What does -noipx mean?

[MoreButternut]

so i have some games on steam like tf2 and half life 2 and someone told me that i can increase frame rate by typing -noipx in the launch options. i did it and it seemed that it went a little faster? what is ipx? what did i do when i typed in that command? please help

[Satoru]

IPX is a fairly old protocol mainly used by Novell based networks

It shouldnt really increase your framerate since ipx is more about the networkng protocol and has nothing to do with the rendering engine itself.

[MoreButternut]

but what does it do? im not very technical im just wondering if i should use or not. i mean it wont mess up my game or anything right?

[MoreButternut]

also can you tell me what -console and -novid does?

[Satoru]

-noipx just disables using the IPX protocol, which was popular back in the day but almost no one uses it anymore so it won't 'break' anything

-console enables the console (using the ~ key) so you can input command directly

[Kiya]

There is a steam support article with a list of common launch options, with a few listed for Rage as well
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947

You will also find a list of command line options for source games here https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options

[Jared McKano #savetf2-2024]

Originally posted by SergeantSma:

also can you tell me what -console and -novid does?

-novid skips the intro video whenever you boot up a Valve game and -console enables the console right of the bat, from what I'm assuming

[Zekiran]

Dude, why on earth did you just bump an *answered* 8 year old thread?