There are several launch arguments that alter the behavior of the game when used. All launch arguments have to be entered with a hyphen either into desktop shortcut address, command line, Steam launch options, or Epic Games additional command-line arguments field.
List of known launch arguments [ ]
Argument
Description
AUTH_LOGIN
Unknown
AUTH_PASSWORD
Unknown
AUTH_TYPE
Unknown
d3d10
Forces DirectX 10 to be used (may not work)
d3d11
DX11[1] [2]
Forces DirectX 11 to be used
d3d12
DX12[2] [3]
Forces DirectX 12 to be used
-graphicsadapter=X[4]
Explicitly select video card adapter by index number
vulkan[2]
Forces Vulkan to be used
epicapp
Used when launching the game from Epic Games; the stable branch is set to Crab, experimental to CrabTest
epicenv
Used when launching the game from Epic Games
EpicPortal
When used standalone, the game will skip login to Epic Games and launch all sessions in offline mode, usage with Steam unknown
epicusername
Used when launching the game from Epic Games, set to the currently logged in user
epicuserid
Used when launching the game from Epic Games, set to the currently logged in Epic Account ID
epiclocale
Used when launching the game from Epic Games, set to the locale of the launcher
NO_EOS_OVERLAY[5]
Used when launching the game from Steam, prevents EOS overlay from appearing
NoMultiplayer
Disables all multiplayer related connections in-game by preventing the game to connect to EOS
NoSteamClient
Prevents Steam from starting when playing on Epic Games
USEALLAVAILABLECORES
Forces the game to use all CPU cores
nothreadtimeout
Disable the max waiting time of 120 seconds for the rendering threads
nosplash[6]
Disables the splash image on launch
DisableSeasonalEvents[7]
Disable Seasonal Events
Other launch arguments can be found in the Unreal Engine 4 Documentation , although they may not all be functional.
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