Launch Options: Kill Intro Videos (and more)

[Malachi]

• Start Steam.
• Right-click on Team Fortress 2.
• Select Properties.
• In the General tab, clidk Set Launch Options.

In the launch options window that pops up, put:

-novid

Done!


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What else can you do? Here are a few options.

• -dxlevel 80 --- force your DirectX level to 8.0 for faster video (useful on old video cards)
• -fullscreen or -full --- force Full Screen mode
• -startwindowed --- force windowed mode
• -autoconfig --- put this in to reset all settings, then take it out after running the game

You can also set the heapsize (depending on how much ram you have), but I haven't seen this do anything:

• -heapsize 524288 --- 1Gb of memory
• -heapsize 1024000 --- 2Gb
• -heapsize 1548288 --- 3Gb
• -heapsize 2048000 --- 4Gb

[Soulwynd]

I use:

-novid -console -dev -window -noborder

[Malachi]

I use:

-novid -console -dev -window -noborder

I can guess what window and noborder might do, but what about dev?

[Nut]

dev is like typing developer 1 in console.

-g15 is another one I use but I can't remember what it does or find a link to it lolz.

I've also read that you don't want to use a heapsize greater than 1/2 your total memory.

[Soulwynd]

Perhaps enables a g15 module?

And the -dev is just enabling developer mode, like Nut has said. It shows debug messages on the top left side of your window, here's an example:


I leave it on mostly to know when I'm stuck somewhere. It shows something like "Client stuck on object id xxxx"

I use:

-novid -console -dev -window -noborder

I can guess what window and noborder might do, but what about dev?

-window -noborder creates a 'fake fullscreen' mode. I have two monitors and that helps a lot with alt-tabbing, plus it looks better than just windowed mode.

I've also read that you don't want to use a heapsize greater than 1/2 your total memory.

Heapsize is just the caching memory for maps and objects. It doesn't include the working memory the game needs. I haven't changed mine and I suspect the default is 512mb.

[Nut]

I didn't change mine either, I had a crash if I tried.  I can't remember where I read that, or if it is even valid anymore/