For shooter players, weapon’s are one of the most critical ingame elements. CS:GO is no exception, as players use different weapons in various situations to get success. But is not enough to choose the right rifle; you also need to set up your csgo crosshair settings correctly, doing this will provide a big advantage over your opponents.

In CS:GO, you can customize your crosshair in several different ways:

Settings
Console / Config
Crosshair change maps
All options have their advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we will cover the pros and cons of every option.

How to Change Your Crosshair via Settings
The easiest way to customize your crosshair is to do it via settings. Developers allow you to change your sight with various colors, sizes, dynamic styles, etc. Follow this path to find it:

- Open CS:GO
- Choose Game Settings
- Choose Crosshair

You can upgrade your crosshair with various different features and see the result in the preview window above the settings. You can change the preview map and share or import your new crosshair. It’s easy to customize via settings:

Crosshair Style - choose one of the five different crosshairs presets with predefined options by developers.
Center Dot - the small dot in the center of sight, which helps someone to aim.
Length - the indicator of the length of your crosshair, from 0.1 (small) to 10 (big).
Thickness - the index of how wide your sight will be, from 0.1 (slim) to 6 (very wide).
Gap - with this feature, you can choose how close the sightlines will be to each other. Score -5 (very close) and 5 (far away).
Outline - the black outline around the crosshair. You can turn it on or off, and choose via the index from 0 (slim) to 3 (wide).
Red/Green/Blue - color indexes, play with these features to find the best color for you. Changing from 0 to 250.
Alpha - this is the index of your crosshair transparency, you can turn it on or off. Change the alpha from 0 (invisible) to 255 (clearly seen).
Split Distance - with this indicator, you can adjust the dynamic sight magnification. It starts from 0 (minimal) to 16 (very big).
Inner Split Alpha - with this parameter, you can change the transparency of the inner part of your dynamic crosshair. It starts from 0 (invisible) to 1 (clearly seen).
Outer Split Alpha - with this parameter, you can change the transparency of the outer part of your dynamic crosshair. It starts from 0 (invisible) to 1 (clearly seen).
Split Size Ratio - options that allow you to change the split size between the inner and outer parts of your dynamic crosshair. It starts from 0 (without split) to 1 (max of the split size).
T Style - choose the crosshair’s terrorist-style, it will delete the top line of the sight.
Displayed Weapon Gap - with this feature, your crosshair will be dynamic based on the weapon which you are currently using.
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Change Crosshair via Console and CFG
For people who want to deeply customize their in-game settings, CS:GO has a developer console and cfg files. The console enables the possibility to change a large number of settings, including sight adjustment. To use the console, press ~ to open it; if nothing happens after pressing, activate the console through the game settings.

Choose the Game Settings and select yes in the section Enable Developer Console.

We have prepared several commands to help you understand the basic idea of this option. If you want to find all of CS:GO crosshair console commands visit our powerful guide Full CS:GO Console Commands List.

CS:GO Crosshair Commands:
cl_crosshairstyle 1 - the static default style
cl_crosshairstyle 3 - the classic crosshair with the dynamic feature
cl_crosshaircolor 0 - red
cl_crosshairsize 0.5 - size of the crosshair
cl_crosshairgap 1 - size of the central gap. Add your own value to make it bigger or even smaller
cl_crosshairdot 1 - for the middle of the crosshair. With this command and cl_crosshairsize 0, there will be a crosshair-dot on the screen

Another way to change the sight is to add specific commands to the game file config. The instruction is here:

Create a txt file
Add console commands to your txt file
Save your txt file as autoexec.cfg
Save .cfg files to your folder
Program Files\Steam\userdata[your Steam ID]\730\local\cfg\
or in some cases -

Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\cfg\
Find out more information about config files and autoexe.cfg in our simple guide How to create CFG in CS:GO.

IMPORTANT: All console commands can be written in .cfg files, the only difference you should take into account is that the commands end with ; in the console, but there is no such symbol in a configuration file.

Here’s an example of the difference between console and cfg commands:

Console command cl_crosshairstyle 1
CFG command cl_crosshairstyle “1”
Config of a Professional Player (Astralis - Xyp9x):
cl_crosshairalpha “200”;
cl_crosshaircolor “1”;
cl_crosshaircolor_b “50”;
cl_crosshaircolor_r “250”;
cl_crosshaircolor_g “250”;
cl_crosshairdot “0”;
cl_crosshair_t “0”;
cl_crosshairgap “-1”;