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How to Make the Screenshot for an Overview

November 29, 2005 - by Egir Helgrimson

Since steam came out, the trivial part of taking this screenshot sudently became non-trivial. This tutorial will guide you through all the details to the point where you have the screenshot. The rest hasn't changed since counter-strike 1.5.

When you launch steam you will see this window.

Open the menu View and select My Games.

No right click on Counter-Strike and choose Properties.

In the Properties window click the button Set launch options.

Type in -dev <yourmapname> similar to the example below and then click Ok

When your map has been loaded, bring down the console by using the ~ key (on Danish keyboards this is ½ §). In the console type dev_overview 1.

Now something similar to the screenshot below will accour.

By now you should be able to follow most old tutorials on how to make an overview for counter-strike maps. Here is a list of tutorials telling you how to do that: