Posted February 15, 200520 yr One of our senior members, [myg0t]nimrod took a few minutes and came up with this simple hack written in ASM, to auto-find the offset for sv_cheats and freeze it at 1. Read the post below this for more information on this. You can download nimrod's hack by clicking here. While browsing the Steam forums, I noticed a thread about "r_3dsky" which was started by some people I know, so I began to read into it. It's rather interesting and once again, as with my news post yesterday, points out how STUPID VALVe is, and I believe for the sake of not letting companies [VALVe] push you into buying expensive hardware to play their shitty games [HL2/CS:S], you should all read it. You can find that thread here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=232650 The talented group of previously underground modification developers of Game-Deception have made a short tool and released the source code along with it, which will enable you to disable r_3dsky by setting it to 0. Which in turn for nearly EVERY computer tested on gives ~20-30 extra FPS. This is NOT a cheat, read the thread on the Steam forums for more information about this, and to discuss it. You may find the "r_3dsky Fixer" tool by PizzaPan by clicking here, or by visiting this thread in the Game-Deception forums: http://forum.game-deception.com/showthread.php?t=6785
February 15, 200520 yr Author I uploaded the files to some other hosting, and updated the URL's for the Game-Deception forums, guests should be able to view the thread I linked to now.
February 15, 200520 yr Nice new tools and nice find. Valve's best PR's person better find a anwser to this r_3dsky quick. Sure is looking like a simple way to force lower FPS and sell more graphics cards. Remember Valve was partnered with ATI for the HL2 release. This really wouldn't suprise me if they did this at all. It's something a marketing department would come up with, I work for a big corporation and see this crap all the time. It's really simple. You allow the game to be playable on low end system which Valve did. This gives people a taste of the game but you purposely put in some code to reduce the FPS so the low-end system owners are forced to upgrade. They then brand the game to run best on ATI cards when selling it. End result is more ATI graphic card sales thanks to some extra code that does nothing but lower FPS. How else can this be explained, since its proven it does not reduce quailty of the game really nor is a cheat.
February 15, 200520 yr holy shit huge difference. They worked on the source engine for so long and couldnt impliment this easy fix. Valve is fucking stupid. OMP I have an ati card, and the game still runs like shit until I put the fix, this is just proof of negligence to test the game from Valve's part. But who knows anything could be possible.
February 16, 200520 yr So has anybody actually got setpos to work? It won't work for me and I was using the command correctly. Edit: also, has anybody found anything interesting to do besides wallhacks with this?
February 16, 200520 yr oh man! poor thing! i think the setpos thing doesnt work at all :( if u do getpos u get the info u need for setpos, but it doesnt work at all, for me at least. that sucks. anyone? the built wallhack works though,a s well as fullbright. u can do r_3dsky 0 as well. but for me it crashes css after a few minutes. but thats a graphic driver issue i guess, cuz css is not the only d3d app which keeps crashing me :/, so try it urself.
February 16, 200520 yr nimrod']oh man! poor thing! i think the setpos thing doesnt work at all :( if u do getpos u get the info u need for setpos, but it doesnt work at all, for me at least. that sucks. anyone? the built wallhack works though,a s well as fullbright. u can do r_3dsky 0 as well. but for me it crashes css after a few minutes. but thats a graphic driver issue i guess, cuz css is not the only d3d app which keeps crashing me :/, so try it urself. yea all the r_ commands and mat_ commands work. godmode noclip setpos setmodel and that shit doesnt work.
February 17, 200520 yr Techno_Warrior']holy shit huge difference. They worked on the source engine for so long and couldnt impliment this easy fix. Valve is fucking stupid. OMP I have an ati card, and the game still runs like shit until I put the fix, this is just proof of negligence to test the game from Valve's part. But who knows anything could be possible. OMP is right. This is a marketing ploy/business ploy, nothing more. It's very common in Enterprise. It's basically consumer baiting and it works really well. For current games FPS is the buzzword and the key to get the FPS is a new video card. HDR is the next thing to follow this pattern. In the beginning HDR will be implemented poorly to where it taxes even the best video cards but the next gen. cards will run it better. Than HDR coding will then become cleaner and your current X800 would be able to run it fine but they will enable another feature such as SM3.0 which will not run on the X800 so you'll be forced to upgrade. See the pattern? Too bad there's nothing you can do about it.
February 17, 200520 yr i think hackers upgrade the game more efficiently than VALVe does...i use a 9600 ATI Radeon video card n wenever i play, if i set my fps_modem to 0, it freezes here n there, i always have to set my fps to 60...my comp has 1GB RAM which shouldnt be a problem
February 19, 200520 yr aight, i added a hl2dm hack cuz i thought, well its the same engine, so its same way easy =). maybe there r more fancy commands to rage with in hl2dm. so here we go: http://www.kung-foo.de/download/css_sv_cheats_mp_hack.zip http://www.kung-foo.de/download/hl2dm_sv_cheats_mp_hack.zip have fun raging. ps: manual included
February 19, 200520 yr in hl2dm u can use "perfui" to open an extra menu. there u can switch to wireframe mode: http://www.kung-foo.de/hl2dm.jpg
February 20, 200520 yr nimrod']in hl2dm u can use "perfui" to open an extra menu. there u can switch to wireframe mode: http://www.kung-foo.de/hl2dm.jpg u can also use perfui in css just type it before u enter the server and leave the window open then select wireframe in game and close the perfui window
February 21, 200520 yr where can we find an updated list of the source commands that are allowed when sv is enabled
February 21, 200520 yr Both the CSS and HL2DM sv_cheats freezers don't work for me. When they open up, they refresh and say sv_cheats is set to 0, even though it's 1 in game (I checked many times). I tried hitting freeze while it was 0 and joining a server, didn't work. What's wrong?
February 22, 200520 yr Both the CSS and HL2DM sv_cheats freezers don't work for me. When they open up, they refresh and say sv_cheats is set to 0, even though it's 1 in game (I checked many times). I tried hitting freeze while it was 0 and joining a server, didn't work. What's wrong? if ur gonna hack learn to do it yourself and not use other peoples you might be stupid/lazy and never used a memory editor before. This kinda thing is so easy to do that I think it is sad anyone uses a program to do it. Learn to so you dont need to rely on other people making cheats for you. Try learning to hack minesweeper first then try hacking into source games with those memory editors. I have used them for lots of games before and in fact it takes a matter of 2 seconds of actual work on your end to to this cheat
