Deticated server
- Thread starter NFC
- Start date
There is a server dll, it's included with the main download.
- Admin
- #3
If there wasn't, he wouldn't be able to make a listen server either. So I suspect his issue is more not knowing how to make an HLDS. 
With Steam, you gotta make a seperate install for your dedicated server, unless you use their GUI HLDS, which cannot be auto-restarted. I've not tried it, but I've been suspecting it *may* be possible to put the HLDS system in the top folder of your client, and use your client files to host your DS files the easy way you could before Steam came along, but I've not dared. Thus far, I've stuck to their recommended "eat up all my HD space" meathod, that essentially means keeping two copies of half-life and all your mods on your drive.
I'd link you Steam's incomplete HLDS tutorial, but the system they use to link is so non-standard, and generates links so long, the forum can't handle them. Suffice to say go to http://www.steampowered.com, go to support, and search for HLDS, and they'll tell you half of what you need to know.
Short version: you'll need to get the files for the stand alone HLDS and stick them somewhere. You will need to copy the Valve folder from your Half-Life.GCF to that folder (you will need GCF scape to do this). The HLDS updater may get the files you need and do this for you, but you will have to, essentially, download Half-Life again if you take that routue.
To get it to auto restart, see this ancient thread.
If you have the Enhanced version of MS, you will want to use a batch file more like this one, instead, to take advantage of the crash recovery feature (make sure Windows error reporting is disabled.):
After you've done all that, you can copy your MS folder to that same folder, and THEN, with luck, you can run a dedidcated server.
Don't blame MS, blame Steam - this is the same procedure required to start a stand-alone HLDS with any HL game now.
__________
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Jim Harkins
Saint Thoth
With Steam, you gotta make a seperate install for your dedicated server, unless you use their GUI HLDS, which cannot be auto-restarted. I've not tried it, but I've been suspecting it *may* be possible to put the HLDS system in the top folder of your client, and use your client files to host your DS files the easy way you could before Steam came along, but I've not dared. Thus far, I've stuck to their recommended "eat up all my HD space" meathod, that essentially means keeping two copies of half-life and all your mods on your drive.
I'd link you Steam's incomplete HLDS tutorial, but the system they use to link is so non-standard, and generates links so long, the forum can't handle them. Suffice to say go to http://www.steampowered.com, go to support, and search for HLDS, and they'll tell you half of what you need to know.
Short version: you'll need to get the files for the stand alone HLDS and stick them somewhere. You will need to copy the Valve folder from your Half-Life.GCF to that folder (you will need GCF scape to do this). The HLDS updater may get the files you need and do this for you, but you will have to, essentially, download Half-Life again if you take that routue.
To get it to auto restart, see this ancient thread.
If you have the Enhanced version of MS, you will want to use a batch file more like this one, instead, to take advantage of the crash recovery feature (make sure Windows error reporting is disabled.):
Code:
@echo off
cls
title MS HLDS Restart
echo (%date% %time%) hlds started.
:hlds
start /wait /ABOVENORMAL hlds.exe -tos -game ms +maxplayers 10 -port 27016 -noipx -console +exec crashed.cfg
echo (%date% %time%) WARNING: hlds crashed or closed, restarting.
goto hldsAfter you've done all that, you can copy your MS folder to that same folder, and THEN, with luck, you can run a dedidcated server.
Don't blame MS, blame Steam - this is the same procedure required to start a stand-alone HLDS with any HL game now.
__________
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Jim Harkins
Saint Thoth
- Thread starter
- #4
2 Things:
What is the entire command line you are trying to use?
What other extensions are you trying to load?
What is the entire command line you are trying to use?
What other extensions are you trying to load?
- Thread starter
- #6
This
@echo off
cls
title MS HLDS Restart
echo (%date% %time%) hlds started.
:hlds
start /wait /ABOVENORMAL hlds.exe -tos -game ms +maxplayers 10 -port 27016 -noipx -console +exec crashed.cfg
echo (%date% %time%) WARNING: hlds crashed or closed, restarting.
goto hlds
And then after that i am using the standard stuff that was inculded with the install
@echo off
cls
title MS HLDS Restart
echo (%date% %time%) hlds started.
:hlds
start /wait /ABOVENORMAL hlds.exe -tos -game ms +maxplayers 10 -port 27016 -noipx -console +exec crashed.cfg
echo (%date% %time%) WARNING: hlds crashed or closed, restarting.
goto hlds
And then after that i am using the standard stuff that was inculded with the install
- Admin
- #7
Judging by your screenshot (I was hesitant to paste that into the browser, given the name of the BMP), you've some idea what you're doing. Although, I wouldn't bother with Serverdoc. I've been trying to make the empty server -> periodic quit thing work with Serverdoc, but the plugin doesn't seem to like Metamod-P that's used with MS 1.35.
As for what's wrong, I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be "not finding stuff" suggesting that maybe the Valve subfolder isn't decompressed as a subfolder where your HLDS.EXE and batch file are.
(Squints around corners of your windows at your desktop some more)
AMX doesn't need to be, and indeed, shouldn't be installed if you are using the Enhancement Package. Its AMX is all setup and ready to go with AMX and the various MS specific plugins included. There are complications that can occur if you try to do it yourself.
So, in short, my best guesses are Valve folder not there, or faulty AMX install. Suggestions: make sure Valve folder is decompressed at same level as MS folder, and/or delete MS folder, and place a new copy of MS in the same place with the Enhancement Package installed (but with nothing else).
__________
"Away from home, no quote file available. :/"
Saint Thoth
As for what's wrong, I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be "not finding stuff" suggesting that maybe the Valve subfolder isn't decompressed as a subfolder where your HLDS.EXE and batch file are.
(Squints around corners of your windows at your desktop some more)
AMX doesn't need to be, and indeed, shouldn't be installed if you are using the Enhancement Package. Its AMX is all setup and ready to go with AMX and the various MS specific plugins included. There are complications that can occur if you try to do it yourself.
So, in short, my best guesses are Valve folder not there, or faulty AMX install. Suggestions: make sure Valve folder is decompressed at same level as MS folder, and/or delete MS folder, and place a new copy of MS in the same place with the Enhancement Package installed (but with nothing else).
__________
"Away from home, no quote file available. :/"
Saint Thoth
- Thread starter
- #8
Similar threads
