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How to fix messed up configs
By Pangia
It was another time pr0 über realism apocalypse server with .ru domain made all your config files gefickt so you have no outlines and only 100 bullets for M16 in reserve? Here's the final solution.
   
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs, Weapons
Languages: English
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27 Oct, 2015 @ 3:14pm
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OK then, smartass, how are you going to save the world again? 
And what's the purpose of doing so? 
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OK then, smartass, how are you going to save the world again?


  1. Make sure all the changes you made to your config are final so you ain't gonna edit it.
  2. Create a direct copy of it and name it however you want, e.g. gaben is love gaben is life.cfg (ALWAYS .cfg).
  3. Create autoexec.cfg and inside it put:
    exec gaben is love gaben is life.cfg
  4. ???
  5. PROFIT!
And what's the purpose of doing so?
Since 99,99% of players don't back up their configs, playing on some kind of freaked out server with Tank+horde setting and shadows as dark as Louis' butth♥le results in need of veryfing game cache or, more advanced, deleting config.cfg file, which anyway results in getting default config. This way you need only to restart your game since edits are made to config.cfg file, which are discarded after starting L4D again cause any changes are overwritten anyway by the config executed by autoexec.cfg.
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Don't forget to check the other guide from serie „How to save yourself 10 years of lifetime by not getting mad about modded Russian servers”:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=541741732
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Lucifer 24 May, 2016 @ 12:39pm 
No problem.
Pangia  [author] 24 May, 2016 @ 2:12am 
Good point, thanks for reminding that.
Lucifer 24 May, 2016 @ 2:11am 
You should include that you need to have file extensions enabled in Windows to be able to correctly rename a .txt to .cfg
Pangia  [author] 1 Nov, 2015 @ 4:12am 
@.blue – sure, but then everytime you want to change sth, you have to uncheck that parameter from file properties.
514 31 Oct, 2015 @ 4:59pm 
Or you can just set your config.cfg to read-only.