Game Settings Have Suddenly Been Changed (Admin Slowhacking)

Article ID: 1935-TIHK-2325

Admin Slowhacking refers to a server administrator maliciously altering the game configuration files on a client's computer. If you believe you have been slowhacked, you can resolve the issue by locating and deleting the config.cfg in your game directory.

For example, the config.cfg for Counter-Strike can be found at:

 <Steam Installation Directory>\steamapps\<username>\counter-strike\cstrike\config.cfg

• Find the config.cfg for your game
• Open the file with Notepad
• If your file has an entry for developer 1 change it to developer 0
• Save and close the file
• Right-click on the config.cfg file and select Properties
• Check the Read-Only checkbox and click OK

Many servers require the ability to run server commands on client machines, so disabling the Console is generally a better idea if you wish to play on widest variety of available servers.

Best Practice

If you alter your configuration significantly from its default state, it is best practice to do so by creating a userconfig.cfg in the same directory as your config.cfg. Your game will load the config.cfg and then execute your userconfig.cfg. This allows you to specify any changes from your default configuration in a separate file that cannot be altered by server administrators. Setting values in a userconfig.cfg follows the same syntax as with a config.cfg