I haven't been practising my machine spirit rituals...

[Battle Brother Arius]

Yeah, I am a little rusty on awakening the machine spirits so I am going to need a little bit of help.

This is what I have done so far:

-Unzipped files into sourcemods
-Copied the chunk of text into gameconfig.txt
-Moved gameconfig.txt into Ex folder in sourcemods

So now Exterminatus shows up in the Current Game bar in Source SDK.

This is where the problem lies, when I go to start up Hammer a box comes up that says:

The configuration information for the game you're trying to edit is invalid or missing.

So then I press "Run Anyway" and another box comes up that says:

Gameinfo.txt doesn't exist in $SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\ex\.

Now this is, for lack of a less elegant way of putting it, bullshit.

The file is in mentioned folder.  So I am wondering whether it has to go in a specific folder in the ex folder?

[ChromeAngel]

This is where the problem lies, when I go to start up Hammer a box comes up that says:

The configuration information for the game you're trying to edit is invalid or missing.
So then I press "Run Anyway" and another box comes up that says:

Gameinfo.txt doesn't exist in $SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\ex\.

Now this is, for lack of a less elegant way of putting it, bullshit.

The file is in mentioned folder.  So I am wondering whether it has to go in a specific folder in the ex folder?

Did you do the bit where it says "changing $SteamDir to the location of your steam folder and $SteamUserDir as above"?

That way you shouldn't have any instances of $SteamDir left in your gameconfig.txt for the SDK to complain about.

[Battle Brother Arius]

I do not believe I did do that.  How exactly would I go about performing said task?

[ChromeAngel]

I do not believe I did do that.  How exactly would I go about performing said task?

Right well first you need to know the path where steam is installed on your system (usually c:/program files/steam/ ), using the text editor you used top copy our chunk into your GameConfig.txt  replace all the occurrences of $SteamDir in your edited GameConfig.txt with that path (notepad has a replace function in the edit menu, which will make short work of this).

Secondly inside your steam folder is another folder called SteamApps inside that is another folder with your steam user name, you need to replace all the instances of $SteamUserDir with the path to that folder.  For example :

Code:

"Light"			"$steamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vrad.exe"

becomes

Code:

"Light"			"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Battle Brother Arius\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vrad.exe"

Finally re-save your GameConfig.txt and restart the Source SDK.  That should sort you out.