[cs-help] CS Install Location Issue

With the recent update the install location for Counter-Strike 1.6 moved to SteamApps/common/Half-Life . If you are experiencing crashes on startup after the update, and are running on Windows, it is possible that your install failed to convert to the new location, it may still be trying to run from the old folder.



To fix this issue delete your Counter-Strike install and install it again, after making a copy of any custom configurations you may have made.

For the more technically minded, you can use a tool like:
Process Explorer v16.22 to verify that you are running from the correct location.


Launch options:

-nofbo -nomsaa +cl_filterstuffcmd 1

-nofbo
Tells engine to use old renderind method. New method includes multi-sample anti-aliasing. Though it's not necessary, most people who had issues with black screens fixed it with this command so I'm recommending this as a norm but if your game works fine without it, no requirement to include it.

-nomsaa
Disables anti-aliasing.

+cl_filterstuffcmd
Valve's implementation on blocking malicious commands from the server.