How do you reset the played chapters back to beginning?

[HotSh0t_]

When starting a new game you obviously can't proceed to the next chapter, however, I loaded chapter 5 using the changelevel command as I use it to benchmark my framerate. I'd like to know to to reset back to a state where the background menu is of the first level and the game doesn't show that all five chapters have been played already.

Is it a simple matter of deleting some sort of config file and verifying the cache to rebuilt it?

[XenoSpyro]

Why does it matter what the background level is? You can't do anything in it. Hell I would settle with not loading a BG level at ALL to quicken the load times.

[Dunnerski]

Why do you care what level he wants the background to be? He came asking for help not your criticism. I'll find out if a certain command works for you hotshot_.

Try,
sv_unlockedchapters 1
In console

[Leushenko]

Originally Posted by XenoSpyro

I would settle with not loading a BG level at ALL to quicken the load times.

Easily done. Pass -dev as one of the command line options to the game on launch, according to this: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/...d_Line_Options

Have yet to test this myself, but I know it can be done because I found some solution a few years back.

[HotSh0t_]

Originally Posted by Dunnerski

Try,
sv_unlockedchapters 1
In console

Thank you, this did it.