Console issue in Source games

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I've googled for this, but I guess "can't type in console" is too ambiguous :)

In all my Source games, eg HL2, TF2, CS:S..

If I bring down the console using tilde, the console then instantly closes the second I start to type into it. If I bring the console down again, the first letter from my previous attempt remains in the command box.

Anywho, anyone have any ideas, or anyone else experienced this?
 
Have you tried launching the games with -console in the launch options? It will start the game with the console launched already.
 
I already know about that, but cheers :)
Used to use it when I had a lesser setup to shorten menu load times.

It's mid-game, if I want to, say, show average fps, that I get the issue.
 
Well I don't know about a permanant fix but you can bind keys to things like showing FPS if you need that functionality using bind <key> function for example bind k net_graph 1 for the network and FPS stats in TF2.
 
uvmain said:
surely I'd need to type the bind in the console? ;)
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Yeah, I thought you could get it when you launched the game using -console though? It doesn't matter though because you can always enter it into the autoexec config which you can create at:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\STEAMNAME\team fortress 2\tf\cfg\autoexec.cfg

It will bind the keys everytime you run that game then.
 
For some reason, the source console doesn't play nice with non-US keyboards. Why they haven't fixed this in 5 years I can't imagine. Perhaps it amuses Gabe Newell to recieve emails from enraged german 12 year olds...:rolleyes:

There are two ways around this

1/ Set your keyboard location setting to US in windows, via control panel regional settings.

or

2/ Each time you open the console, type a vowel then hit backspace, then you can continue typing.
 
CrowK said:
For some reason, the source console doesn't play nice with non-US keyboards. Why they haven't fixed this in 5 years I can't imagine. Perhaps it amuses Gabe Newell to recieve emails from enraged german 12 year olds...:rolleyes:

There are two ways around this

1/ Set your keyboard location setting to US in windows, via control panel regional settings.

or

2/ Each time you open the console, type a vowel then hit backspace, then you can continue typing.
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eh? works fine with my uk keybord :confused:

Obviusly console is ` instead of ~ though.
 
I have the same problem. Whenever I open console I hit a and then backspace and type what I want. It's very odd and I only found out after typing random letters. I noticed that whenever I typed a it didn't close so I just used that fix.
 
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