dtugend
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10 years ago How did you end up with snapshot being bound to pause in the first place? By default pause should be bound to pause the game (singleplayer) and F5 should be bound to snapshot.
I am guessing it's an issue with your config files.
Please check your config files in the valve* (valve, valve_addon, ...) folders:
- make sure that config.cfg in these folders is not write protected, ideally there should be only one config.cfg in the valve folder.
- make sure that userconfig.cfg does not rebind the keys! again there should be only one userconfig.cfg in the valve folder.
You might have some strange script that aliases s.th. that gets executed now and then and causes the keys to be rebound.
I tested on Windows XP and Windows 7 64 bit and could not reproduce your problem (can bind and unbind pause key just fine). As said I am guessing it's an issue with your config and would happen on any platform.
Mecha-Weasel
I had not played HL1 in a while (many months), so not sure when this started. In my case this is being experienced with a Windows HL1 client install (on 64-Bit Windows-7). Whenever I unbind "snapshot" and try to bind it to another key, the interface (for keyboard options) shows it is bound correctly, as does the console. However, the functionality does not move with the bind.
For example if I bind KP_5 to "snapshot", pressing KP_5 does not take a screen-capture. It does nothing. However even if I unbind it from "pause" ("unbind pause", or just bind something else to "pause") pressing the pause key continues to initiate the taking of a screen-capture.
Not sure if other GoldSrc-based games are effected, or just HL1 itself.