Settings

This documentation displays annotated settings with default values and description. Please do not edit it directly, but add new [Desc("String")] tags to the source code. This file has been automatically generated for version release-20231010 of OpenRA.

All settings can be changed by starting the game via a command-line parameter like Game.Mod=ra.

Location

• Windows: %APPDATA%\OpenRA\settings.yaml
• Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/OpenRA/settings.yaml
• Linux ~/.config/openra/settings.yaml

Older releases (before playtest-20190825) used different locations, which newer versions may continue to use in some circumstances:

• Windows: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\OpenRA\settings.yaml
• Linux ~/.openra/settings.yaml

If you create the folder Support relative to the OpenRA main directory, everything including settings gets stored there to aid portable installations.

Debug

PerfText

Display average FPS and tick/render times

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	PerfText: False

PerfGraph

Display a graph with various profiling traces

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	PerfGraph: False

Samples

Number of samples to average over when calculating tick and render times.

Default Value: 25

Debug: 
	Samples: 25

CheckVersion

Check whether a newer version is available online.

Default Value: True

Debug: 
	CheckVersion: True

SendSystemInformation

Allow the collection of anonymous data such as Operating System, .NET runtime, OpenGL version and language settings.

Default Value: True

Debug: 
	SendSystemInformation: True

SystemInformationVersionPrompt

Version of sysinfo that the player last opted in or out of.

Default Value: 0

Debug: 
	SystemInformationVersionPrompt: 0

UUID

Sysinfo anonymous user identifier.

Default Value: d852c022-f06e-4cb2-9c8f-127e2ba686a1

Debug: 
	UUID: d852c022-f06e-4cb2-9c8f-127e2ba686a1

DisplayDeveloperSettings

Enable hidden developer settings in the Advanced settings tab.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	DisplayDeveloperSettings: False

BotDebug

Display bot debug messages in the game chat.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	BotDebug: False

LuaDebug

Display Lua debug messages in the game chat.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	LuaDebug: False

EnableDebugCommandsInReplays

Enable the chat field during replays to allow use of console commands.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	EnableDebugCommandsInReplays: False

EnableSimulationPerfLogging

Enable perf.log output for traits, activities and effects.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	EnableSimulationPerfLogging: False

LongTickThresholdMs

Amount of time required for triggering perf.log output.

Default Value: 1

Debug: 
	LongTickThresholdMs: 1

SyncCheckUnsyncedCode

Throw an exception if the world sync hash changes while evaluating user input.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	SyncCheckUnsyncedCode: False

SyncCheckBotModuleCode

Throw an exception if the world sync hash changes while evaluating BotModules.

Default Value: False

Debug: 
	SyncCheckBotModuleCode: False

Game

AuthProfile

Filename of the authentication profile to use.

Default Value: player.oraid

Game: 
	AuthProfile: player.oraid

IntroductionPromptVersion

Version of introduction prompt that the player last viewed.

Default Value: 0

Game: 
	IntroductionPromptVersion: 0

EnableDiscordService

Allow mods to enable the Discord service that can interact with a local Discord client.

Default Value: True

Game: 
	EnableDiscordService: True

Graphics

Mode

This can be set to Windowed, Fullscreen or PseudoFullscreen.

Default Value: PseudoFullscreen

Graphics: 
	Mode: PseudoFullscreen

VSync

Enable VSync.

Default Value: True

Graphics: 
	VSync: True

FullscreenSize

Screen resolution in fullscreen mode.

Default Value: 0,0

Graphics: 
	FullscreenSize: 0,0

WindowedSize

Screen resolution in windowed mode.

Default Value: 1024,768

Graphics: 
	WindowedSize: 1024,768

CapFramerate

Add a frame rate limiter.

Default Value: False

Graphics: 
	CapFramerate: False

MaxFramerate

At which frames per second to cap the framerate.

Default Value: 60

Graphics: 
	MaxFramerate: 60

CapFramerateToGameFps

Set a frame rate limit of 1 render frame per game simulation frame (overrides CapFramerate/MaxFramerate).

Default Value: False

Graphics: 
	CapFramerateToGameFps: False

DisableGLDebugMessageCallback

Disable the OpenGL debug message callback feature.

Default Value: False

Graphics: 
	DisableGLDebugMessageCallback: False

DisableHardwareCursors

Disable operating-system provided cursor rendering.

Default Value: False

Graphics: 
	DisableHardwareCursors: False

DisableLegacyGL

Disable legacy OpenGL 2.1 support.

Default Value: True

Graphics: 
	DisableLegacyGL: True

VideoDisplay

Display index to use in a multi-monitor fullscreen setup.

Default Value: 0

Graphics: 
	VideoDisplay: 0

GLProfile

Preferred OpenGL profile to use.

Modern: OpenGL Core Profile 3.2 or greater.

Embedded: OpenGL ES 3.0 or greater.

Legacy: OpenGL 2.1 with framebuffer_object extension (requires DisableLegacyGL: False)

Automatic: Use the first supported profile.

Default Value: Automatic

Graphics: 
	GLProfile: Automatic

Launch

These are runtime parameters which can't be defined in settings.yaml.

Connect

Connect to the following server given as IP:PORT on startup.

URI

Connect to the unified resource identifier openra://IP:PORT on startup.

Replay

Automatically start playing the given replay file.

Benchmark

Dump performance data into cpu.csv and render.csv in the logs folder with the given prefix.

Map

Automatically start playing the given map.

Player

Name

Sets the player nickname.

Default Value: Commander

Player: 
	Name: Commander

Server

Name

Sets the server name.

Default Value:

Server: 
	Name: 

ListenPort

Sets the internal port.

Default Value: 1234

Server: 
	ListenPort: 1234

AdvertiseOnline

Reports the game to the master server list.

Default Value: True

Server: 
	AdvertiseOnline: True

Password

Locks the game with a password.

Default Value:

Server: 
	Password: 

DiscoverNatDevices

Allow users to search UPnP/NAT-PMP enabled devices for automatic port forwarding.

Default Value: False

Server: 
	DiscoverNatDevices: False

NatPortMappingLifetime

Time in seconds for UPnP/NAT-PMP mappings to last.

Default Value: 36000

Server: 
	NatPortMappingLifetime: 36000

Map

Starts the game with a default map. Input as hash that can be obtained by the utility.

Ban

Takes a comma separated list of IP addresses that are not allowed to join.

RequireAuthentication

For dedicated servers only, allow anonymous clients to join.

Default Value: False

Server: 
	RequireAuthentication: False

ProfileIDWhitelist

For dedicated servers only, if non-empty, only allow authenticated players with these profile IDs to join.

ProfileIDBlacklist

For dedicated servers only, if non-empty, always reject players with these user IDs from joining.

EnableSingleplayer

For dedicated servers only, controls whether a game can be started with just one human player in the lobby.

Default Value: False

Server: 
	EnableSingleplayer: False

QueryMapRepository

Query map information from the Resource Center if they are not available locally.

Default Value: True

Server: 
	QueryMapRepository: True

EnableSyncReports

Enable client-side report generation to help debug desync errors.

Default Value: False

Server: 
	EnableSyncReports: False

TimestampFormat

Sets the timestamp format. Defaults to the ISO 8601 standard.

Default Value: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss

Server: 
	TimestampFormat: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss

ShareAnonymizedIPs

Allow clients to see anonymised IPs for other clients.

Default Value: True

Server: 
	ShareAnonymizedIPs: True

EnableGeoIP

Allow clients to see the country of other clients.

Default Value: True

Server: 
	EnableGeoIP: True

RecordReplays

For dedicated servers only, save replays for all games played.

Default Value: False

Server: 
	RecordReplays: False

EnableLintChecks

For dedicated servers only, treat maps that fail the lint checks as invalid.

Default Value: True

Server: 
	EnableLintChecks: True

FloodLimitJoinCooldown

Delay in milliseconds before newly joined players can send chat messages.

Default Value: 5000

Server: 
	FloodLimitJoinCooldown: 5000

FloodLimitInterval

Amount of milliseconds player chat messages are tracked for.

Default Value: 5000

Server: 
	FloodLimitInterval: 5000

FloodLimitMessageCount

Amount of chat messages per FloodLimitInterval a players can send before flood is detected.

Default Value: 5

Server: 
	FloodLimitMessageCount: 5

FloodLimitCooldown

Delay in milliseconds before players can send chat messages after flood was detected.

Default Value: 15000

Server: 
	FloodLimitCooldown: 15000

EnableVoteKick

Can players vote to kick other players?

Default Value: True

Server: 
	EnableVoteKick: True

VoteKickTimer

After how much time in miliseconds should the vote kick fail after idling?

Default Value: 30000

Server: 
	VoteKickTimer: 30000

VoteKickerCooldown

If a vote kick was unsuccessful for how long should the player who started the vote not be able to start new votes?

Default Value: 120000

Server: 
	VoteKickerCooldown: 120000