Running a Gmod server from my Home PC

[Flazer210]

I've been trying for countless days now on trying to run a Gmod dedicated server through srcds from my Home Desktop. I honestly have never done this before and in fact, have absolutely no clue what I'm doing.

I've looked through countless tutorials, only to have them fail me. Just as I was about to give up, I came across this forum. I'm hoping that I can get some help from this community, Instead of looking to Facepunch, who offered no help whatsoever. (Like you didn't see this coming.)

I've read about all of the setup things needed to do with getting all the proper materials and such in place. The one problem is with the fact that I don't know if srcds ran or not, I run the batch file that I have in place and all it does is run the exe, and then closes.
This is the batch file I've been using:

Code:

@echo off
cd c:\srcds
echo Starting game server.
srcds.exe -console -game garrysmod +map gm_construct +maxplayers 10
echo Started Garry's Mod Dedicated Server

I am in desperate need of help. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading even if aren't going to respond.


Also, Don't point me to the thread about Running a Dedicated Server from Home. I've read it already.

[trewq]

Have you forwarded your ports?

[Flazer210]

Yes, I have no problem with my ports. I've ran this before on HL2: DM with absolutely no problem, but it won't work for Gmod.

[Mooga]

If nothing happens when you run that script, it's likely that the server is not installed within the c:\srcds folder.

What command did you use to install the server?

[Flazer210]

This is where I may have messed up, I extracted everything from the GCF Folder because I didn't feel like waiting for it to download. But I've went and tried using the GUI Version from Steam and have gotten the server running, only to find that It won't let me connect with "STEAM Validation Rejected". I know the GUI Version is in fact, horrible, but I've not the patience for using the Console version.

[trewq]

(09-07-2010, 08:36 PM)Flazer210 Wrote:  This is where I may have messed up, I extracted everything from the GCF Folder because I didn't feel like waiting for it to download. But I've went and tried using the GUI Version from Steam and have gotten the server running, only to find that It won't let me connect with "STEAM Validation Rejected". I know the GUI Version is in fact, horrible, but I've not the patience for using the Console version.

The console version doesn't take that much effort... Also to fix your errors just install the server to that directory but add -verify_all to the end of the command and it will make sure everything is right and fix it if its not.

[Flazer210]

This is so confusing now. Do you install to C:\Srcds\Orangebox or just C:\Srcds?

[Beaverbeliever]

C:\srcds

[Flazer210]

Thank you. Everything is in working order now, thanks so much for your help guys.

[Beaverbeliever]

No problem. Consider marking this as resolved, and adding rep to people who helped!