TNO CVar Catalog

Cvars: Wolfenstein: The New Order

Generated by tools/build_cvar_wiki.py from the engine's own cvar registry. Edits made here are overwritten by the next run.

A cvar (console variable) is a named engine setting: field of view, HUD on or off, a damage factor, a debug overlay. Each one has a name, a type, a default value and usually a one-line help text written by the developers. This catalogue lists all 3194 cvars of Wolfenstein: The New Order with the engine's own description and default value, whether the game treats each one as a cheat, and the allowed range where the engine declares one.

Where the data comes from

• Source: the engine's own cvar list. Every idCVar links itself into it when it is constructed, and the startup cheat reset walks the same list. It was read from a read-only memory capture of the running WolfNewOrder_x64.exe; nothing was launched for it. Raw data in the repository: docs/cvars_tno.json, written by tools/extract_cvars_tno.py.
• Count: 3194 registered cvars, all listed, including the 8 read-only and 38 init-only ones.
• Default is the reset value declared in the program, not a value seen in one session.
• Range: 130 cvars declare a minimum and maximum, 4 a list of allowed values; the engine clamps a value to the declared range (read from the code). Empty means none is declared.
• Description is the developers' help text, verbatim. 349 cvars have none (—).
• Type: bool (1189), float (1054), int (788), string (163).

Status: cheat, normal, saved, init-only, read-only

Cheat is the default. The engine marks every cvar as a cheat unless it is registered as non-cheat, init-only, read-only or saved (read from the constructor). The Status column shows what that means for each cvar:

Status	Count	Meaning
cheat	2865	Wiped by the cheat reset at startup, refused when typed as name value. Set it with toggle (below).
normal	114	Not a cheat: +name value on the launch line works.
saved	169	Not a cheat, and the game writes the value to its own wolfConfig.cfg, so a value set once stays until it is set back.
init-only	38	Can only be set on the command line at startup.
read-only	8	Cannot be set at all.

How to set a cvar

Route	Non-cheat cvar	Cheat cvar	Evidence
Launch argument +name value	set, init-only ones included	set, then wiped by the startup cheat reset; the log says Resetting cheat cvar: <name>	measured in game (Modding-Limits §1)
Launch argument +toggle name value value	set	set: startup commands run after the reset, and toggle sets the value without the cheat check	+toggle devgui (without values) measured surviving the reset (Modding-Limits §2); with values not yet tested in game, only read from the code
Console, name value	set	refused: <name> CANNOT be set in retail!	read from the code; the same message is measured for .cfg lines
Console, toggle name value value	set	set	read from the code, not yet tested in game
A line name value in a .cfg file	set	refused: WARNING: <name> CANNOT be set in retail!	measured in game for 26 names, all of them cheat cvars; the 9 names measured as accepted are all non-cheat

toggle name value value always ends at that value: toggle cycles through the values given after it, and with the same value twice there is only one to land on. toggle name 0 1 flips between 0 and 1.

The console opens with Ctrl+^ (the key left of 1, with Ctrl held); com_allowConsole does not open it. This is read from the code and not yet tried in game.

The mod loader sends the Cheats & QoL tweaks and the "cvars" of a mod.json on the launch line: a non-cheat cvar as +name value, a cheat cvar as +name value followed by +toggle name value value, and it drops read-only cvars and names that are not cvars. The +toggle part has not been tested in game yet.

Commands that do not exist in The New Order, neither as commands nor as cvars: god, noclip, notarget, give and spawn. The closest substitutes are toggle g_permaGodMode 0 1 (a saved, non-cheat cvar) and the cheat cvar g_freeCam (a free-moving debug camera).

Pages

Page	Cvars	Prefixes
Gameplay: player, movement, AI, weapons, camera and HUD	976	aa_ 18, af_ 84, ai_ 221, anim_ 31, g_ 386, player_ 28, pm_ 140, springcam_ 13, view_ 31, smaller prefixes 24
Rendering: renderer, textures and video	550	r_ 428, vt_ 97, smaller prefixes 25
Other: engine, sound, network, input, UI and the rest	1668	aas_ 53, alignedent_ 11, atv_ 26, blendtree_ 10, cg_ 22, ch_ 17, cm_ 46, com_ 79, face_ 34, fc_ 11, forge_ 13, fs_ 23, gc_ 17, hands_ 29, in_ 11, joy_ 13, mp_ 15, mq_ 12, net_ 132, p_ 24, pb_ 125, playercontrolled_ 14, playtest_ 24, racecam_ 14, resource_ 14, robot_ 13, rs_ 11, s_ 73, savegame_ 12, si_ 21, spl_ 35, swf_ 58, sys_ 15, third_ 17, tm_ 18, v_ 47, veh_ 34, vehicle_ 223, win_ 14, smaller prefixes 288