPATH environment variables (if present), then the user's home directory, and lastly the program directory. If any valid IWADs are found, the user will be presented with a dialog allowing them to select which one to launch. If none are found, the program will inform the user and exit.

If you want to run mods or additional maps,
specify those with the -file parameter, like so:

edge-classic.exe -iwad /path/to/game/iwad -file /path/to/pwad

Files can also be added to the launch order via dragggin and dropping them onto edge-classic.exe from a file explorer.

borderless - sets display mode to borderless

fullscreen - sets display mode to fullscreen

windowed - sets display mode to windowed

width <number> - sets resolution width

height <number> - sets resolution height

res <number> <number> - sets resolution (width x height)

bpp <number> - sets display depth (legacy feature, unlikely to work with modern displays)

dlights/nodlights - enable/disable dynamic lights

respawn - enemies eventually respawn after death

newnmrespawn - like respawn, but uses the 'resurrect' respawn style for monsters (versus teleporting back in)

config <path> - specific config file to use

portable - executable directory is also used as user/home directory

turbo <number> - sets turbo scale, acceptable range 10-400

nolog - disable normal logging (debug log still created)

script <path> - add a loose RTS file to the load order

file <path> - add a file to the load order

dir <path> - add a directory to the load order (file will also allow this, this is for backwards compat)

deh <path> - add a loose Dehacked file to the load order

version - display program version and quit

skill <1-5> - set skill level

deathmatch - start game in "old" deathmatch mode

altdeath - start game in "new" deathmatch mode

no_joystick - disable gamepad system

mono - set audio output to mono

stereo - set audio output to stereo

nosmoothing/smoothing - toggle linear texture scaling

hqscale/hqall - enable HQ2x scaling for paletted textures

screenshot <number> - takes screenshot every x tics, also runs game logic as fast as possible (why?)

lang <string> - selects language for use, if available in DDFLANG

game <path> - override path where base assets (edge_defs, edge_base, etc) reside

home - override path to use for logs, screenshots, config storage, etc

defs <path> - use specified EPK or folder for base definitions instead of the default

iwad <path> - add file to load order as an IWAD

loadgame <number> - load save game in slot X on startup

bots <number> - spawn in bot players

warp <map> - warp to specified map on startup

rotate_map/norotate_map - toggle automap rotation

sound/nosound - toggle sound (actually disables all audio, not just SFX)

music/nomusic - toggle music

items_respawn/noitems_respawn - toggle item respawning

mlook/nomlook - toggle mouselook

monsters/nomonsters - toggle whether or not monsters spawn

fast/nofast - toggle 'fast' monsters (nightmare speed)

kick/nokick - toggle weapon kick (still requires DDFWEAP kick stuff to actually happen)

true3d/notrue3d - toggle "true 3d" gameplay (standing on other actors, etc)

blood/noblood - toggle showing blood/death states

cheats/nocheats - toggle ability to cheat

jumping/nojumping - toggle jumping

crouching/nocrouching - toggle crouching

Also, any CVAR + a value will set the CVAR from the command line if it is editable by the user