

Here you can specify even higher quality shadow map resolutions (i.e. The above switches set the Shadow Map size, which affects all shadow quality, similar to the in-game Shadows Quality setting. sjitter - Enables Shadow Jittering to soften shadow edges. r4xx - Forces the game to start with Static Lighting DX8 Renderer. r2a - Forces the game to start with Objects Dynamic Lighting DX9 Renderer. r2 - Forces the game to start with Full Dynamic Lighting DX9 Renderer. psp - Enables third person view mode, but has bugs. overlay - Forces a different directory for saved games/profiles/config file. nosound - Disables all sound in the game.

noshadows - Disables shadows from dynamic light sources (excluding the Sun). Games load faster, in-game stuttering may increase or drop. nodistort - Removes distortion effects, e.g heat haze around fires and warping near anomalies. mblur - Allows the r2_mblur command to function correctly if used. ltx - Loads and executes specified filename.ltx configuration file. load - Loads specified saved game on startup. gpu_sw - Switches the GPU state to Software Renderer. gpu_ref - Switches the GPU state to Reference mode. gpu_nopure - Switches the GPU state from Pure Hardware to simply Hardware mode. file_activity - Records file activity in the console during the game. center_screen - Centers the game window when running in windowed mode. The full list of Command Line Switches for Clear Sky is provided below in alphabetical order. Suggested usage instructions for the most useful switches are spread throughout this guide. Furthermore some switches which were present in Shadow of Chernobyl are no longer present in Clear Sky, most notably -nointro and -dsound.

Importantly: Some switches have no discernable impact, or simply cause the game to crash while loading. You can disable them at any time simply by removing the relevant switch from the launch icon, or creating a second launch icon without the switches and using that to launch the game whenever you don't wish to enable a certain switch. These would otherwise not be possible to do using the in-game settings. The switches -noprefetch and -noshadows used above prevent prefetching of data and also disable all non-Sun shadows in the game engine. Clear Sky\bin\xrEngine.exe" -noprefetch -noshadows "C:\Program Files\Deep Silver\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Then in the Target box, one space after the last character, insert the switch(es) you wish to use, each separated by one blank space. To use a command line switch, go to your STALKER: Clear Sky launch icon, right-click on it and select Properties. These 'switches' are commands which are passed on to the game's main executable file xrEngine.exe, telling the engine to do certain things as the game launches. There are a range of additional commands you can execute when first launching Clear Sky called Command Line Switches. STALKER: Clear Sky Tweak Guide Advanced Tweaking (Pt.3)
