For the first time in many years, I have a video card that can handle current video games. Unfortunately I don’t have any current games — I might buy CS:S or TF2 soon — but I do have CS 1.6, and I was surprised to learn it’s still very much active. So for the last few days I’ve been playing cs_assault, cs_italy, scoutzknivez… hoping that the skill I once had at age 15 will suddenly rekindle. My performance last night showed some promise. We’ll see.
In any case, if your Half-Life client mysteriously stops displaying chat messages like mine did last night, here’s how to fix it (or how I fixed it at least):
- Bring up the console by pressing the tilde key (`).
- Type hud_saytext_time X where X is the number of seconds that a message will stay on the screen. (I used 5.) Press enter.
This value had been zeroed out somehow which had the effect of hiding chat messages altogether. If you want to hide chat for some reason, execute hud_saytext_time 0.
Can someone help me please!!!! I have been everywhere and unable to solve my problem! I’m hosting as cs1.6 server! It’s all working but 1 thing, chat is disabled on the server. When somebody sends a message with “say” or “say_team” it simply says #cstike_chat where the message should have been!!! Can you help me? Thankyou very much…
Posted by Lucka on September 12th, 2008.