Stewie2K is one of North America’s most well-known Counter-Strike and VALORANT players.
The 25-year-old cemented himself as one of the five North American players to come back against FaZe Clan in the final of the ELEAGUE Boston CS: GO Major 2018. It’s the only CS: GO Major won by a North American squad, and with Counter-Strike 2 on the horizon and the last CS: GO Major concluded, this won’t change.
After months of ups and downs, Stewie2K retired from Counter-Strike and transferred to VALORANT in July 2022 to become a full-time content creator. But when CS2 was announced on March 22, the American shared that he was “ready to grind” again.
Below is Stewie2K’s complete list of video, mouse, crosshair, and viewmodel settings in CS2.
Stewie2K’s video settings
Monitor settings
| Resolution | 1024×768 |
| Texture Quality | 4:3 |
| Scaling Mode | Black Bars |
| HZ | 240 |
Mouse settings
| DPI | 400 |
| Sensitivity | 2.00 |
| eDPI | 800 |
| Raw Input | On |
| Hz | 1000 |
| Zoom Sensitivity | 1.1 |
| Windows Sensitivity | 6 |
| Mouse Acceleration | Off |
Video settings
| Color Mode | Computer Monitor |
| Brightness | 80 percent |
| Display Mode | Fullscreen |
| Global Shadow Quality | High |
| Model/Texture Detail | Low |
| Texture Streaming | Enabled |
| Effect Detail | High |
| Shadow Detail | High |
| Boost Player Contrast | Enabled |
| Multicore Rendering | Enabled |
| Multisampling Anti-Aliasing Mode | 8x MSAA |
| FXAA Anti-Aliasing | Disabled |
| Texture Filtering Mode | Anisotropic 8x |
| Wait for Vertical Sync | Disabled |
| Motion Blur | Disabled |
| Triple-Monitor Mode | Disabled |
| Use Uber Shaders | Enabled |
Setting Global Shadow Quality and Ambient Occlusion high is ideal while selecting most other settings low to start. Global Shadow Quality and Ambient Occlusion allow you to see enemy player shadows, helping you peek around corners safely and get a baseline for the other settings you set relatively low.
Stewie2K’s crosshair settings
Copy and paste the following text into your console and press enter to activate Stewie2K’s crosshair settings. Here’s how to open the console in CS2.
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 1; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 5; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -2; cl_crosshairsize 2.5; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 1; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1.5;
Viewmodel
- viewmodel_fov 68; viewmodel_offset_x 2.5; viewmodel_offset_y 0; viewmodel_offset_z -1.5; viewmodel_presetpos 3; cl_viewmodel_shift_left_amt 1.5; cl_viewmodel_shift_right_amt 0.75; viewmodel_recoil 0; cl_righthand 1;
CL_BOB
- cl_bob_lower_amt 5; cl_bobamt_lat 0.4; cl_bobamt_vert 0.25; cl_bobcycle 0.98;
Launch options
- -freq 240 -high -novid -d3d9ex
