In Battlefield 3, is there a console command to disable chat?

Even in 1080p, the chat box is rather annoyingly sized on a 22in monitor. Does anyone know if there is a console command to disable it?

3 Answers

Since the last patch there is a key that lets you toggle the chat between "always", "popup" and "never".

By default it is bound to H

There is apparently a hacky way to do this, per

change these values (example values are for 1024x768)

GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaHeight 0.048000
GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaWidth 1.030000

However, it does look like this interferes with other aspects of the HUD, so it might not be a great or workable solution.

I checked all the things in the list:

and I didn't find anything, though Online.ChatSettings, or Vars.max-chat-message-chars could be used I think.

Probably there is no command like that.