Semphis Jan 2015

Kory Friesen

Cloud9 January 2015config 2013photo 2014-10-30450 DPI1600x900

Cloud9 in January 2015, with n0thing, seang@res, shroud and ShahZaM. These are Semphis's CS:GO settings from 2013, the closest to January 2015 we found that can be converted, with the sensitivity from 2014-08-16 and the resolution from 2016-12-13. Source confidence: medium.

No crosshair of his from his Cloud9 time (Aug 2014 to Apr 2015) is known: this one is from his compLexity config, saved 12 to 17 months before this lineup. The first crosshair Liquipedia lists for him, added on 18 Aug 2016 when he played for TSM (revision 416323), has the same style, size and thickness but gap -2 and green (colour 1) instead of red. Some key-bind lines in the archived file are garbled ("+ USE", a bind split across two lines), which setup.gg corrected in a later commit; the settings lines, the crosshair included, are in the game's own sorted format.

Download .cfg Full config ↓

Crosshair new system

900p pixels, enlarged

cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshair_length 6; cl_crosshair_thickness 1; cl_crosshair_gap 5; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshair_t 0; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 1; cl_crosshairoutline_r 0; cl_crosshairoutline_g 0; cl_crosshairoutline_b 0; cl_crosshairoutline_a 255; cl_crosshair_recoil 0; cl_crosshaircolor_r 250; cl_crosshaircolor_g 0; cl_crosshaircolor_b 0; 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_crosshairgap_useweaponvalue, cl_crosshair_t, cl_crosshair_recoil.
cl_crosshairalpha 999999 is outside 0-255; the old game drew it as 255.
Odd-width bars sit on a different centre pixel in the new game, so the crosshair may appear 1 px off.
The full outline (cl_crosshair_drawoutline 1) is modelled as 1 px all round; no game capture checks it yet.

These are Semphis's CS:GO settings from 2013, the closest to January 2015 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, Semphis'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 3 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 semphis-c9-ibp-2015 in the console.

Part 1 · Crosshair

cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshair_length 6; cl_crosshair_thickness 1; cl_crosshair_gap 5; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshair_t 0; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 1; cl_crosshairoutline_r 0; cl_crosshairoutline_g 0; cl_crosshairoutline_b 0; cl_crosshairoutline_a 255; cl_crosshair_recoil 0; cl_crosshaircolor_r 250; cl_crosshaircolor_g 0; cl_crosshaircolor_b 0; cl_crosshaircolor_a 255; cl_ironsight_usecrosshaircolor 0; cl_ironsight_dot_scale 1; cl_crosshair_screen_height 900

Part 2 · Mouse, viewmodel & radar

sensitivity 1.5; zoom_sensitivity_ratio 1; m_pitch 0.022; m_yaw 0.022; viewmodel_fov 68; viewmodel_offset_x 2.5; viewmodel_offset_y 0; viewmodel_offset_z -1.5; viewmodel_presetpos 3; cl_radar_scale 0.25; cl_radar_always_centered 0; cl_radar_rotate 1; cl_radar_icon_scale_min 0.6

Part 3 · HUD & other

hud_scaling 0.95; hud_showtargetid 0; safezonex 1; safezoney 1; cl_prefer_lefthanded 0; cl_showloadout 1

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 1.5; zoom_sensitivity_ratio 1; m_pitch 0.022; m_yaw 0.022

DPI & polling rate are set in your mouse software, not in-game. Recommended: DPI 450 · eDPI 675 · polling 500 Hz

Viewmodel viewmodel_*

viewmodel_fov 68; viewmodel_offset_x 2.5; viewmodel_offset_y 0; viewmodel_offset_z -1.5; viewmodel_presetpos 3

Radar cl_radar_*

cl_radar_scale 0.25; cl_radar_always_centered 0; cl_radar_rotate 1; cl_radar_icon_scale_min 0.6

HUD hud_*

hud_scaling 0.95; hud_showtargetid 0; safezonex 1; safezoney 1

Performance & Other misc

cl_prefer_lefthanded 0; cl_showloadout 1

Misc convars (fps caps, gamma, gameplay toggles) captured from this player's config.

Adapted for CS2 10

Show what changed

cl_righthand 1 is cl_prefer_lefthanded 0 in CS2 (the value is inverted)
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_customaccel_max doesn't exist in CS2, left out
m_customaccel_scale 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
m_mousespeed doesn't exist in CS2, left out

Video settings manual

Video settings
Resolution	1600x900

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, viewmodel, HUD and radar · 2013 · confidence medium · github.com 1, 2
How the date is known
Semphis's game-written config.cfg (in-game name 'coL.SoundBlaster | SEMPHIS') from setup.gg's archive. Its medal-stats timestamp is 28 Aug 2013, and it lacks lobby_voice_chat_enabled, which matches the 23 Jan 2014 change that made the lobby microphone button remember its state, so it was saved between those dates.
Sensitivity, DPI and polling rate · 2014-08-16 · confidence medium · liquipedia.net 1, 2, 3
How the date is known
Liquipedia's SEMPHIS page has listed sensitivity 1.5 at 450 DPI and 500 Hz since revision 120443 of 16 Aug 2014, two weeks after he joined Cloud9 (1 Aug 2014 in its team history), and still did in revision 120452 of 21 Dec 2014 and revision 120456 of 2 Feb 2015, the revisions just before and just after this lineup (edits on the KnifeRound.net wiki, whose history Liquipedia imported in May 2015). The table cites no source, so the date is when it was added to the page, not when he set it. His 2013 config has sensitivity 1.7.
Zoom sensitivity, raw input and acceleration · 2013 · confidence medium · github.com 1, 2
How the date is known
Same game-written config.cfg as the crosshair (zoom ratio 1, raw input on, acceleration off), saved between 28 Aug 2013 (its medal-stats timestamp) and 23 Jan 2014 (lobby_voice_chat_enabled missing). Its sensitivity, 1.7, is not used, because Liquipedia lists 1.5 from August 2014 on.
Resolution · 2016-12-13 · confidence low · github.com 1, 2, liquipedia.net
How the date is known
Semphis's setup.gg profile (data.yml), added on 13 Dec 2016 with his team as TSM and unchanged since, lists 1600x900; that is the latest date it can be from. Its aspect-ratio field says 4:3, which doesn't fit 1600x900, so only the resolution is shown. Liquipedia lists 1280x960 instead from 8 Jul 2016 (revision 391566) to Feb 2017, and no source from 2014 or 2015 gives his resolution; the crosshair converts to the same length, thickness and gap at either height.
Photo · ESWC 2014 · 2014-10-30 · by VaKarM.net · CC BY 2.0 · via Flickr · cropped

DPI is only taken from a source that lists the same sensitivity, so the eDPI matches the sensitivity shown. The other parts can come from configs of different dates, as listed.

Original config CS:GO

Show the documented CS:GO settings

cl_crosshairstyle 4
cl_crosshairsize 3
cl_crosshairthickness 0.5
cl_crosshairgap 0
cl_crosshaircolor 5
cl_crosshaircolor_r 250
cl_crosshaircolor_g 0
cl_crosshaircolor_b 0
cl_crosshairalpha 999999
cl_crosshairusealpha 1
cl_crosshairdot 0
cl_crosshair_drawoutline 1
cl_crosshair_outlinethickness 1
cl_crosshairscale 0
viewmodel_fov 68
viewmodel_offset_x 2.5
viewmodel_offset_y 0
viewmodel_offset_z -1.5
viewmodel_presetpos 3
cl_righthand 1
hud_scaling 0.95
hud_showtargetid 0
cl_radar_scale 0.25
cl_radar_always_centered 0
cl_radar_rotate 1
cl_radar_icon_scale_min 0.6
cl_showloadout 1
safezonex 1
safezoney 1
sensitivity 1.5
zoom_sensitivity_ratio_mouse 1
m_rawinput 1
m_customaccel 0
m_customaccel_exponent 1.2
m_customaccel_max 0
m_customaccel_scale 0.04
m_mouseaccel1 0
m_mouseaccel2 0
m_mousespeed 1
m_pitch 0.022
m_yaw 0.022

The settings as documented (github.com 1, 2, 3, 4, liquipedia.net 1, 2, 3, 4), before converting. Several of these convars don't exist in CS2, so use the commands above.