- #Counter strike conditional zero install#
- #Counter strike conditional zero code#
- #Counter strike conditional zero windows#
Condition Zero features a multiplayer mode, which features updated character models, textures, maps, and other graphical tweaks. The game was released in 2004 via both retail stores and Steam and uses the GoldSrc engine. Such nonsense has no right to exist on end user systems.Counter-Strike: Condition Zero ( CS:CZ) is a first-person shooter video game and the sequel to the original Counter-Strike. It is this ill-conceived combination of an ill-conceived, legacy DOS calling convention with an ill-conceived hippie idea (it's Apple's fault! 1) of spaces in path names which precipitates errors like yours.ġ Yes I know, spaces (and other funny characters) in path names have been around before apple's adoption but no sane *nix user would voluntarily name a folder "Program Files". Programmatically calling one binary from another, by contrast, does not have that issue: The caller simply fills an array of arguments before the exec call, serving single arguments to the callee on a silver platter. You may know such troubles from your favorite *nix shell: How do I again pass an argument that contains quotes? The user shell is the only program in the *nix world that needs to parse command lines.
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Additionally, an entire equivalence group in the module tests was missed. In your case, quoting the path argument was forgotten: a bug in the game. As a side issue, there is no guarantee that the callee handles quotes at all! Don't quote parameters gratuitously.
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The quotes are part of the command line passed to the callee! For a discussion, see this Microsoft article. Separating arguments is simply not an issue.) Typical conventions separate command line arguments by spaces consequently, single arguments that contain spaces must be quoted. (The *nix family of operating systems, by contrast, passes a set of single arguments to the callee, corresponding to argv. The callee gets the entire command line as one single string.
#Counter strike conditional zero windows#
The underlying issue is that under Windows the callee is responsible for parsing the command line. It was in the era where 8.3 length filenames were still very common. There's no video called Half without extension nor does it understaned the Life\intro.avi as parameter as the videoplayer does not recognize it. ^ path to videoplayer (the space may break here too) Now lets say you have Half Life as foldername: C:\Games\Half Life\bin\videoplayer.exe /video C:\Games\Half Life\intro.avi When you start an external program, for example a video player, the video player may have its argument list as follows (this is an example) C:\Games\HalfLife\bin\videoplayer.exe /video C:\Games\HalfLife\intro.avi In Windows, when you work with paths, you either type it as such: C:\My_Path_without_spaces
#Counter strike conditional zero code#
Sounds like a bug in the game where the code opens video without quotes and as such part of the video path is assumed to be a parameter where it really isn't, resulting in an error, and thus the video never plays. avi files only.Ĭan there any particular reason for it? Is it because of some Firewall/Antivirus/UAC protection and rules? I would ask it on gaming SE network, but I strongly feel this weird behavior is just because of space in main folder name and related to those. avi files or some Windows feature forces the game to not play those files - whenever there are space(s) in folder name. Looks like either the game tries to avoid.
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The game installs properly in both cases but videos play only in 2nd case i.e., MyFolderName. The game launch hl.exe file has path: C:\My Folder Name OR C:\MyFolderName Those video files have this path: C:\My Folder Name\czero\media OR C:\MyFolderName\czero\media And it confirmed that those intro videos won't play if the folder name has any spaces. Few with folder name with spaces, and few without spaces. To confirm if this is the exact reason, I tried at least 15 times installation of this game with different named folders.
#Counter strike conditional zero install#
If I remove and install game again in C:\Folder Name the game works fine except that those 2 intro videos won't play at launch. avi extensions).īut a pretty weird behavior I noticed. Whenever I install it in a folder like C:\FolderName and launch the game after intallation, the game starts with 2 intro videos (I found those videos inside game installation folder, both have. I have Counter Strike: Condition Zero game.