Keep getting yourself killed early into the rounds and can't be bothered to watch the rest of the round play out but don't want to miss out on any action when a new round starts? Boy have I got the tool for you right here! This CS:GO Game State Integration program can tab you out of CS:GO automagically and into the procrastination activity of your choosing when you die, and back in to CS:GO when a new round begins.
You can create your own AutoHotkey scripts to decide what happens during your timeout from the game. If you download the binary build, it includes Netflix and Twitch potato programs that switch to resume your currently paused Netflix show or Twitch stream when you die and pause it before tabbing back to CS:GO when a new round starts.
MD5 signature of csgo-ccp-v1.1.0.zip: e56b77b9feeccffdf9aa51c218ed7636
You can use something like RapidCRC to verify the signature.
Scroll down for usage guide.
WARNING! Potato programs are likely to make assumptions on window titles and active windows. They search for windows based on their titles and emulate keyboard presses and mouse clicks on your system. For example the Netflix potato program will attempt to find a window starting with the title "Netflix", and emit keypresses and mouseclicks assuming that those peripheral inputs land on the browser window to resume/pause and enter/exit full screen mode.
This means that if you have multiple windows matching the search criterion or other programs running that pop up to foreground on their own, or you are simply doing something else manually when the potato programs run, it is possible to inadvertently feed input to the wrong window. This could cause you to e.g. click a button you don't want to click or send a message you don't want to send.
You can check all the source files and build them from source to make sure they work exactly (or as close to) as you'd expect.
Only use the program if you understand these pitfalls!
NOTE! Not tested on Community servers. Probably does not work. I also have no idea how this handles timeouts (they probably won't break anything but there is no functionality to tab out&in during opponent's timeout or anything).
Windows only at the moment due to AutoHotkey. If there is great demand from *nix users I might try to recreate this in Java (or some AHK equivalent for *nix). I built this on a 64-bit system, let me know if this doesn't work on 32-bit.
Comments, suggestions, error reports, and especially new potato scripts for HBO, Viaplay, YouTube, etc. in the form of push requests are more than welcome.
- Set up configurations in config.ini. If you need to change the server port, make sure to change it in gamestate_integration_csgo-ccp.cfg as well.
- Copy the gamestate_integration_csgo-ccp.cfg to your CS:GO config folder (normally Steam\SteamApps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\cfg).
- Prepare the requirements of the potato program you're using (see below).
- Build the .ahk AutoHotkey scripts into executables if you're running the programme from source and not the pre-built binaries.
- Run
csgo-ccp.bat(orpython csgo-ccp.pyunder src/ for the source version). - Run CS:GO and join a game.
- When you quit CS:GO, you can quit csgo-ccp with Ctrl+C.
- Set up configurations in src\potatoes\NetflixPotato.ini.
- Log into Netflix (I only tested on Chrome and Firefox).
- Pick a title to watch. Hit play and set it on pause.
- Leave the browser with the Netflix tab open.
Note! If you use Silverlight to play Netflix media, the playback will time out when left on pause for too long. When it does, Netflix potato doesn't know how to resume the playback anymore. The HTML5 player will not time out so I would suggest using that if possible.
- Set up configurations in src\potatoes\TwitchPotato.ini.
- Open up a Twitch stream in a browser (I only tested in Chrome). Make sure it's on a channel page and not on Twitch front page, i.e., the address should be twitch.tv/channelname.
- Make sure the area in which the video is playing reaches the middle of the window because the potato program will rely on clicking near the middle of the browser window to gain the video player's focus.
- Pause the stream and leave the browser tab with the Twitch channel open.
Note! I don't know how this functions with the Twitch HTML5 player. Maybe just fine?
You'll run a server program on your computer and tell your CS:GO client to send information from your game to the server. From that information the server will determine when you die and when a new round begins, and run programs at death and respawn. You can configure the exact potato program execution phases and which program to execute upon the forementioned events via a config file.
You can build your own potato programs by installing AutoHotkey and compiling AHK scripts. If you wish to modify the potato server itself you'll need Python 3.4 (later versions are not supported by py2exe) and cx_Freeze >= 4.3.4 or py2exe >= 0.9.2.2 for compiling the server.
- Potato programs: Right-Click on MyScript.ahk and choose Compile Script
- Potato server:
build_exe csgo-ccp.pyorcxfreeze csgo-ccp.py --target-dir dist -c -O -OO
If you encounter errors during potato server build, make sure you have py2exe
(build_exe.exe) installed in the correct Python version's Script folder and
that same folder in your Windows PATH. For example I have Python versions 2.7
and 3.4 installed, and I've named Python 3's executable to python3.exe, so I
installed py2exe via pip by calling python3 -m pip install py2exe. As for
cxfreeze make sure you have cxfreeze.bat file in your Python version's Script
folder. If not, you can generate that by running python cxfreeze-postinstall
(and possibly fixing the newly created .bat files if you have renamed your
Python executable).
v1.1.0 (2018-02-11): Added wingman
v0.1.1 (2016-03-27): First release
- Author: tsuriga, 2018
- License: MIT
-Are you a wizard? -Yes.