Steam: add start options - Here's how

In this practical tip, we will show you how to add start options in Steam. This helps you, for example, to better adapt a game to your own hardware components or to hide certain game elements.

Add launch options in Steam

With the start parameters you can customize your game in many ways:

1. To do this, go to your Steam library and right click on the game you want.
2. Select the "Properties" item in the context menu.
3. Under the "General" tab you have to click on "Set start options ...".
4. Here you can enter any number of start options in a row without spaces.
5. In DayZ, for example, you can set the number of processor cores with "-cpuCount = 4". You can find more start options for DayZ in another practical tip.

This article applies to Steam v013. In another practical tip, we will show you what is behind the Steam Big Picture.