How to set your Steam Launch Options in C.S. 1.6 or CS GO:
To set your launch options perform the following:
While in Steam, select Counter-Strike , then right click “Properties” as shown in the picture below.
Now click on “Set Launch Options“…From here you can enter in a variety of launch options for Counter-Strike.
Here is the list of launch options with their in-game usage.
-noforcemaccel : Use desktop mouse acceleration settings-noforcemspd : Use desktop mouse speed settings.
-noforcemparms : Use desktop mouse buttons settings.-noaafonts : Disables Anti-Aliasing of Screen Fonts.-heapsize 262144 : 512MB System Memory-heapsize 524288 : 1GB System Memory-heapsize 1048576 : 2GB System Memory-w 640 -h 480 : 640×480-w 800 -h 600 : 800×600-w 1024 -h 768 : 1024×768-full : Forces the engine to start in fullscreen mode.-window : Forces the engine to start in windowed mode.-freq 100 : Changes the Hertz for monitors HL1 Engine. CRT 60-100 85=Common LCD 60-75 72=Common
-refresh 100 : Changes the Hertz for monitors HL2 Engine. CRT 60-100 85=Common LCD 60-75 72=Common
-soft : This enables Software hardware rendering mode.-d3d : This enables Direct3D hardware rendering mode.-gl : This enables Open GL hardware rendering mode.-nojoy : Remove joystick support, more ram free.-noipx : Disables LAN protocol.-noip : Some IP related command remove if unable to connect to servers.
-32bpp : Enables 32Bit rendering.-16bpp : Enables 16Bit rendering.-dxlevel 90 : DirectX 9-dxlevel 81 : DirectX 8.1-dxlevel 80 : DirectX 8-dxlevel 70 : DirectX 7-dxlevel 60 : DirectX 6-port 27015 : Changes your port # for the game.-console : When launching Half-Life, this will take you straight to the console.
-dev : This is for developer mode.-zone # : This allocates more memory to scripting files, like autoexec.cfg and so forth.
-game [mod’s name]: Enable Half-Life to play modification games other than to go through the menu to select them.
-safe : It start the game in safe mode disable audio etc.-autoconfig : Restores video and performance settings to default for the current hardware detected.
-condebug : Logs all console output into the console.log text file.-nocrashdialog : Suppresses some ‘memory could not be read’ unhandled errors.
-novid : When loading a game with this parameter, the intro Valve video will not play.
-toconsole : Starts the engine directly in the console, unless a map is specified with +map.
+a +r_mmx 1 : Instead of using a cfg you can launch the game with a command or a cvar in the command line.
+ex_interp 0.01 : Sets ex_interp value
