CS:GO Configuration

This is an updateable team config with support for personal settings.

What's this?

The goal is to provide an easy and fast way to get a CS:GO team config file in place, while still being able to tweak settings personally to have a more tailored experience.

Normally, you would configure your CS:GO game using the GUI. The changes are then saved to the config.cfg file or video.txt and videodefaults.txt.

This repository provides two important files. A team.cfg, which is the main configuration file for your team. And an autoexec.cfg, which loads team.cfg before loading personal.cfg. This approach enables you to use a shared team config with personal settings.

Simply add autoexec.cfg to your game start options, so that your config.cfg file is rewritten on CS:GO start. Then adjust personal.cfg to your needs. You can Update your team.cfg by clicking update.bat.

Table of Contents

• CS:GO Configuration
  • What's this?
  • Features
  • Installation
  • How does this work?
  • How to update?
  • Personal Setup - personal.cfg
  • Console Commands
• FAQ
  • How to verify the integrity of my game files?
  • How can i reset my config to default values?
  • Where can i find the documentation for CLI options?
  • Where can i find the complete list of CS:GO console variables?
  • What about video settings?
• Contributing
• Authors
• License

Features

• autoexec.cfg start option approach
• solid base configuration file for your team: team.cfg
• support for a personal.cfg
• team.cfg is updateable using cURL via update.bat
• config.cfg file is rewritten on CS:GO start

Installation

1. Find your config folder

   You can find CS:GOs config folder under the path: <STEAM>\userdata\<YOURID>\730\local\cfg.

   • Where <STEAM> is the location of the STEAM folder on your disk, e.g. C:\Steam.
   • Where <YOURID> is the ID of your Steam account, e.g. 1234567.

   For example: C:\Steam\userdata\987654321\730\local\cfg.

2. Download - https://github.com/jakoch/csgo-config/archive/main.zip

3. Extract main.zip, then move the content of the folder csgo-config-main into your config folder.

4. Create file personal.cfg. Add your personal setting to personal.cfg. See below for an example.

5. Set CS:GO Launch Options

   Go to Steam > Library > Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (right-click) > Properties > Set Launch Options...:

   Set: -tickrate 128 -novid -nojoy -console +exec autoexec.cfg

6. Start CS:GO and your config.cfg is automatically created

   • From now on, you might pull changes to team.cfg by using update.bat

How does this work?

1. autoexec.cfg is loaded, because of the csgo start option entry.
2. the individual config files are loaded by autoexec.cfg
   • firstly, the team.cfg is loaded. Giving you a solid base configuration.
   • secondly, the personal.cfg is loaded. Enabling you to overload any prior config values set with your personal settings.
3. finally, the autoexec.cfg runs host_writeconfig to write the new config.cfg.

That's it.

How to update?

Simply run update.bat to update the team.cfg file.

It will use cURL to download the latest version of team.cfg from this Github repository.

Personal Setup - personal.cfg

To configure your buy binds: https://github.com/jessewebb/csgo-buynds

// ---------------------------
// Ident
// ---------------------------

name "johndoe"
cl_clanid "1"                       // clan ID for name decoration (Steam Group ID)

// ---------------------------
// Sensitivity
// ---------------------------
sensitivity                  "2"
zoom_sensitivity_ratio_mouse "1"

// ---------------------------
// Crosshair 
// ---------------------------


// ---------------------------
// Keyboard Binds
// ---------------------------

Console Commands

• differences - show all convars which are not at their default values
• demoui - show the demo player

FAQ

How to verify the integrity of my game files?

1. Restart your computer and launch Steam
2. Go to properties by right-clicking Steam > Library > Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (right-click) > Properties
3. Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game files... button.
4. Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.

Source: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

How can i reset my config to default values?

1. Use the following start option: -autoconfig.
2. Run game
3. Close game
4. Remove -autoconfig start option

Where can i find the documentation for CLI options?

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options

Where can i find the complete list of CS:GO console variables?

You find the official (and sadly unmaintained) list here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/List_of_CS:GO_Cvars

For a maintained list of CVars see: https://github.com/funeralchris/csgo-list-of-cvars

What about video settings?

Where can i find more information about tweaking my CS:GO and PC?

• https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1315092927
• https://www.reddit.com/r/CounterStrikeBinds/
• https://github.com/DevTechProfile/CapFrameX

Contributing

Feel free to contribute. Please submit pull requests to us.

Authors

• Jens A. Koch - Initial work - jakoch

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

MIT License, see LICENSE.md