Has anyone actually turned off their autosave?

[ianlippert]

I know this problem has been coming up a lot and I did a forum search. I'm in ravenholm right now and hating the autosave. There is one part where you jump onto a board that is a bridge across two buildings and it autosaves. The board is about 10ft and leads to a room, where is autosaves again! Thx Valve but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to die in those 2 seconds :/

anyway, how do you turn this stupid thing off. I've tried both autosave 0 and sv_autosave 0, both in the console and the .cfg file. Neither works. The .cfg file just resets itself when I load up the game, and sv_autosave does nothing. Has anyone come up with a solution and actually tested it to see if it works?

oh and HL2.net rocks! The only forum I've been able to find that isnt populated by a bunch of retards

 

[rms]

perhaps you need to enable cheats for it to work ?

rms

 

[appoooh]

To permanently disable autosaves you have to make the following files in \half-life 2\hl2\SAVE read-only. I've tested this and it works. You will get an error in the console when the client tries to autosave and can't.

autosave.sav
autosave.tga
autosave01.sav
autosave01.tg

 

[ianlippert]

Thx it helped a bit. It still freezes for a split second, but its not as noticable. Hopefully when valve releases the patch there will be an option to turn it off.