MW2 Config Guide

A simple config guide for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Basic Things About The Config

First of all you need to understand how a config works, here are some basics :
(- Editing the config is NOT banable)
- The config is in your steam folder (Steam->Steamapps->cmon->MW2->Players)
- Config_mp.cfg is responsible for the multiplayer
- You should open it with word and then save it as cfg-file again; .txt-files can be easily converted to .cfg-files by re-naming or re-saving them.
- In "config-language" 1 means yes and 0 no, therefore cg_drawWater "1" means that your game
has animated Water while cg_drawWater "0" obviously lets your game skip those animations
- MW2 has triggers to reset your config to a default one, hacked lobbys can also modify your config. You can bypass this by setting your config to "read only"
- You can not reduce recoil or something similar because commands like "r_recoil 0" do not exist without excessive cheating. Its a dream, give it up.
- The config can make you play better but will not be near as effectiv as a wallhack or anything else you may imagine.

UPDATE:
MW2 actually got a patch which changed many values. They did it in order to prevent further modding and cheating. If you want to hack or host a modded lobby you will need to wait till it gets updated.
This means that many commands wont work anymore
I dont mean to test which commands work and which dont since the game is inactive and I dont play it anymore. Some commands will just be placebos I guess

Improving your ping

What many people dont know is that you can improve your ping in your config, the following tweaks should help you :

seta cl_maxpackets "100" (default value is 30)
- Amount of packets sent per second

seta cl_maxPing "110" (default value is 800)
-This will connect you to a server with maximum X (in this case 110) amount of ping
-I would actually recommend you to set this to 500 at least, otherwise finding lobbies will proof to be quite difficult

seta cg_ScoresPing_Interval "20" (default is 100)
- Sets the interval between pingbars on the scoreboard. 20 means more accurate measurement

seta snaps "30" (default is 20)
- Number of times to update player postions, should smooth out movement and hit registration

seta cg_ScoresPing_MaxBars "10" (default value is 4)
- Total number of latency bars. More bars = more accurate ping representation

Improving your frames per second (FPS)

So this is the most searched part for configs i guess, remember that the "r_"-commands are effecting your FPS the most. Here should be every command that could effect your FPS heavily:

- seta cg_blood "0" (default value is 1)
No blood

- seta cg_brass "0" (default value is 1)
- seta r_distortion "0" (default value is 1)
No bullet effect when you shoot , make sure to deactivate both

- seta r_dlightLimit "0" (dont know the default , sorry)
The limit of lightning effects

- seta dynEnt_active "0" (default value is 1)
Enable/disable dynamic environment, ie objects will move when shot at etc

- seta r_dof_enable "0" (default value is 1)
Dont really know how to say that but its kind of changing the way see bullets connecting to objects. They ricochet differently.

- seta r_drawSun "0" (default value is 1)
- seta r_drawWater "0" (default value is 1)
Deactivates some particular sun and water animations

- seta ragdoll_enable "0" (default value should be 1)
Your game will no longer check if dead bodies hit the ground realistically. Instead, they will just drop. Some objects like random monitors on terminal will also no longer fly through the air when shot.

- seta drawLagometer "1" (default value is 1)
Disable/enable lagometer (no longer working)

- seta r_aaSamples "16" (default value is 2)
Set the amount of anti-aliasing ; highest quality (worst performance) = 16 ; lowest quality (best performance) = 0

- seta r_distortion "0" (default value is 1)
Enable/disable distortion from weapons, explosions etc

- seta r_dof_enable "0" (default value is 1)
Enable/disable depth of field

- seta ai_corpseCount "1" (default value 16)
Amout of corspes that can drop

- seta r_glow_allowed "0" (default value is 1)
No glow effects (make sure to also cg_drawSun 0)

- seta fx_marks_ents "0" (default value is 1)
- seta fx_marks_smodels "0" (default value is 1)
Deactivates bullet marks

- seta r_texFilterAnisoMax "1" (default value is 4)
- seta r_texFilterAnisoMin "1" (default value is 1)
This will prevent the game from rendering objects when your too far away from them

- seta r_zFeather "0" (default value is 1)
Feather details

- optimal texture settings:
seta r_picmip "0"
seta r_picmip_bump "3"
seta r_picmip_manual "1"
seta r_picmip_spec "3"
seta r_picmip_water "0"
seta r_mode 800x600 //(nobody really wants to play on that resolution , just set it to your own monitor resolution, e.g. 1920x1080)
Those are the options that worked best for me but its honestly too hard to explain. You can set them up manually in the graphics options ingame but I recommend the values above.
This will turn one video setting to "Extra". You normally do not want to put it below that because anything else means that your scope, weapons and enemies in the distance will blur (heavily).

-seta r_displayRefresh "75 Hz" (default 60 Hz)
Hertz rate of your monitor, mine is 144. Check your settings and insert yours.

I guess we are done here...

Things that are nice to have / good to know

This is pretty much the random stuff section....

- seta hud_enable "1" (default value is 1)
Enable/disable your HUD. Just don't.

- seta r_fullscreen "1" (default value is 1)
Play in fullscreen/windowed mode (fullscreen is 1, windowed is 0)

- seta cg_hudDamageIconInScope "1" (default value is 1)
Shows hitreg (blood) while scoped with a sniper rifle/thermal

- seta cg_hudGrenadeIconInScope "1" (default value is 1)
Shows grenade indicator while scoped with a sniper rifle/thermal

- seta cg_chatHeight "8" (default value is 4)
Height of the chat ( 8 = 8 lines ; 0 = 0 lines = no chat )

- seta cg_chatTime "12000"
Time till the chat disapears (in ms)

- seta cg_drawBreathHint "0" (default value is 1)
- seta cg_drawMantleHint "0" (default value is 1)
No Hints

- seta cg_youInKillCamSize "1" (default value is 6)
The size of the "YOU" in a killcam

- seta cl_yawspeed "900" (default value is 140)
Good for trickshots, watch a trickshotting video/guide for better understanding

- seta r_gamma "1"
Brightness , also adjustable ingame but its more accurate here. Not that it would make any difference.

- seta cg_hudChatPosition "5 204"
- seta cg_hudChatIntermissionPosition "5 110"
These variables contain a 2D vector. The first is the number of pixels the chatbox is located from the left of the screen (so with '5', there will be 5 pixels between the left border of your screen and the chat box). The second is the number of pixels the chatbox is located from the top of the screen. The InterMissionPosition variable determines where your chatbox will move to during an 'intermission' - for example when you hit TAB to show the scorelist.

[o_O]

Hi, I've written the commands and my Texture Quality option is now on Extra. How can I put it into Low (using the config file)?

[DexaLL -]

i have to write this in a file or console ? does this game have console lol

[taylorconard2001]

wwf

[寨上蓝天]

接近鬼服了，不过还能搜索到人

[febreeze]

May I thrust you?

[(UN91)Boneless Pizza]

Hey guys, playing Mw2 on my MacBook Pro 13 inch. Campaign runs just fine, when it comes to multiplayer its just a black screen. HELP

[Stoned Garfield]

So why SHOULD I thrust you?

[Wade]

mp means multiplayer. the config.cfg is for singlepayer

[NOMASKZz]

what's the different between config_mp.fg & config.cfg?
What happen if i change commands in config.cfg?

[Anatolius]

There's no 'seta cl_maxpackets' in my cfg