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Sway
01-27-2010, 08:03 PM
Hey, all.

Quick question. I basically run TF2 with 3 different video settings. My FPS settings, for competitive play, my 720p recording settings (for when recording AVIs off demos), and finally my "omg that looks pretty" settings for when I'm just pubbing.

For numerous reasons, I end up changing my resolution on my desktop pretty often due to this. I also end up turning my graphics up or down when I switch. What I want to know, is there a way to simply "save current config" or something similar? I'd love to have 3 .cfg files, that I can just exec to get all the correct video settings for whatever I happen to be doing. I've seen plenty of autoexec.cfg files for "FPS" configs, but a large majority of the commands I have no idea what I'm looking at.

So, hopefully someone can throw me a bone. Thanks.

NeoRussia
01-27-2010, 09:44 PM
I would like to have these as well. Specifically the recording one complete with the movie HUD and everything. I've heard they exist but don't know where exactly, wondering if anybody knows.

v3locity
01-27-2010, 09:57 PM
The only idea that I can come up with is to manually create three different execs that can do everything that you need and just type in "exec cfg1" to enable it. But this is all manual so it would take a fair amount of effort. If there's another way I'd actually like to know it too, switching configs with the game up would probably be pretty useful.

tCSpyke
01-28-2010, 06:07 PM
Well, the way to not have to do it manually would be quite simple. Make all the .cfgs (i.e. comp.cfg, pub.cfg, movie.cfg) and place them in your cfg folder (obviously :P).

Afterwards, open up your autoexec.cfg and insert something like this:

//Graphics Configurations
alias comp.cfg "exec comp.cfg"
alias pub.cfg "exec pub.cfg"
alias movie.cfg "exec movie.cfg"

alias cfg_select "bind KP_END comp.cfg; bind KP_DOWNARROW pub.cfg; bind KP_PGDN movie.cfg;"

bind KP_ENTER cfg_select

That way, when you press 'Enter' on the keypad, and then either 1, 2, or 3 on the keypad, it'll load whichever cfg is bound to said key. Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I hope it helps. :)