Launch Options

Unreal 2: The Awakening

10 community-verified launch options for Unreal 2: The Awakening on Steam ↗.

DeveloperEpic Games, Inc.

Released2008-03-17

EngineUnreal Engine

-sm4

Forces Shader Model 4 (DirectX 10). Significant performance improvement in UE games.

Epic Games Documentation
✅ Verified
-windowed

Run the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen

manual_curation
✅ Verified
mangohud

Proton/Wine compatibility option.

ProtonDB
-dx11

Force DirectX 11 rendering

manual_curation
✅ Verified
-dx12

Force DirectX 12 rendering

manual_curation
✅ Verified
-vulkan

Use Vulkan renderer

manual_curation
✅ Verified
-fullscreen

Force fullscreen mode on startup

manual_curation
✅ Verified
gamemode

Proton/Wine compatibility option.

ProtonDB
-USEALLAVAILABLECORES

Uses all available CPU cores in Unreal Engine games.

Epic Games Documentation
✅ Verified
-malloc=system

Use system memory allocator for better performance

Unreal Engine