What are CS2 launch options and how can they help me? CS2 launch options are the parameters that your game launch with, that allow you to take advantages of some of the built in commands that CS2 use. Any commands that are in your launch options will be applied to CS2 every time its launched with them.
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Properties
General
tab you will see Launch Options
-
or +
like the examples below (list of commands and uses below)-novid
disables the video that plays after game launch-fullscreen
will launch the game in fullscreen mode-window
will launch the game in window mode-noborder
if game is launched in window mode it will have no border-console
will enable the developer console-w 1280 -h 960
will launch the game in 1280x960 resolution, change the numbers to your preferred resolution-high
launches games in highest priority+fps_max 0
launches game with no fps_max-refresh 360
sets how many times your monitor will refresh per second, change the number to your monitor refresh rate-allow_third_party_software
allows third-party software to capture CS2 (commonly used by Twitch Streamers using OBS)-autoexec nameofexec.cfg
allows you specify which autoexec you want to launch
The most commonly used CS2 launch options used by players would be, -novid
to disable the video that plays with the launch of the game, -w -h
to set their preferred resolution, -console
to enable the developer console. All of the commands are in the line below which can be copy-pasted into your launch options
-novid -w 1280 -h 960 -console -fullscreen