Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings

Command-Line Shortcuts
You may also start the game with the following command-line parameters:

NoStartup
Skips all cinematic sequences before the game starts.

NoTerrainSound
Turns off all terrain sounds.

Mfill
Fixes horizontal line display issues and black screen areas that may occur with some video adapter configurations.

Msync
Fixes a problem where the computer stops responding with some SoundBlaster AWE configurations.

NoMusic
Turns off all music.

NormalMouse
Replaces the custom mouse pointer with a standard mouse pointer.

NoSound
Turns off all sounds, except those played in cinematics.

800
Sets the screen resolution for the game to 800 x 600 pixels.

1024
Sets the screen resolution for the game to 1024 x 768 pixels.

1280
Sets the screen resolution for the game to 1280 x 1024 pixels.

autompsave
This will cause the game to save every 5 (or so) minutes.

Cheat mode (alternate):
Enter one of the following codes during game play to activate the corresponding cheat function.