Counter Strike 1.6 Launch Options

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           : 640x480

-w 800 -h 600           : 800x600

-w 1024 -h 768         : 1024x768

-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