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Graphics Settings via Console Commands

By 幽 Ghostly 霊

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幽 Ghostly 霊
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Secrets

Languages: English

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4 Jul, 2022 @ 11:00am

4 Jul @ 7:51am

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Guide Index

Overview

Model Detail

Texture detail

Shaders

Water detail

Shadow Detail

Color Correction

Antialiasing mode

Filtering mode

Wait for vertical sync

Motion Blur

Multicore Rendering

High Dynamic Range

Bloom (Not Working with HDR Turned On)

DirectX

DirectX 9.8 & 9.5 Difference

Additional Settings

Advanced Settings

Comments

Model Detail

r_rootlod "~"

2 [Low]
1 [Medium]
0 [High]

Texture detail

mat_picmip "~"

10 ; 3 [Very Low]
2 [Low]
1 [Medium]
0 [High]
-1 [Very High]
-2 ; -10 [Ultra High] (no difference from [Very High])

Shaders

mat_reducefillrate "~"

1 [Low]
0 [High]

Water detail

r_waterforcereflectentities "~" ; r_waterforceexpensive "~"

r_waterforcereflectentities 0 ; r_waterforceexpensive 0 [Simple reflections]
r_waterforcereflectentities 0 ; r_waterforceexpensive 1 [Reflect World]
r_waterforcereflectentities 1 ; r_waterforceexpensive 1 [Reflect All]

Shadow Detail

r_flashlightdepthtexture "~" ; r_shadowrendertotexture "~"

r_flashlightdepthtexture 0 ; r_shadowrendertotexture 0 [Low]
r_flashlightdepthtexture 0 ; r_shadowrendertotexture 1 [Medium]
r_flashlightdepthtexture 1 ; r_shadowrendertotexture 1 [High]

Color Correction

mat_colorcorrection "~"
0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Antialiasing mode

mat_antialias "~" ; mat_aaquality "~"

mat_antialias 0 ; mat_aaquality 0 [None]
mat_antialias 2 ; mat_aaquality 0 [2x MSAA]
mat_antialias 4 ; mat_aaquality 0 [4x MSAA]
mat_antialias 8 ; mat_aaquality 0 [8x MSAA]
mat_antialias 4 ; mat_aaquality 2 [8x CSAA]
mat_antialias 4 ; mat_aaquality 4 [16x CSAA]
mat_antialias 8 ; mat_aaquality 2 [16xQ CSAA]

Filtering mode

mat_forceaniso "~" ; mat_trilinear "~"

mat_forceaniso 0 ; mat_trilinear 0 [Bilinear]
mat_forceaniso 0 ; mat_trilinear 1 [Trilinear]
mat_forceaniso 2 ; mat_trilinear 0 [Anisotropic 2x]
mat_forceaniso 4 ; mat_trilinear 0 [Anisotropic 4x]
mat_forceaniso 8 ; mat_trilinear 0 [Anisotropic 8x]
mat_forceaniso 16 ; mat_trilinear 0 [Anisotropic 16x]

Wait for vertical sync

mat_vsync "~"
0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Motion Blur

mat_motion_blur_enabled "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Multicore Rendering

mat_queue_mode "~"

-1 [Auto]
0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]
2 [Enabled/Use all cores]

High Dynamic Range

mat_hdr_level "~"

0 [None]
1 [Bloom (if available)]
2 [Full (if available)]

Bloom (Not Working with HDR Turned On)

mat_bloomscale "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

DirectX

mat_dxlevel "~"
60 [DirectX 6]
70 [DirectX 7]
80 [DirectX 8]
81 [DirectX 8.1]
90 [DirectX 9 (Shader Model 2)]
95 [DirectX 9 (Shader Model 3)]
98 [DirectX 9Ex]

[DirectX 6] - The First Render System Used in 2004 Build of Half-Life 2
(Flashlight Works Only on Props)
(Most Likely Will Cause Crashes)

[DirectX 7] - Updated Render System
(Most Likely Will Cause Crashes)

[DirectX 8] - Added: Shadows, World Reflect Shader

[DirectX 8.1] - Smoothed Dynamic Shadows

[DirectX 9] (Shader Model 2) - Bumpmap Textures Support, HD Reflections, More Smoothed Dynamic Shadows

[DirectX 9.5] (DX9 Shader Model 3) - $lightwarptexture Support

[DirectX 9.8] (DX 9Ex) - Added GPU Particles Render)

(Not Recommended Using DX Lower Than 9 On Good PC)

DirectX 9.8 & 9.5 Difference

DirectX 9.8

DirectX 9.5

So, pretty much they are the same. Difference is depends on your hardware and on map, for me difference is around 10 frames on some maps. (AMD Radeon™ RX 480, Intel® Core™ i7-4820K, 16GB DDR3)

Additional Settings

Field Of View

fov_desired "~"

[75 - 100]

Frames Per Second Limiter

fps_max "~"

[0 - ?]

Audio Processed by CPU

snd_mix_async "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Monitor Gamma Type

mat_monitorgamma_tv_enabled "~"

0 [Monitor]
1 [TV]

Brightness

mat_monitorgamma "~"

[1.6 - 2.6]
(2.2 By Default)

Cubemap Reflections

mat_specular "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Model LOD

r_lod "~"

-1 [Detalization Depends on Distance]
0 [Always Max Detalization]

Advanced Settings

Bumpmap Textures

mat_bumpmap "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Mipmap Textures

mat_mipmaptextures "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Paralax Mapping

mat_parallaxmap "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Minecraftify

mat_showlowresimage "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Texture Filter

mat_filtertextures "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Light Maps Filter

mat_filterlightmaps "~"

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

Advanced Motion Blur Settings

mat_motion_blur_falling_intensity "0-?"

mat_motion_blur_falling_max "0-?"

mat_motion_blur_falling_min "0-?"

mat_motion_blur_percent_of_screen_max "0-?"

mat_motion_blur_rotation_intensity "0-?"

mat_motion_blur_strength "0-?"

(The above commands control the intensity of the motion blur effect)

mat_motion_blur_forward_enabled "~" (High Speed Motion Blur)

0 [Disabled]
1 [Enabled]

18 Comments

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NyanCatGamer02 4 Jul @ 6:37am

I have something to say about the water detail:

If "Reflect All" means both r_waterforce reflectentities and r_waterforce expensive are value 1 , then "Reflect World" means it only reflects the world , not the entities on it. This makes sense when you check the values after setting Reflect World , and you will see that only r_water foceexpensive has a value of 1, while the other has a value of 0 .

This means players could somehow fit in a " less expensive version of " Simple Reflections " while allowing it to reflect the entities on the map. I'm talking about the fact that what you gave off as Reflect World here is actually some kind of "Reflect Entities" in between Reflect All and Reflect World.

NyanCatGamer02 2 Jul @ 5:45am

sick man! thank you so much!