Resolved - DoD:S Console

[Reis]

Name: A.Reis

Rank: SSgt

Type of issue:Steam

Brief Description of Issue:So my console is gone and i can't get it back, i have the ''Enable Console'' thingy crossed still doesn't work.

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Current Status: Resolved

Main Technician: Cutts

Supporting Technician:

[Cutts]

Hmmm...

Have a look in this directory:

...\Steam\steamapps\<user_email>\day of defeat source\dod\cfg

It should contain one or two config files named config.cfg and autoexec.cfg (this one may not exist, as it is user created).

Open those files in notepad and look for the following two lines:

con_enable "1"

and

bind "`" "toggleconsole"

The first one lets the console appear at all, the second one binds it to the key "`" (which for me is just to the left of the number 1).

You might have instead, on a US keyboard:

bind "~" "toggleconsole"

Ok, so if those lines are missing at all, add them to the autoexec.cfg (which you can create if you dont have it... its just a text file renamed ".cfg").

You *could* add them to the config.cfg, but that file is automatically generated by the engine and saved whenever you exit, so your changes might get overwritten.

Also, you can write the autoexec.cfg with nice spaces in between each line, rather than the engine-generated-wall-of-text that is config.cfg.

If, instead, those lines ARE present, then it is possible that the engine is having some problem interpreting your keyboard input (maybe due to some odd

non-standard configuration in windows?) and it might be that the bind is just wrong. You can try putting a different key in there, for example:

bind "F1" "toggleconsole"

Which might be the wrong key, but generally people don't have F1 in use, so its an OK workaround.

Not sure if any of this will help, but its worth a try.

- Cutts

PS. Not sure if this one works any more (might have been just an old HL1 thing) but you can try adding the "-console" switch to the command line for the game.

To do this in steam:

1) Right-click "Day of Defeat: Source" in your library.

2) Click "Properties"

3) Click "Set Launch Options"

4) Type "-console" into the box that appears

5) Click OK.

That should force the game to enable the console if it isn't already (forces con_enable "1"), but it is unlikely to work when the .cfg methods haven't.

[Reis]

It works! Thank you Cutts!

[Cutts]

No problem!