f0rest 2013

Patrik Lindberg

all of 2013

#2 HLTV Top 20 of 2013Ninjas in Pyjamasconfig 2012photo 2011-12-111600x90016:9

#2 in HLTV Top 20 Players of 2013 (Ninjas in Pyjamas). These are f0rest's CS:GO settings from 2012, the closest to 2013 we found that can be converted, with the resolution from 2016-12-13. Source confidence: medium.

The same crosshair was still passed around as his in December 2013 (the gist cited for the crosshair), and Liquipedia lists it for him from November 2014 to at least October 2015.

Download .cfg Full config ↓

Crosshair new system

900p pixels, enlarged

cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshair_length 11; cl_crosshair_thickness 2; cl_crosshair_gap 4; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshair_t 0; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshair_recoil 0; cl_crosshaircolor_r 50; cl_crosshaircolor_g 250; cl_crosshaircolor_b 50; cl_crosshaircolor_a 255; cl_ironsight_usecrosshaircolor 0; cl_ironsight_dot_scale 1; cl_crosshair_screen_height 900

Not in this config because the setting didn't exist yet, so off: cl_crosshair_drawoutline, cl_crosshair_t, cl_crosshair_recoil.
cl_crosshairalpha 999 is outside 0-255; the old game drew it as 255.
Until 5 Jun 2013 the style 4 gap changed per weapon; the current game has one gap, so the export uses the gap without the weapon value.

These are f0rest's CS:GO settings from 2012, the closest to 2013 we found that can be converted (see where these settings come from). Converted to CS2's crosshair system since the Sept 22, 2026 update, authored at 900p, f0rest's resolution; CS2 rescales it to your resolution.

Valve published no conversion formula. This uses a community reconstruction (small-indie-crosshair-company v0.19.1, model community-static-v11, CS2 build 2000922); for Static Cross at 1080p and 960p it agrees with the rule crosshairrestore.com measured from in-game screenshots (CS2 builds before Sept 30), and nothing else has been checked against captures.

The paste sets every setting that shapes this crosshair, including the iron-sight dot (CS2's defaults where their config has no value), so nothing from your current crosshair carries over.

Full config 2 parts

Download .cfg

The CS2 console can reject a pasted line longer than 510 characters, so the full config comes in parts: press ~ in CS2, paste part 1, press Enter, then do the same with the next part. Or download the .cfg, save it in Counter-Strike Global Offensive/game/csgo/cfg/ and run exec f0rest-2013 in the console.

Part 1 · Crosshair

cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshair_length 11; cl_crosshair_thickness 2; cl_crosshair_gap 4; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshair_t 0; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshair_recoil 0; cl_crosshaircolor_r 50; cl_crosshaircolor_g 250; cl_crosshaircolor_b 50; cl_crosshaircolor_a 255; cl_ironsight_usecrosshaircolor 0; cl_ironsight_dot_scale 1; cl_crosshair_screen_height 900

Part 2 · Mouse, viewmodel & radar

sensitivity 3.28; zoom_sensitivity_ratio 1; m_pitch 0.022; m_yaw 0.022

Convars CS2 renamed are renamed, values outside CS2's range are set to the nearest one it accepts, and convars CS2 doesn't have or that are cheat-protected are left out (see Adapted for CS2 below).

Mouse & Sensitivity sensitivity

sensitivity 3.28; zoom_sensitivity_ratio 1; m_pitch 0.022; m_yaw 0.022

Their DPI isn't documented with this sensitivity. The matcher below assumes 400 DPI, from their setup.gg profile (2016-12-13, where they used sensitivity 3.5); change it if you know better.

Adapted for CS2 7

Show what changed

zoom_sensitivity_ratio_mouse is called zoom_sensitivity_ratio in CS2
m_rawinput doesn't exist in CS2, left out
m_customaccel doesn't exist in CS2, left out
m_customaccel_exponent doesn't exist in CS2, left out
m_mousespeed doesn't exist in CS2, left out
m_mouseaccel1 doesn't exist in CS2, left out
m_mouseaccel2 doesn't exist in CS2, left out

Video settings manual

Video settings
Resolution	1600x900
Aspect Ratio	16:9

CS2 doesn't allow these via console commands — set them in Settings → Video. For stretched scaling also configure your GPU driver panel.

Where these settings come from

Crosshair · 2012 · confidence medium · gamerconfig.eu, gist.github.com
How the date is known
Game-written config.cfg (in-game name 'NiP-iZnoGouD-'; Liquipedia lists iZnoGouD as one of his IDs) uploaded to gamerconfig.eu as config 2183, 'NiP.f0rest cfg'. Its medal-stats timestamp is 8 Sep 2012 and it lacks cl_crosshair_drawoutline, which the 22 May 2013 update added, so it was saved between those dates. The 'NiP f0rest' block that a third-party autoexec gist added on 6 Dec 2013 copies it, down to the stray apostrophe in cl_crosshairalpha "999'", which is written here as 999.
Sensitivity · 2012 · confidence medium · github.com 1, 2
How the date is known
Game-written config.cfg filed under f0rest in setup.gg's archive (in-game name 'NiP-iZnoGouD-'; its crosshair is the 'NiP f0rest' one). It has cl_crosshairgap, added 22 Aug 2012, but not cl_crosshairstyle, which the game had by 13 Dec 2012, so it was saved between those dates.
Resolution · 2016-12-13 · confidence low · github.com, liquipedia.net 1, 2
How the date is known
setup.gg's player profile (1600x900, 16:9), created in setupgg/data's first commit on 13 Dec 2016 and never changed. It gives no date or source, so this is only when it was published. No source from before 2015 gives his resolution, and later ones disagree: Liquipedia first listed one on 10 Jul 2015 (revision 169989), 1600x900, then 1024x768 with black bars from 11 Oct 2015 (revision 224614), 1600x900 again by 23 Nov 2015 (revision 249916), 1280x960 on 20 Feb 2016 (revision 304995) and 1024x768 with black bars from 17 Apr 2016 (revision 343725) to 2019; the CS:GO Player Setups sheet (row updated 15 May 2016) lists 1280x960 4:3.
DPI (assumed) · 2016-12-13 · github.com
Why it is assumed
No source lists a DPI with this sensitivity, so the DPI matcher assumes the 400 DPI of their setup.gg profile, which lists sensitivity 3.5; change it on the page if you know better.
Photo · WCG 2011 Grand Final · 2011-12-11 · by xReDeYe · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons · cropped

No source lists a DPI with this sensitivity, so the DPI matcher's DPI is assumed (see above). The other parts can come from configs of different dates, as listed.

Original config CS:GO

Show the documented CS:GO settings

cl_crosshairalpha 999
cl_crosshaircolor 1
cl_crosshaircolor_b 0
cl_crosshaircolor_g 0
cl_crosshaircolor_r 0
cl_crosshairdot 0
cl_crosshairgap -1
cl_crosshairscale 0
cl_crosshairsize 6
cl_crosshairstyle 4
cl_crosshairthickness 1
cl_crosshairusealpha 1
sensitivity 3.28
zoom_sensitivity_ratio_mouse 1
m_rawinput 1
m_customaccel 0
m_customaccel_exponent 1.05
m_mousespeed 1
m_mouseaccel1 0
m_mouseaccel2 0
m_pitch 0.022
m_yaw 0.022

The settings as documented (gamerconfig.eu, gist.github.com, github.com 1, 2, 3, liquipedia.net 1, 2), before converting. Several of these convars don't exist in CS2, so use the commands above.