Talk:Game directory
Any idea how to deal with this vconfig error?
--wisemx 16:39, 11 Aug 2006 (PDT)
I'm having the exact same problem. A common bug, perhaps? --Andreasen 06:05, 26 Oct 2006 (PDT)
I ran into this problem too. Unfortunately, my attempt at a fix only gave me even less encouraging results: The "steam.dll" mentioned is located (typically) in your "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam" folder. I created a shortcut to VConfig and set the working directory to the one that steam.dll resides in (so Windows can find the dll when the app attempts to load it). This made the error go away, but nothing at all happens now. No GUI, no messages in console, nothing. I then added the "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam" directory to my PATH system variable (so Windows will always look for dlls in that dir when none are immediately found) and ran the executable directly, through Explorer and the console. Still nothing. Methinks support for this tool no longer exists? --Malfunction 09:42, 21 Nov 2006 (PDT)
- I informed mdurand of this and he will get this problem fixed ASAP...with this fix, Hammer will also be able to be started with a shortcut
- “ The fundamental problem is that our class for dealing with GameConfig.txt was made dependent on Steam.dll. This creates the necessity of having Steam.dll in the same directory as vconfig.exe. The problem is then made worse because our filesystem initialization code expects to find Steam user info in a directory underneath the first copy of Steam.dll that it finds in the directory structure working from the current directory up.