Centering people names under your crosshairs (center id):

By default, when you point your crosshairs at someone, the name of the person you are pointing your weapon at will show up at the lower left hand side of the screen making you move your eyes from the center of the screen (off of them) to the lower left hand side to read their name. If you turn ON hud_centerid, the person's game name will then be displayed in the center of the screen underneath your crosshairs when you point their weapon at them, this will make it much easier and faster to identify and target enemies (and also help you avoid shooting friends).

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-Life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-life console, type in:
hud_centerid "1"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.

Putting a weapon in your hand when it's selected (fast switch):

Usually when you select a weapon by pressing the number keys (1,2,3,4,5), you have to hit a number button to select it, then hit your fire button before the weapon actually appears in your hand. If you have fast weapon switch turned on (hud_fastswitch 1), as soon and you select that weapon by pressing a number, it appears in you hand, saving precious time during a fire fight. (This does not affect the Previous/Next weapon mouse scroll, only the keyboard's number keys).

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-Life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-life console, type in:
hud_fastswitch "1"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.
Now, when you select a weapon, its "in your hand".

***I use this to moniter my unconsistant internet connection on my com in vacation house***

Turning on "NetGraph" (frames per second & internet connection monitor):

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-Life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-life console, type in:
net_graph "1"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.

Now, when you get into a game with that mod, you will see a graph in the lower right hand corner of the screen. The netgraph contacts the FPS (frames per seconds) of video card while playing. A higher FPS number is better, lower FPS looks "jerky" like an old silent Charlie Chaplin movie. There is also a "graph" that show several colors, basically you want a green line to stay "solid" and at the top of the graph and the blue and red line (might appear as single violet line) to stay solid and at the bottom of the graph. If you get a bad internet connection you will start to see the lines "ramp up and down" and look erratic (bad connections graphs looks like a saw's teeth shape). Note, with NetGraph on, it does not actually change any video settings, it is only a tool for monitoring your internet connection quality and your FPS in games, the effects of it "loading" (no extra lagging) your video card are usually negligible. To turn of the netgraph, just enter in net_graph "0" in the console and hit your ENTER key.

***nHance posted this but without any details as to what it does....***

Changing the text message color to an easier to read color:

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-Life console, type in:
con_color "255 255 0"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.

Now, when you you get into a game, the colors of your text is now an easy to read YELLOW color (con_color "255 255 0"), instead of that nasty puke orange default color. ;-)

You can set the text message color to any color, brighter colors are better and easier to read in the game, especially at higher screen resolutions. The 3 numbers relate to how much RED, GREEN and BLUE of each color is added together to form the color of the text messages in that Half-Life mod. There can be any value from 0 to 255. Setting a color to 0 turns that color completely off. Setting it to 255 turns it completely on, so if you set it to con_color "255 0 0" your text messages would all appear on your screen as red text.

These are just a few of the possible text message color settings:
(they are colored the same color your text would be if you changed to that setting)

Half-Life Text Color Setting Color
con_color "255 0 0" red
con_color "0 255 0" green
con_color " 0 0 255" blue
con_color "255 255 0" yellow
con_color "255 0 255" fuchsia
con_color "0 255 255" aqua
con_color "255 255 255" white

con_color "255 155 50"
(orange is the default color in Counter-Strike)

***This is great for newbies but i doubt any of us are... i used this when i went from non steam to steam***

Setting the number of models in Counter-Strike to the minimum amount:
(this is a MUST DO tweak for newbies!!)

NOTE: If you are new to Counter-Strike and usually can't figure out who to shoot before you end up dead ;-(, set Counter-Strike to use only (3) models instead of the default of 11 models. It would use (1) "model" for the Terrorist team, (1) for the Counter-Terrorist team and (1) for the VIP/Hostages.

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-Life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-Life console, type in:
cl_minmodels "1"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.

Note: cl_minmodels "0" sets to the default of (11) models.

***this i use myself***

Counter-Strike Grenade Binds:
(this is a MUST do tweak!!)

First up, in my opinion, without the proper use of grenades in CS, you will probably never be more then just an average CS player. This tweaks binds one key to a grenade so you can quickly select then throw it.

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-Life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-Life console, type in:
bind "m" "weapon_hegrenade"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.
5. In your Half-Life console, type in:
bind "n" "weapon_flashbang"
6. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.
7. In your Half-Life console, type in:
bind "k" "weapon_smokegrenade"
8. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.

Now, when you want to throw a frag grenade quickly, just point you gun where you want the grenade to go, then hit your "m" button (this puts a frag grenade in your hand if you bought one), then hit your "fire" button TWICE really fast. You will be slinging grenades around like a wild man soon!

In Counter-Strike, I personally have 2 keys bound specially bound to the Flashbang grenades and the High Explosive grenade. I almost never use the smoke grenade, because of the lag created by the video from the smoke grenades, but it is handy for cover.

NOTE: you can substitute any un-used key for the "n", "m, or "k" keys. There are CS "grenade scripts" out there on the internet, but I personally think that all is needed is simply to bind a key to quickly select a grenade, then hit fire twice to throw it, also a lot of the "grenade scripts" just don't work correctly or at all for dialup guys because of internet delays.

***This works for me cuse i get laggy when im looking at smoke grenades***

Setting "fastsprites" setting in CS to help with smoke lag:
(in Counter-Strike)

If you have an older video card, the "fastsprites" Half-life setting might significantly affect your game play when smoke grenades or during other intensive sprite drawing times in games. "Sprites" are pictures that get drawn on your screen during a Half-life game. Muzzle flashes, grenades explosions, smoke grenades, ricochets, etc, are examples of sprites. If you have an older video card and seem to lag badly when you are looking at smoke grenades going off, turning down and sacrificing the quality of the smoke (sprite) effects will usually help the quality of the display and usually keep the FPS from dropping drastically when smoke grenades go off.

1. Get into a Counter-Strike game.
2. Pull down your Half-Life console by hitting your "`" key.
3. In your Half-life console, type in:
fastsprites "2"
4. Then, hit your keyboard's ENTER key.

Note: fastsprites "0" is the default setting, also there is a mid way setting fastsprites "1". There is also a way to change this setting in the "Customization" "Configuration" Menu.

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this is copied from ticclan(not trying to take credit for what i have bnot done mylslef but i hope this helps u alll

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