Anyone know what this switch does exactly?

Probably does what it implies. Seriously, it probably activates all of them. Is that in the ini? O_o

Sounds like it does what it says. In which case it's better left at 0... :nuke:

There are a bunch of debugging/testing commands in the INI that are intended for Bethesda only, from what I can tell. Some of them look very scary.

Setting it to 1 starts a new game from any of my saved games, and I'm trying to figure out if that's normal or my saves are corrupt.

It would be nice to have a comprehensive variable guide for ES4. All I've found online are bits and pieces.

most quests are by default activated, but require you to talk to someone or something similar to advance the quest to it's first stage, which is the only time you become aware that you're doing a quest and it's added to your log

the only ones i can imagine not being active are those that have conditional starting requirements (levels for deadric shrine quests, for example)

i may be very very wrong, it's just a theory

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scrap that, i read it as 'activate all quests' not 'activate all quest scripts'

yeah setting that to 1 could be catastrophic

lol...looks like the game thought it ment Quest 1 as in start a new game .