Console Variables

Here is a list of DOOM Retro’s console variables (CVARs). To get the value of a CVAR, type its name in the console and press ENTER. To change the value of a CVAR, type its name followed by its new value and then press ENTER. Changes to CVARs are saved in doomretro.cfg.


`alwaysrun`	`off`	Toggles you to always run instead of walk.
`am_allmapcdwallcolor`	`109`	The color of unmapped lines in the automap indicating a change in a ceiling’s height once you have a computer area map power-up (`0` to `255`).
`am_allmapfdwallcolor`	`110`	The color of unmapped lines in the automap indicating a change in a floor’s height once you have a computer area map power-up (`0` to `255`).
`am_allmapwallcolor`	`108`	The color of unmapped solid walls in the automap once you have a computer area map power-up (`0` to `255`).
`am_antialiasing`	`off`	Toggles anti-aliasing in the automap.
`am_backcolor`	`0`	The color of the automap’s background (`0` to `255`).
`am_bloodsplatcolor`	`124`	The color of blood splats in the automap when you cheat (`0` to `255`).
`am_bluedoorcolor`	`162`	The color of doors in the automap unlocked with a blue keycard or skull key (`0` to `255`).
`am_bluekeycolor`	`112`	The color of blue keycards and skull keys in the automap when you cheat (`0` to `255`).
`am_cdwallcolor`	`162`	The color of lines in the automap indicating a change in a ceiling’s height (`0` to `255`).
`am_corpsecolor`	`116`	The color of corpses in the automap when you cheat (`0` to `255`).
`am_crosshaircolor`	`4`	The color of the crosshair in the automap when follow mode is off (`0` to `255`).
`am_display`	`2`	The display used to show the external automap.
`am_external`	`off`	Toggles showing the automap on an external display.
`am_fdwallcolor`	`64`	The color of lines in the automap indicating a change in a floor’s height (`0` to `255`).
`am_followmode`	`on`	Toggles follow mode in the automap.¹
`am_grid`	`off`	Toggles the grid in the automap.
`am_gridcolor`	`6`	The color of the grid in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_gridsize`	`128×128`	The size of the grid in the automap (`width×height`).
`am_markcolor`	`89`	The color of marks in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_path`	`off`	Toggles your path in the automap.
`am_pathcolor`	`89`	The color of your path in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_playercolor`	`4`	The color of your arrow in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_playerstats`	`off`	Toggles your stats in the automap.
`am_playerstatscolor`	`4`	The color of your stats in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_reddoorcolor`	`162`	The color of doors in the automap unlocked with a red keycard or skull key (`0` to `255`).
`am_redkeycolor`	`112`	The color of red keycards and skull keys in the automap when you cheat (`0` to `255`).
`am_rotatemode`	`on`	Toggles rotate mode in the automap.
`am_teleportercolor`	`184`	The color of teleporter lines in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_thingcolor`	`112`	The color of things in the automap when you cheat (`0` to `255`).
`am_tswallcolor`	`104`	The color of lines in the automap indicating no change in height (`0` to `255`).
`am_wallcolor`	`180`	The color of solid walls in the automap (`0` to `255`).
`am_yellowdoorcolor`	`162`	The color of doors in the automap unlocked with a yellow keycard or skull key (`0` to `255`).
`am_yellowkeycolor`	`112`	The color of yellow keycards and skull keys in the automap when you cheat (`0` to `255`).
`ammo`	`50`	The amount of ammo you have for your currently equipped weapon.
`animatedstats`	`on`	Toggles animating your health, armor and ammo in the status bar and widescreen HUD when they change.
`armor`	`0%`	Your armor (`0%` to `200%`).
`armortype`	`none`	Your armor type (`none`, `green` or `blue`).
`autoaim`	`on`	Toggles vertical autoaiming as you fire your weapon while using mouselook.
`autoload`	`on`	Toggles automatically loading the last savegame when you die.²
`autosave`	`on`	Toggles automatically saving the game at the start of each map.
`autotilt`	`off`	Toggles automatically tilting your view while going up or down a flight of stairs.
`autouse`	`off`	Toggles automatically using doors and switches in front of you.
`centerweapon`	`on`	Toggles centering your weapon when fired.
`crosshair`	`none`	Toggles your crosshair (`none`, `cross`, or `dot`).
`crosshaircolor`	`112`	The color of your crosshair (`0` to `255`).
`english`	`american`	Toggles the use of American or British English (`american` or `british`).
`episode`	`1`	The currently selected DOOM episode in the menu (`1` to `6`).
`expansion`	`1`	The currently selected DOOM II expansion in the menu (`1` or `2`).
`facebackcolor`	`5`	The color of your face’s background in the status bar (`0` to `255`).
`fade`	`on`	Toggles a fading effect when transitioning between some screens.
`flashkeys`	`on`	Toggles flashing the required keycard or skull key when you try to open a locked door.
`freelook`	`off`	Toggles freely looking up and down using the mouse or a controller.
`gametime`	`00:00`	The amount of time DOOM Retro has been running.³
`groupmessages`	`on`	Toggles the grouping of identical player messages.
`health`	`100%`	Your health (`-99%` to `200%`).
`infighting`	`on`	Toggles infighting amongst monsters once you die.
`infiniteheight`	`off`	Toggles giving you and everything else in the current map infinite height.
`joy_analog`	`on`	Toggles whether movement using the controller’s thumbsticks is analog or digital.
`joy_deadzone_left`	`15%`	The dead zone of the controller’s left thumbstick (`0%` to `30%`).
`joy_deadzone_right`	`15%`	The dead zone of the controller’s right thumbstick (`0%` to `30%`).
`joy_invertyaxis`	`off`	Toggles inverting the vertical axis of the controller’s right thumbstick when you look up or down.
`joy_rumble_barrels`	`100%`	The amount the controller rumbles when you are near an exploding barrel (`0%` to `200%`).
`joy_rumble_damage`	`100%`	The amount the controller rumbles when you receive damage (`0%` to `200%`).
`joy_rumble_pickup`	`on`	Toggles rumbling the controller when you pick something up.
`joy_rumble_weapons`	`100%`	The amount the controller rumbles when you fire your weapon (`0%` to `200%`).
`joy_sensitivity_horizontal`	`64`	The horizontal sensitivity of the controller’s thumbsticks (`0` to `128`).
`joy_sensitivity_vertical`	`64`	The vertical sensitivity of the controller’s thumbsticks (`0` to `128`).
`joy_swapthumbsticks`	`off`	Toggles swapping the controller’s left and right thumbsticks.
`joy_thumbsticks`	`2`	The number of thumbsticks on the controller (`1` or `2`).
`m_acceleration`	`on`	Toggles the acceleration of mouse movement.
`m_doubleclick_use`	`off`	Toggles double-clicking a mouse button to perform the `+use` action.
`m_invertyaxis`	`off`	Toggles inverting the vertical axis of the mouse when using mouselook.
`m_novertical`	`on`	Toggles no vertical movement of the mouse.
`m_pointer`	`on`	Toggles the mouse pointer in the menu.
`m_sensitivity`	`16`	The mouse’s sensitivity (`0` to `128`).
`maptime`	`00:00`	The amount of time you have been in the current map.
`melt`	`on`	Toggles a melting effect when transitioning between some screens.
`menuspin`	`on`	Toggles spinning the player’s view in the menu’s background.
`messages`	`on`	Toggles displaying player messages at the top of the screen.
`movebob`	`75%`	The amount your view bobs as you move (`0%` to `100%`).
`negativehealth`	`on`	Toggles showing your health as less than `0%` when you die.
`obituaries`	`on`	Toggles displaying obituaries when you or monsters are killed.
`playergender`	`male`	Your gender (`male`, `female` or `other`).
`playername`	`“you”`	Your name.
`r_althud`	`off`	Toggles an alternate heads-up display when in widescreen mode.
`r_antialiasing`	`off`	Toggles anti-aliasing when the graphic detail is low.
`r_berserkeffect`	`3`	The intensity of the red effect when you have a berserk power-up and your fists equipped (`0` to `8`).
`r_blood`	`nofuzz`	The colors of the blood spilled by you and monsters (`all`, `none`, `red`, `green` or `nofuzz`).
`r_blood_melee`	`on`	Toggles spawning blood during melee attacks from monsters.
`r_bloodsplats_max`	`131,072`	The maximum number of blood splats allowed in each map (`0` to `1,048,576`).
`r_bloodsplats_total`	`0`	The total number of blood splats in the current map.³
`r_bloodsplats_translucency`	`on`	Toggles the translucency of blood splats.
`r_brightmaps`	`on`	Toggles brightmaps on some wall textures.
`r_corpses_color`	`on`	Toggles randomly colored marine corpses.
`r_corpses_gib`	`on`	Toggles some corpses gibbing when barrels or rockets explode nearby.
`r_corpses_mirrored`	`on`	Toggles randomly mirrored corpses.
`r_corpses_moreblood`	`on`	Toggles blood splats spawned around corpses at the start of each map.
`r_corpses_nudge`	`on`	Toggles corpses and the items they drop being nudged when walked over.
`r_corpses_slide`	`on`	Toggles corpses sliding when barrels or rockets explode nearby.
`r_corpses_smearblood`	`on`	Toggles corpses leaving blood splats behind as they slide.
`r_damageeffect`	`on`	Toggles the red effect when you receive damage.
`r_detail`	`high`	Toggles the graphic detail (`high` or `low`).
`r_diskicon`	`off`	Toggles showing a disk icon when loading and saving.
`r_ditheredlighting`	`on`	Toggles dithered lighting cast on all textures and sprites.
`r_fixmaperrors`	`on`	Toggles fixing many mapping errors in the official DOOM and DOOM II WADs.⁴
`r_fixspriteoffsets`	`on`	Toggles fixing sprite offsets.
`r_floatbob`	`on`	Toggles some power-ups bobbing up and down.
`r_fov`	`90`°	Your field of view (`45`° to `135`°).
`r_gamma`	`0.90`	The screen’s gamma correction level (`off`, or `0.50` to `2.0`).
`r_graduallighting`	`on`	Toggles gradual lighting under doors and crushing sectors.
`r_homindicator`	`off`	Toggles a flashing “Hall Of Mirrors” indicator.
`r_hud`	`off`	Toggles a heads-up display in widescreen mode.
`r_hud_translucency`	`on`	Toggles the translucency of the heads-up display in widescreen mode.
`r_linearskies`	`off`	Toggles horizontally linear skies.
`r_liquid_bob`	`on`	Toggles the bobbing of liquid sectors.
`r_liquid_bobsprites`	`on`	Toggles the bobbing of sprites in liquid sectors.
`r_liquid_clipsprites`	`on`	Toggles clipping the bottom of sprites in liquid sectors.
`r_liquid_current`	`on`	Toggles a slight current being applied to liquid sectors.
`r_liquid_lowerview`	`on`	Toggles lowering your view when you are in a liquid sector.
`r_liquid_swirl`	`on`	Toggles the swirl of liquid sectors.
`r_lowpixelsize`	`2×2`	The size of each pixel when the graphic detail is low (`width×height`).
`r_mirroredweapons`	`off`	Toggles randomly mirroring the weapons dropped by monsters.
`r_pickupeffect`	`on`	Toggles the gold effect when you pick something up.
`r_playersprites`	`on`	Toggles showing your weapon.
`r_radsuiteffect`	`on`	Toggles the green effect while you wear a radiation shielding suit power-up.
`r_randomstartframes`	`on`	Toggles randomizing the start frames of certain sprites.
`r_rockettrails`	`on`	Toggles the trail of smoke behind rockets fired by you and cyberdemons.
`r_rockettrails_translucency`	`on`	Toggles the translucency of the trail of smoke behind rockets fired by you and cyberdemons.
`r_saturation`	`100%`	The saturation of the colors on the screen (`0%` to `200%`).
`r_screensize`	`7`	The screen size (`0` to `8`).
`r_shadows`	`on`	Toggles sprites casting shadows.
`r_shadows_translucency`	`on`	Toggles the translucency of shadows cast by sprites.
`r_shake_barrels`	`on`	Toggles shaking your view when you are near an exploding barrel.
`r_shake_berserk`	`on`	Toggles shaking your view when you have a berserk power-up and punch something.
`r_shake_damage`	`50%`	The amount your view shakes when you receive damage (`0%` to `100%`).
`r_sprites_translucency`	`on`	Toggles the translucency of certain sprites.
`r_textures`	`on`	Toggles showing all textures.
`r_textures_translucency`	`on`	Toggles the translucency of certain BOOM-compatible wall textures.
`s_channels`	`32`	The number of sound effects that can be played at the same time (`8` to `64`).
`s_lowermenumusic`	`on`	Toggles lowering the music’s volume in the menu and console.
`s_musicinbackground`	`off`	Toggles continuing to play music in the background when DOOM Retro’s window loses focus.
`s_musicvolume`	`100%`	The volume level of music (`0%` to `100%`).
`s_randommusic`	`off`	Toggles randomizing the music for each map.
`s_randompitch`	`off`	Toggles randomizing the pitch of sound effects made by monsters.
`s_sfxvolume`	`100%`	The volume level of sound effects (`0%` to `100%`).
`s_stereo`	`on`	Toggles playing sound effects in mono or stereo.
`savegame`	`1`	The currently selected savegame in the menu (`1` to `8`).
`secretmessages`	`on`	Toggles displaying a message when you find a secret.
`skilllevel`	`3`	The currently selected skill level in the menu (`1` to `5`).
`stillbob`	`0%`	The amount your view and weapon bob up and down when you stand still (`0%` to `100%`).
`sucktime`	`1`	The amount of time you must complete a map before you “SUCK” (`off`, or `1` to `24` hours).
`tossdrop`	`on`	Toggles tossing items dropped by monsters when they die.
`turbo`	`100%`	The speed you move (`10%` to `400%`).
`units`	`imperial`	The units used by certain stats (`imperial` or `metric`).
`version`	`5.3`	DOOM Retro’s version.³
`vid_borderlesswindow`	`on`	Toggles using a borderless window when fullscreen.
`vid_capfps`	`200`	The number of frames at which to cap the framerate (`off`, or `35` to `1,000`). There is no interpolation between frames when this CVAR is `35`.
`vid_display`	`1`	The display used to play DOOM Retro on.
`vid_fullscreen`	`on`	Toggles between fullscreen and a window.
`vid_motionblur`	`0%`	The amount of motion blur when you turn quickly (`0%` to `100%`).
`vid_pillarboxes`	`off`	Toggles using the pillarboxes either side of the screen for certain effects when not in widescreen mode.
`vid_scaleapi`	`“direct3d9”`	The API used to scale every frame (`“direct3d9”`, `“direct3d11”`, `“opengl”` or `“software”`).
`vid_scalefilter`	`“nearest_linear”`	The filter applied when scaling every frame (`“nearest”`, `“linear”` or `“nearest_linear”`).
`vid_screenresolution`	`desktop`	The screen’s resolution when fullscreen (`desktop` or `width×height`).
`vid_showfps`	`off`	Toggles showing the number of frames per second.⁵
`vid_vsync`	`off`	Toggles vertical sync with the display’s refresh rate (`on`, `off` or `adaptive`).
`vid_widescreen`	`off`	Toggles widescreen mode.
`vid_windowpos`	`centered`	The position of the window on the desktop (`centered` or `(x,y)`).
`vid_windowsize`	`854×480`	The size of the window on the desktop (`width×height`).
`wad`	`“”`	The last WAD to be opened by the WAD launcher.³
`wadfolder`	`“C:\”`	The folder the currently loaded WAD is in.
`warninglevel`	`1`	The console’s warning level (`0`, `1` or `2`).
`weapon`	`pistol`	Your currently equipped weapon (`fists`, `chainsaw`, `pistol`, `shotgun`, [`supershotgun`], `chaingun`, `rocketlauncher`, [`plasmarifle`] or [`BFG9000`]).
`weaponbob`	`75%`	The amount your weapon bobs up and down as you move (`0%` to `100%`).
`weaponbounce`	`on`	Toggles the bounce of your weapon when you land after a fall.
`weaponrecoil`	`off`	Toggles the recoil of your weapon when you fire it.

¹This CVAR is reset to its default at the start of each map.
²This CVAR has no effect while the pistolstart CCMD is used.
³This CVAR is read-only.
⁴Changing this CVAR won’t be effective until the next map.
⁵This CVAR is reset to its default during startup.

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