Category:Removed console variables

CVars in this category have been removed in a previous patch.

anisotropic - Anisotropic Filtering in video settings, from 1 to 16

automoveturnspeednarrow

automoveturnspeedwide

autoRangedCombat

chatLocked

CombatDeathLogRange - Defines the range in which players/mobs dying will be recorded in the combat log or not

CombatModeMaxDistance - Range for combat auto target

dbCompress - Database compression (?)

detailDoodadAlpha

displayFreeBagsSlots - Option to display free slots, now default

DistCull - Sets distance for culling of objects near farclip

doodadAnim - Toggle animated geometry

EmoteSounds - Replaced by Sound EnableEmoteSounds

EnableAmbience - replaced by Sound EnableAmbience

EnableErrorSpeech - Replaced by Sound EnableErrorSpeech

EnableGroupSpeech - Enable voice emotes (?)

EnableMusic - Replaced by Sound EnableMusic

EnableSoundWhenGameIsInBG - Replaced by Sound EnableSoundWhenGameIsInBG

ErrorFileLog

expansionMovie

farclipOverride - Resets farclip if past max setting

FixVBOBug

flatFileSystem - Flatten the on-disk hierarchy (?)

footstepBias

frillDensity - Replaced by groundEffectDensity

frilldistance - Replaced by groundEffectDist

fullAlpha - Enable full alpha on terrain doodads

GLFaster

hidePartyInRaid

horizonfarclip - Set draw distance for the horizon.

horizonnearclip - Set draw distance for terrain closest to you.

lod - Level of detail, toggles the level of detail option in the graphics menu

mapObjLightLOD

M2ForceAdditiveParticleSort - force all particles to sort as though they were additive

M2OverrideModel - replace one model with another

M2UsePixelShaders - Enable pixel shaders for models

M2UseShaders - Enable vertex shaders for models

mapObjLightLOD -

mapObjOverbright - Enables Color Bleeding for Bright Lights

mapShadows

MapWaterSounds - Enable water sounds

MasterSoundEffects

MasterVolume - Replaced by Sound MasterVolume

MaxLights

maxLOD

movie

MusicVolume - Replaced by Sound MusicVolume

NvidiaViewportFix

occlusion - Disables rendering of objects that are entirely blocked by other graphics

pixelShaders - Enable pixel shaders -probably replaced by ffx

PlayerAnim

PlayerFadeInRate - fade in rate for player mouseover

PlayerFadeOutAlpha - min fade out alpha for player mouseover

PlayerFadeOutRate - fade out rate for player mouseover

playerTextureLevels - Number of mip levels used for component texture

previewTalents - replaced with previewTalentsOption

questFadingDisable

questLogCollapseFilter - replaced with questLogCollapseHeaderFilter

realmName - Name of most recently used realm (displayed in the lower right corner) (Removed in 5.4.1) Use GetRealmName instead.

ShowAllSpellRanks - Shows all ranks of all spells

showsmartrects - Deprecated in WoW 3.0

shadowBias - Blob Shadow transparency levels

shadowLevel - Level of detail for shadow mip maps

showClock

smallcull - Affects the hiding ('culling') of small objects. Setting to 0 disables.

SoundBufferSize - Sound buffer size

SoundDriver - Sound driver

SoundInitFlags - Initialization flags for sound system (?)

SoundMemoryCache - Sound cache memory size in MB

SoundMixer - Sound mixer to use

SoundMixRate - Sound mix rate

SoundOutputSystem - Sound system

SoundReverb - Enables sound reflections depending on room size

SoundRolloffFactor - Sound rolloff factor (?)

SoundUseHardware - Replaced by Sound EnableHardware

SoundVolume - Sound volume

specular - Enable specular shading

SpellEffectLevel - Increases amount of spell effects

statusBarText - Replaced by several indivual CVars

TargetAnim

texLodBias - Texture Level of Detail Bias (?)

triangleStrips - Deprecated in WoW 3.0

Trilinear - Enable trilinear filtering

unitDrawDist - Unit draw distance

UnitNameCompanionName - Toggle Companion Names

UnitNameEnemyCreationName - Toggle Enemy Creation Names

UnitNameFriendlyCreationName - Toggle Friendly Creation Names

UnitNameRenderMode

UsePboSubImage

UsePboSubImageZeroOffset

waterLOD - Level of Detail for water (Locked)

waterParticulates

waterRipples

widescreen

List of removed CVars up to Patch 8.1.5

AllMPQLocal - Keeps track if the background streaming has downloaded all MPQ files

CinematicJoystick - Enables cinematic joystick control

CombatDamage - Enables floating damage display over enemy targets

CombatHealing - Enables floating healing display over friendly targets

CombatLogPeriodicSpells - Enables periodic spells in combat log (?)

DesktopGamma - Matches Windows' Gamma Settings

EnableMicrophone - Enables the Microphone

EnableVoiceChat - Enables Voice Chat

InboundChatVolume - The volume of all other chat you hear (0.0 - 1.0)

Joystick - Enables Joystick control

M2BatchDoodads - Enables handling of Detail Doodads in batches (combine doodads to reduce batch count)

M2BatchParticles - combine particle emitters to reduce batch count

M2FasterDebug - Enables developer dynamic control (programmer control of scene optimization mode)

M2Faster - End user control of scene optimization mode

M2UseClipPlanes - Use clip planes for sorting transparent objects

M2UseZFill - Enables Z-Fill on transparent objects

MaxLights - Maximum number of hardware lights

MemUsage - Seems to be a console-only command, but displays nothing as of 4.0.3

ObjectFadeZFill - Fade objects using ZFill pass

OutboundChatVolume - The software amplification factor (0.0 - 2.0)

PetMeleeDamage - Show floating pet meelee damage over enemy targets

PetSpellDamage - Show floating pet spell damage over enemy targets

SkySunGlare - Toggles Sun Glare

Sound_EnableHardware - Enables Audio Hardware Acceleration

Sound_EnableMode2 - Enables Alternate sound processing

Sound_EnableSoftwareHRTF - Enables headphone designed sound subsystem

Sound_OutputQuality - Changes the level of Sound Quality (0 - 2)

UIFaster - UI acceleration level

UseAnimKits - Use AnimKits instead of the old unit animation system

WorldPoolUsage - Seems to be a console-only command, but displays nothing as of 4.0.3 (static/dynamic/stream)

accountList - Saves multiple account names for login screen

accountName - Saves 1 account name for login screen

accounttype - Saves what expansion level the user is playing on

advancedWorldMap - Enables advanced World Map features

autoRangedCombat - Automatically switch between ranged and meelee attack

baseMip - Base level for mip mapping ("Texture Resolution" slider)

bgLoadThrottle - Set the maximum percentage of available bandwidth for background streaming

blizzcon - Enables blizzcon special client behavior

bloatnameplates - Increases size of nameplates based on threat percentage

bloattest - Seems to shrink nameplates for any value greater than zero, probably bugged as of 4.0.3

bloatthreat - Makes nameplates larger depending on gaining/losing threat. Only active when a mob has multiple units on its threat table

cameraDistanceMaxFactor - Sets factor by which cameraDistanceMax is multiplied

cameraDistanceMax - Sets the maximum distance which you can zoom out to.

cameraDistanceMoveSpeed - Sets the speed that the camera zooms in and out.

cameraDistanceSmoothSpeed - Sets the speed that the camera zooms in and out. (possible related to camerasmooth)

characterFrameCollapsed - Show detailed stats on the player character frame

charmport

combatLogOn - Whether or not the combat log is shown

consolidateBuffs - Enables buff consolidation

conversationMode - Changes the mode of RealID conversations

coresDetected - Number of CPU cores detected

decorateAccountName - Seems like this in only used on korean realms

enableCombatText - Enables floating combat text

enableResearchSite

environmentDetail - Controls model draw distance for doodads (WoW 3.0)

expansionMovie - Display Burning Crusade intro at startup (This variable is reset to 0 after the video has been shown)

ffxNetherWorld - Enables full screen "nether world" effect, e.g. for a Mage's [Invisibility]

ffxRectangle - Enables Widescreen Framebuffer

ffxSpecial - Enables alternative on screen effects (WoW 3.0 )

ffx - Enables all pixel shaders

fixedFunction - Force fixed function pixel and vertex processing

guildRecruitmentChannel - Whether to join the Guild Recruitment channel on login

guildRewardsCategory - Show category of guild rewards

gxColorBits - Color bits

gxCursor - Enables hardware cursors

gxDepthBits - Depth bits

gxFixLag - Smooth mouse cursor

gxMultisampleQuality - Quality for anti-aliasing (?)

gxMultisample - Enables anti-aliasing (e.g. "4" for 4x multisampling)

gxOverride

gxRefresh - Refresh rate in Hz

gxResolution - Screen resolution (e.g. "1280x1024")

gxRestart - Restarts the graphics engine

gxTextureCacheSize - Set the cache size

gxTripleBuffer - Enables Triple Buffering

gxVSync - Enables VSync

gxWindow - Windowed mode

heapAllocTracking - Enables/disables allocation tracking & dumping in SMemMalloc

heapUsage - Displays heaps in use (Only works in the Console)

hwPCF - Use hardware-based Percentage Closer Filtering for shadows

installType - Type of Installation (Retail/Beta/PTR)

launchThirtyTwoBitClient‎ - Whether to launch 32bit client or 64bit client

lockedWorldMap - Whether the world map is locked when sized down

mapQuestDifficulty - Whether to color quest titles by difficulty in the World Map

mapShadows - Toggle map shadows

maxSpellStartRecoveryoffset - Sets the time in milliseconds before a global cooldown finishes in which a new spell can be queued up

minimapTrackedInfo - Stores the minimap tracking that was active last session

movie - Display intro movie at startup (doesn't work in Burning Crusade game client)

objectFade - Enables the smooth fading of objects after a certain distance

partyStatusText - Toggles the permanent display of health/power texts for party members

patchlist - Address of the WoW patch server

petStatusText - Toggles the permanent display of health/power texts for pets.

playerStatusText - Toggles the permanent display of health/power texts for the player

port

predictedPower - Whether or not to use predicted power values in the UI

raidFramesDisplayIncomingHeals - Whether to display incoming heals on Raid Frames

randomizeSurveyHint

readContest - Whether the user has accepted the PTR contest rules

readEULA - Whether the user has accepted the EULA

readScanning - Whether the user has accepted the system scanning terms

readTOS - Whether the user has accepted the Terms of Use

realmListbn - Battle.net realm list server to use (default: "") - WoW still uses realmList

realmList - Realm list server to use (e.g. "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com" or "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com")

reducedLagTolerance - Enables the use of a user-defined value for the spell queuing system introduced in 4.0.3

repositionfrequency - How many frames to skip per nameplate reposition

showGameTips - Toggles displaying of loading screen game tips

showLootSpam - Toggles the detailed display of loot information (loot rolls etc.)

showNewbieTips - Toggles the display of simplified ability tooltips

showRaidRange - Darkens the raid frame of any raid member who is out of range

showToolsUI - Enables the WoW Launcher

showfootprints - Enables footprint display

spawnallresearchlocs

spreadnameplates - Controls whether nameplates should spread out or overlap

startproject - Results in a disconnect as of 4.0.3

statusTextPercentage - Toggles the permanent display of percentages for status texts on unit frames.

targetStatusText - Toggles the permanent display of health/power texts for the target

textureCacheSize - Caches in memory textures when they are not in use for quick loading. (Min: 8388608, Max: 536870912, Default: 33554432)

unitHighlights - Toggle model highlighting on targeted units

useEnglishAudio - Override the locale and use English audio

useWeatherShaders - Enables weather shaders

worldport - Prints "Teleporting to Stormwind" in the console, but immediately displays an error afterwards