seta r_deluxmapping "1" //Enables bumpmapping based upon precomputed light directions.
// Text editor
pr_debugger "0" //When enabled, QC errors and debug events will enable step-by-step tracing.
// Item effects
seta r_drawflame "1" //Set to -1 to disable ALL static entities. Set to 0 to disable only wall torches and standing flame. Set to 1 for everything drawn as normal.
seta cl_nolerp "0" //Disables interpolation. If set, missiles/monsters will be show exactly what was last received, which will be jerky. Does not affect players. A value of 2 means 'interpolate only in single-player/coop'.
seta cl_deadbodyfilter "0"
seta cl_gibfilter "0"
v_powerupshell "0"
cl_r2g "0" //Uses progs/grenade.mdl instead of progs/missile.mdl when 1.
r_rocketlight "1"
cl_staticsounds "1"
seta gl_simpleitems "0"
cl_model_bobbing "0"
// client input controls
m_side "0.8"
m_forward "1"
m_yaw "0.022"
m_pitch "0.022"
sensitivity "3"
lookstrafe "0"
lookspring "0"
cl_sidespeed "400"
cl_backspeed "" //The base speed that you move backwards at. If empty, uses the value of cl_forwardspeed instead.
cl_forwardspeed "400"
cl_upspeed "400"
// Temporary entity control
r_rocketlight_colour "2.0 1.0 0.25 200" //This controls the RGB+radius values of MF_ROCKET effects.
r_brightlight_colour "2.0 1.0 0.5 400" //The red, green, blue, radius values for EF_BRIGHTLIGHT effects (unused in vanilla quake).
r_bluelight_colour "0.5 0.5 3.0 200" //The red, green, blue, radius values for EF_BLUE effects (typically used for quad-damage in quakeworld)
r_redlight_colour "3.0 0.5 0.5 200" //The red, green, blue, radius values for EF_RED effects (typically used for pentagram in quakeworld).
r_dimlight_colour "2.0 1.0 0.5 200" //The red, green, blue, radius values for EF_DIMLIGHT effects (used for quad+pent in vanilla quake).
r_muzzleflash_fade "1.5 0.75 0.375 1000" //This controls the per-second RGB+radius decay of EF_MUZZLEFLASH/svc_muzzleflash effects.
r_muzzleflash_colour "1.5 1.3 1.0 200" //This controls the initial RGB+radius of EF_MUZZLEFLASH/svc_muzzleflash effects.
r_explosionlight_fade "0.784 0.92 0.48" //This controls the per-second RGB decay values of EF_EXPLOSION effects.
r_explosionlight_colour "4.0 2.0 0.5" //This controls the initial RGB values of EF_EXPLOSION effects.
r_explosionlight "1"
cl_expsprite "0" //Display a central sprite in explosion effects. QuakeWorld typically does so, NQ mods should not (which is problematic when played with the qw protocol).
r_fb_models "0"
// Status bar settings
cl_sbaralpha "0.75" //Specifies the transparency of the status bar. Only Takes effect when cl_sbar is set to 2.
// Voice Chat
cl_voip_bitrate "3000" //For codecs with non-specific bitrates, this specifies the target bitrate to use.
cl_voip_autogain "0" //Attempts to normalize your voice levels to a standard level. Useful for lazy people, but interferes with voice activation levels.
cl_voip_noisefilter "1" //Enable the use of the noise cancelation filter.
cl_voip_micamp "2" //Amplifies your microphone when using voip.
cl_voip_ducking "0.5" //Scales game audio by this much when someone is talking to you. Does not affect your speaker volume when you speak (minimum of cl_voip_capturingvol and cl_voip_ducking is used).
cl_voip_play "1" //Enables voip playback. Value is a volume scaler.
cl_voip_showmeter "1" //Shows your speech volume above the standard hud. 0=hide, 1=show when transmitting, 2=ignore voice-activation disable
cl_voip_capturingvol "0.5" //Volume multiplier applied while capturing, to avoid your audio from being heard by others. Does not affect game volume when others speak (minimum of cl_voip_capturingvol and cl_voip_ducking is used).
cl_voip_vad_threshhold "15" //This is the threshhold for voice-activation-detection when sending voip data
cl_voip_send "0" //Sends voice-over-ip data to the server whenever it is set.
//0: only send voice if +voip is pressed.
//1: voice activation.
//2: constantly send.
//+4: Do not send to game, only to rtp sessions.
cl_voip_capturedevice ""
// Sound controls
s_device "" //This is the sound device(s) to use, in the form of driver:device.
//If desired, multiple devices can be listed in space-seperated (quoted) tokens. _s_device_opts contains any enumerated options.
//In all seriousness, use the menu to set this if you wish to keep your hair.
s_localvolume "1" //Sound level for sounds local or originating from the player such as firing and pain sounds.
s_inactive "1" //Play sound while application is inactive (ie: tabbed out). Needs a snd_restart if changed.
s_doppler_max "2" //Highest allowed doppler scale, to avoid things getting too weird.
s_doppler "0" //Enables doppler, with a multiplier for the scale.
s_bits "16"
s_numspeakers "2" //Number of hardware audio channels to use. FTE Quake supports up to 6.
s_swapstereo "0"
s_khz "48" //Sound speed, in kilohertz. Common values are 11, 22, 44, 48. Values above 1000 are explicitly in hertz.
s_mixahead "0.1" //Specifies how many seconds to prebuffer audio. Lower values give less latency, but might result in crackling. Different hardware/drivers have different tolerances, and this setting may be ignored completely where drivers are expected to provide their own tolerances.
s_ambientfade "100"
s_ambientlevel "0.3" //This controls the volume levels of automatic area-based sounds (like water or sky), and is quite annoying. If you're playing deathmatch you'll definitely want this OFF.
musicvolume "0.3" //Volume level for background music.
s_loadas8bit "0" //Downsample sounds on load as lower quality 8-bit sound, to save memory.
volume "0.7" //Volume level for game sounds (does not affect music, voice, or cinematics).
mastervolume "1" //Additional multiplier for all other sounds.
nosound "0" //Disable all sound from the engine. Cannot be overriden by configs or anything if set via the -nosound commandline argument.
// Joystick variables
joystick "0"
// input controls
in_builtinkeymap "0"
xinput_rightvibrator "0"
xinput_leftvibrator "0"
in_xinput "1" //Enables the use of xinput for controllers.
//Note that if you have a headset plugged in, that headset will be used for audio playback if no specific audio device is configured.
in_dinput "0" //Enables the use of dinput for mouse movements
m_accel "0" //Values >0 will amplify mouse movement proportional to velocity. Small values have great effect. A lot of good Quake Live players use around the 0.1-0.2 mark, but this depends on your mouse CPI and polling rate.
m_touchmajoraxis "1" //When using a touchscreen, use only the major axis for strafing.
m_slidethreshold "10" //How far your finger needs to move to be considered a slide event (touchscreens).
m_fatpressthreshold "0.2" //How fat your thumb has to be to register a fat press (touchscreens).
sv_dlURL "" //Provides clients with an external url from which they can obtain pk3s/packages from an external http server instead of having to download over udp.
// server control variables
sv_savefmt "" //Specifies the format used for the saved game.
//0=legacy.
//1=fte
//2=binary
sv_autosave "0" //Interval for autosaves, in minutes. Set to 0 to disable autosave.
sv_crypt_rcon "" //Controls whether the rcon password must be hashed or not. Hashed passwords also partially prevent replay attacks, but does NOT prevent malicious actors from reading the commands/results.
//0: completely insecure. ONLY allows plain-text passwords. Do not use.
//1: Mandatory hashing (recommended).
//Empty: Allow either, whether the password is secure or not is purely the client's responsibility/fault. Only use this for comptibility with old clients.
pr_ext_dp_qc_getsurface "" //Set to 0 to block detection of the extension
// server physics variables
seta sv_nqplayerphysics "0" //Disable player prediction and run NQ-style player physics instead. This can be used for compatibility with mods that expect exact behaviour.
// Progs variables
sv_progs "" //Specifies the filename of the gamecode to use serverside. Empty means autodetect - typically loading either progs or qwprogs depending on gamedir priority, then based upon deathmatch settings.
temp1 "0"
saved4 "0"
saved3 "0"
saved2 "0"
saved1 "0"
savedgamecfg "0"
// Particle effects
gl_part_flame "1" //Enable particle emitting from models. Mainly used for torch and flame effects.
seta r_part_classic_square "0" //Enables square particles, for the oldskool look.
seta r_part_classic_opaque "0" //Disables transparency on classic particles, for the oldskool look.
seta r_part_classic_expgrav "10" //Scaler for how fast classic explosion particles should accelerate due to gravity. 1 for like vanilla, 10 for like zquake.
seta r_part_density "1"
r_part_contentswitch "1" //Enable particle effects to change based on content (ex. water).
r_particle_tracelimit "0x7fffffff" //Number of traces to allow per frame for particle physics.
r_part_rain_quantity "1"
r_part_rain "0" //Enable particle effects to emit off of surfaces. Mainly used for weather or lava/slime effects.
r_bouncysparks "1" //Enables particle interaction with world surfaces, allowing for bouncy particles, stains, and decals.
seta r_particledesc "classic"
seta r_particlesystem "script"
// bloom
seta r_bloom "0" //Enables bloom (light bleeding from bright objects). Fractional values reduce the amount shown.
// Screen Options
cl_yieldcpu "0" //Attempt to yield between frames. This can resolve issues with certain drivers and background software, but can mean less consistant frame times. Will reduce power consumption/heat generation so should be set on laptops or similar (over-hot/battery powered) devices.
cl_idlefps "0" //This is the maximum framerate to attain while idle/paused/unfocused.
cl_maxfps "500" //Sets the maximum allowed framerate. If you're using vsync or want to uncap framerates entirely then you should probably set this to 0. Set cl_yieldcpu 0 if you're trying to benchmark.
cl_hudswap "0"
seta cl_sbar "0"
show_fps "0" //Displays the current framerate on-screen.
//0: Off.
//1: framerate average over a second.
//2: Show a frametimes graph (with additional timing info).
//-1: Normalized graph that focuses on the variation ignoring base times.
scr_fov_mode "4" //Controls what the fov cvar actually controls:
//0: largest axis (ultra-wide monitors means less height will be visible).
//1: smallest axis (ultra-wide monitors will distort at the edges).
//2: horizontal axis.
//3: vertical axis.
//4: 4:3 horizontal axis, padded for wider resolutions (for a more classic fov)
r_viewmodel_fov "" //field of vision, 1-170 degrees, standard fov is 90, nquake defaults to 108.
fov "65" //field of vision, 1-170 degrees, standard fov is 90, nquake defaults to 108.
viewsize "100"
// Realtime Lighting
r_sun_colour "0 0 0" //Specifies the colour of sunlight that appears in the form of crepuscular rays.
r_shadow_shadowmapping "1" //Enables soft shadows instead of stencil shadows.
r_shadow_realtime_dlight_shadows "1" //Allows dynamic realtime lights to cast shadows as they move.
seta r_shadow_realtime_dlight "0" //Enables the use of dynamic realtime lights, allowing explosions to use bumpmaps etc properly.
r_shadow_realtime_world_shadows "1"
seta r_shadow_realtime_world "0" //Enables the use of static/world realtime lights.
// Video config
vid_desktopsettings "0" //Ignore the values of vid_width and vid_height, and just use the same settings that are used for the desktop.
vid_displayfrequency ""
vid_height "768" //The screen height to attempt to use, in physical pixels. 0 means use desktop resolution.
vid_width "1024" //The screen width to attempt to use, in physical pixels. 0 means use desktop resolution.
vid_triplebuffer "1" //Specifies whether the hardware is forcing tripplebuffering on us, this is the number of extra page swaps required before old data has been completely overwritten.
vid_conautoscale "2" //Changes the 2d scale, including hud, console, and fonts. To specify an explicit font size, divide the desired 'point' size by 8 to get the scale. High values will be clamped to maintain at least a 320*200 virtual size.
vid_conheight "0"
vid_conwidth "0"
vid_depthbits "0" //The number of depth bits to request from the renedering context. Try 24.
vid_bpp "32" //The number of colour bits to request from the renedering context
vid_fullscreen "0"
vid_renderer "gl" //Specifies which backend is used. Values that might work are: sv (dedicated server), headless (null renderer), vk (vulkan), gl (opengl), egl (opengl es), d3d9 (direct3d 9), d3d11 (direct3d 11, with default hardware rendering), d3d11 warp (direct3d 11, with software rendering).
in_windowed_mouse "1"
vid_winthread "" //When enabled, window messages will be handled by a separate thread. This allows the game to continue rendering when Microsoft Windows blocks while resizing, etc.
vid_vsync "0"
vid_devicename "" //Specifies which video device to try to use. If blank or invalid then one will be guessed.
gl_driver "" //Specifies the graphics driver name to load. This is typically a filename. Blank for default.
// GL Renderer Options
gl_lightmap_average "0" //Determine lightmap values based upon the center of the polygon. This will give a more buggy look, quite probably.
gl_lightmap_nearest "0" //Use nearest sampling for lightmaps. This will give a more blocky look. Meaningless when gl_lightmap_average is enabled.
gl_compress "0" //Enable automatic texture compression even for textures which are not pre-compressed.
gl_picmip_other "0" //Effectively added to gl_picmip for the purposes of model textures.
gl_picmip_sprites "0" //Effectively added to gl_picmip for the purposes of sprite textures.
gl_picmip_world "0" //Effectively added to gl_picmip for the purposes of world textures.
gl_picmip2d "0" //Reduce hud/menu texture sizes by some exponential factor.
gl_picmip "0" //Reduce world/model texture sizes by some exponential factor.
gl_motionblur "0"
r_clear "1"
r_noaliasshadows "0"
r_noframegrouplerp "0"
seta r_lerpmuzzlehack "1"
gl_lerpimages "1" //Enables smoother resampling for images which are not power-of-two, when the drivers do not support non-power-of-two textures.
gl_nocolors "0" //Ignores player colours and skins, reducing texture memory usage at the cost of not knowing whether you're killing your team mates.
seta gl_affinemodels "0" //Use affine texture sampling for models. This replicates software rendering's distortions.
gl_texture_anisotropy "0" //Allows for higher quality textures on surfaces that slope away from the camera (like the floor). Set to 16 or something. Only supported with trilinear filtering.
d_lodbias "0" //Biases choice of mipmap levels. Positive values will give more blury textures, while negative values will give crisper images (but will also give some mid-surface aliasing artifacts).
seta d_mipcap "0 1000" //Specifies the range of mipmap levels to use.
r_font_linear "0"
seta gl_texturemode2d "gl_nearest" //Specifies how 2d images are sampled. format is a 3-tupple
seta gl_texturemode "ln" //Specifies how world/model textures appear. Typically 3 letters eg lln.
//First letter can be l(inear) or n(earest) and says how to sample from the mip (when downsampling).
//The middle letter can . to disable mipmaps, or l or n to describe whether to blend between mipmaps.
//The third letter says what to do when the texture is too low resolution and is thus the most noticable with low resolution textures, a n will make it look like lego, while an l will keep it smooth.
seta gl_blendsprites "0" //Specifies how sprites are blended.
//0: Alpha tested.
//1: Premultiplied blend.
//2: Additive blend.
r_lightprepass "0" //Experimental. Attempt to use a different lighting mechanism (aka: deferred lighting). Requires vid_reload to take effect.
vid_desktopgamma "0" //Apply gamma ramps upon the desktop rather than the window.
vid_srgb "0" //-1: Only the framebuffer should use sRGB colourspace, textures and colours will be assumed to be linear. This has the effect of just brightening the screen according to a gamma ramp of about 2.2 (or .45 in quake's backwards gamma terms).
//0: Off. Colour blending will be wrong, you're likely to see obvious banding.
//1: Use sRGB extensions/support to ensure that the lighting aproximately matches real-world lighting (required for PBR).
//2: Attempt to use a linear floating-point framebuffer, which should enable monitor support for HDR.
//Note that driver behaviour varies by a disturbing amount, and much of the documentation conflicts with itself (the term 'linear' is awkward when the eye's perception of linear is non-linear).
vid_multisample "0" //The number of samples to use for Multisample AntiAliasing (aka: msaa). A value of 1 explicitly disables it.
r_novis "0"
// Graphical Nicaties
gl_overbright_all "0"
gl_overbright "1"
r_deluxemapping "1" //Enables bumpmapping based upon precomputed light directions.
//0=off
//1=use if available
//2=auto-generate (if possible)
r_lodbias "0" //Biases the level-of-detail on models (for those that have lod).
r_lodscale "5" //Scales the level-of-detail reduction on models (for those that have lod).
seta r_replacemodels "md3 md2" //A list of filename extensions to attempt to use instead of mdl.
r_shadows "0" //Draw basic blob shadows underneath entities without using realtime lighting.
seta r_lightmap "0"
seta r_drawflat "0"
seta gl_load24bit "1"
r_telealpha ""
r_slimealpha ""
r_lavaalpha ""
r_wateralpha "1"
seta r_fastsky "0"
seta r_nolightdir "0"
seta r_nolerp "0"
seta r_dynamic "1" //0: no standard dlights at all.
//1: coloured dlights will be used, they may show through walls. These are not realtime things.
//2: The dlights will be forced to monochrome (this does not affect coronas/flashblends/rtlights attached to the same light).
r_temporalscenecache "" //Controls whether to generate+reuse a scene cache over multiple frames. This is generated on a separate thread to avoid any associated costs. This can significantly boost framerates on complex maps, but can also stress the gpu more (performance tradeoff that varies per map). An outdated cache may be used if the cache takes too long to build (eg: lightmap animations), which could cause the odd glitch when moving fast (but retain more consistent framerates - another tradeoff).
//0: Tranditional quake rendering.
//1: Generate+Use the scene cache.
seta r_waterwarp "1" //Enables fullscreen warp, preferably via glsl. -1 specifies to force the fov warp fallback instead which can give a smidge more performance.
r_drawviewmodel "1"
r_bloodstains "1"
gl_font "" //Specifies the font file to use. a value such as FONT:ALTFONT specifies an alternative font to be used when ^^a is used.
//When using TTF fonts, you will likely need to scale text to at least 150% - vid_conautoscale 1.5 will do this.
//TTF fonts may be loaded from your windows directory. 'gl_font cour?col=1,1,1:couri?col=0,1,0' loads eg: c:\windows\fonts\cour.ttf, and uses the italic version of courier for alternative text, with specific colour tints.
con_textfont "" //Specifies the font file to use. a value such as FONT:ALTFONT specifies an alternative font to be used when ^^a is used.
//When using TTF fonts, you will likely need to scale text to at least 150% - vid_conautoscale 1.5 will do this.
//TTF fonts may be loaded from your windows directory. 'gl_font cour?col=1,1,1:couri?col=0,1,0' loads eg: c:\windows\fonts\cour.ttf, and uses the italic version of courier for alternative text, with specific colour tints.
r_glsl_turbscale_refract "1" //Controls the strength of the underwater ripples (used by the altwater glsl code).
r_glsl_turbscale_reflect "1" //Controls the strength of the water reflection ripples (used by the altwater glsl code).
r_glsl_offsetmapping_reliefmapping "0" //Changes the paralax sampling mode to be a bit nicer, but noticably more expensive at high resolutions. r_glsl_offsetmapping must be set.
seta r_glsl_offsetmapping "0" //Enables the use of paralax mapping, adding fake depth to textures.
r_hdr_framebuffer "0" //If enabled, the map will be rendered into a high-precision image framebuffer. This avoids issues with shaders that contribute more than 1 in any single pass (like overbrights). Can also be set to the name of an image format, to force rendering to that format first - interesting formats are L8, RGB565, B10G11R11F, and others.
r_lightmap_format "" //Overrides the default texture format used for lightmaps. rgb9e5 is a good choice for HDR.
seta r_lightstylesmooth "0"
seta r_loadlit "1" //Whether to load lit files.
//0: Do not load external rgb lightmap data.
//1: Load but don't generate.
//2: Generate ldr lighting (if none found).
//3: Generate hdr lighting (if none found).
//Note that regeneration of lightmap data may be unreliable if the map was made for more advanced lighting tools.
//Deluxemap information will also be generated, as appropriate.
seta r_softwarebanding "0" //Utilise the Quake colormap in order to emulate 8bit software rendering. This results in banding as well as other artifacts that some believe adds character. Also forces nearest sampling on affected surfaces (palette indicies do not interpolate well).
// Realtime Light editing/importing
r_shadow_realtime_world_importlightentitiesfrommap "0" //Controls default loading of map-based realtime lights.
//0: Load explicit .rtlight files only.
//1: Load explicit lights then try fallback to parsing the entities lump.
//2: Load only the entities lump.
// View variables
brightness "0.0" //Brightness is how much 'white' to add to each and every pixel on the screen.
v_contrastboost "1.0" //Amplifies contrast in dark areas
contrast "1.0" //Scales colour values linearly to make your screen easier to see. Setting this to anything but 1 without hardware gamma will reduce your framerates a little.
gamma "1.0" //Controls how bright the screen is. Setting this to anything but 1 without hardware gamma requires glsl support and can noticably harm your framerate.
v_gammainverted "0" //Boolean that controls whether the gamma should be inverted (like quake) or not.
seta cl_bob "0.02" //Controls how much the camera position should bob up down as the player runs around.
seta cl_rollangle "2.0" //Controls the maximum view should tilt while strafing.
seta gl_polyblend "1" //Controls whether temporary whole-screen colour changes should be honoured or not. Change gl_cshiftpercent if you want to adjust the intensity.
//This does not affect v_cshift commands sent from the server.
cl_crossy "0"
cl_crossx "0"
crosshairsize "8"
crosshair "1"
crosshaircolor "255 255 255"
v_viewheight "0"
seta v_gunkick "1" //Controls the strength of view angle changes when firing weapons.
v_contentblend "1" //Controls the strength of underwater colour tints (gl_polyblend must be enabled).
v_cshift_lava "255 80 0 150" //The colour tint to use when burried in lava (ouchie!) (additionally scaled by v_contentblend.
v_cshift_slime "0 25 5 150" //The colour tint to use when submerged in slime (additionally scaled by v_contentblend.
v_cshift_water "130 80 50 128" //The colour tint to use when underwater (additionally scaled by v_contentblend.
v_cshift_empty "130 80 50 0" //The colour tint to use when in the open air (additionally scaled by v_contentblend.
// Filesystem
fs_cache "1"
// client operation options
cl_download_mapsrc "" //Specifies an http location prefix for map downloads. EG: "http://example.com/path/quakemaps/"
cl_nopext "0"
cl_standardmsg "0" //Disables auto colour coding in console prints.
cl_standardchat "0" //Disables auto colour coding in chat messages.
requiredownloads "1" //0=join the game before downloads have even finished (might be laggy). 1=wait for all downloads to complete before joining.
seta cl_demoreel "0" //When enabled, the engine will begin playing a demo loop on startup.
cl_playerclass ""
w_switch ""
b_switch ""
noaim ""
msg "1" //Filter console prints/messages. Only functions on QuakeWorld servers. 0=pickup messages. 1=death messages. 2=critical messages. 3=chat.
drate "3000000" //A rough measure of the bandwidth to try to use while downloading (in bytes per second).
rate "30000" //A rough measure of the bandwidth to try to use while playing. Too high a value may result in 'buffer bloat'.
cl_crypt_rcon "1" //Controls whether to send a hash instead of sending your rcon password as plain-text. Set to 1 for security, or 0 for backwards compatibility.
//Your command and any responses will still be sent as plain text.
//Instead, it is recommended to use rcon ONLY via dtls/tls/wss connections.
cfg_save_name "fte" //This is the config name that is saved by default when no argument is specified.
cfg_save_buttons "0" //If 1, saves the state of things such as +mlook or +forward to configs.
cfg_save_binds "1" //If 1, saves all key bindings to configs.
cfg_save_aliases "1" //If 1, saves aliases to configs. Note that aliases sent from servers are assumed to be server-specific and are never saved (and are forgotten on map changes, too).
cfg_save_infos "1" //If 1, saves userinfo and serverinfo to configs.
cfg_save_auto "0" //If 1, the config will automatically be saved and without prompts. If 0, you'll have to save your config manually (possibly via prompts from the quit menu).
cfg_save_all "" //If 1, cfg_save ALWAYS saves all cvars. If 0, cfg_save only ever saves archived cvars. If empty, cfg_save saves all cvars only when an explicit filename was given (ie: when not used internally via quit menu options).
