How to make a Counter Strike 1.6 Dedicated server What do we need ? HLDSupdatetool -> http://www.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.exe NoSteamPatcher -> http://www.gameszone.ro/pages/refferer.php?file=no-won-steam.zip&refferer= AdminMod + MetaMod -> http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ StatsMe -> http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Step 1 Create a dir were the server will be installed example C:\HLDS Open hldsupdatetool.exe, click next , then I agree we will get to the destination folder, here we press browse and select Local Disk C , then double click the HLDS folder. OK finish the steps Step 2 click Start , then Run , type "cmd" , in the command line type cd C:\hlds Step 3 if you se in the command line C:\hlds , type hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game valve -dir . what this does ? it just start downloading in to the server directory all the latest files needed by the server to run it will download the latest server aplication. After you se "HLDS installation up to date" in the command prompt we will install the Counter Strike mod for the server Like before at C:\hlds type hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game cstrike -dir . after the mod is downloaded the message "HLDS installation up to date Patching the server to accept Non Steam Clients: Open no-won-steam.zip wich you have downloaded extract everything in C:\HLDS Server CFG In C:\HLDS\cstrike there is a server.cfg file open it with wordpad delete everything in it and paste the following cvars: code:
At <HOSTNAME> we can type anything we what example "Jack's Counter-Strike Server" <PASSWORD> is the rcon password for the admin to the server it is used to remote control the server. Installing Admin Mod We have downloaded earlyer halflife-admin-2.50.60-win.zip wich we will extract it anywere and double click on install_admin.vbs after wich it will ask us where to install. You will se diferent targets , we are interested in C:\HLDS so we type the number of the target, it will ask us what mod to install we are interesated in cstrike. OK and that's about it. Installing StatsMe we downloaded statsme-2.8.3-cstrike.zip extract everything in C:\HLDS\cstrike Go to C:\HLDS\cstrike\addons\metamod open plugins.ini with wordpad and here add the next line on top of the existing one : Code: win32 addons\statsme\dlls\statsme_mm.dll Go to C:\HLDS\cstrike\addons\statsme open statsme.cfg with wordpad At sm_menupassword modify r3wt with an other password (it's a must! or something won't work) to make de /rank and /top10 work open the same statsme.cfg at sm_storebyauth put 0 instead of 1 How to start the server using less resources make a shorcut for C:\HLDS\hlds.exe on the desktop on the desktop click the properties of the shortcut you will se at the target C:\HLDS\hlds.exe we will just add this line ( note ! leav a space between C:\HLDS\hlds.exe and the code) Code: -console -game cstrike +ip External IP +sv_lan 1 +maxplayers +map de_dust2 -nomaster example of target: C:\HLDS\hlds.exe -console -game cstrike +ip 69.69.123.231 +sv_lan 1 +maxplayers 22 +map de_dust2 -nomaster To start the server just double click the shortcut hlds.exe This is the basic Dedicated Server with Admin Mod and StatME
