Editing Config.cfg

Ashaman_Joe

<div class="IPBDescription">Trying to add items</div> I have been trying to edit my config file to add in hud_deathnotice_time "15" and hud_saytext_time "15". When I try and add it via notepad, when I save it and open it again, my changes have been erased. When I turn them on in-game, the changes never last after I leave the game; instead reverting to their default values (6 and 5, I think). Can anyone help me make these changes stay?

RADEON 9000 64 MB with driver version 6.14.10.6396
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Windows 2000 Professional
Open GL in 1280x1024
HL Game of the Year Edition
512 DDR RAM
Latest Steam

Thank you

Thansal

umm, steam or won?

and make sure that the file/directory is not read only <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Ashaman_Joe

Should I have made the 'Latest Steam' part on my system specs bolded <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> ?

The file is not read only.

VeNeM

what he meant was, save the file with your changes, then right click it, go to properties and check read only.

devicenull

Are those actual settings for hl?
If not, they will probably be removed by steam when it loads the config file..
If you can save the file in notpad without an error, it means that it is not read only

Thansal

Try creating an autoexec.cfg in your dir and simply put the changes in there, that should do it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

devicenull

Here what I did in steam (steam seems to use userconfig.cfg instead of autoexec.cfg)
userconfig.cfg
exec autoexec.cfg
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simple little fix that works well

Ashaman_Joe

Sorry for not replying quickly: I was on vacation. Adding them into autoexec.cfg works fine.