The Ball — Steam Launch Options
13 community-verified launch options for The Ball on Steam ↗.
DeveloperTeotl Studios
PublisherTripwire Interactive
Released2010-10-26
EngineUnreal Engine
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-sm4Forces Shader Model 4 (DirectX 10). Significant performance improvement in UE games.Epic Games Documentation✅ Verified -
-windowedRun the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreenmanual_curation✅ Verified -
mangohudProton/Wine compatibility option.ProtonDB -
-dx11Force DirectX 11 renderingmanual_curation✅ Verified -
-dx12Force DirectX 12 renderingmanual_curation✅ Verified -
-vulkanUse Vulkan renderermanual_curation✅ Verified -
-nohomedir* Add to the ; this is less than ideal as it will start you over from the beginning as it causes the game to create a new save folder.PCGamingWiki -
-fullscreenForce fullscreen mode on startupmanual_curation✅ Verified -
gamemodeProton/Wine compatibility option.ProtonDB -
-ResX=Set horizontal resolution (e.g., -ResX=1920)Unreal Engine -
-ResY=Set vertical resolution (e.g., -ResY=1080)Unreal Engine -
-USEALLAVAILABLECORESUses all available CPU cores in Unreal Engine games.Epic Games Documentation✅ Verified -
-malloc=systemUse system memory allocator for better performanceUnreal Engine