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I previously had a dedicated server up and running a couple of months ago, and yesterday i decided to do it again. But after following your and many other tutorials, redownloading the files repeatedly, and trying anything else i can think of, i simply cannot get it to run srcds.exe. When i click on the icon i get an hourglass cursor for a second, then it vanishes. In task manager the srcds.exe process is only displayed for less than a second, then vanishes. Running the server through the command line simply does nothing, and returns a prompt immediately. I am fairly sure it is not the switches i am using to start it, since not even the gui will show up. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Double clicking will do nothing.
You have to make a start-up command.
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Yeah you have to make a shortcut to it or make a batch file.
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im pretty sure you have to have -ip blah and -map blah
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You need map dont need ip though.
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get rid of the IP, you dont need it. You should also have maxplayers. This is my startup line:
-game cstrike -console -secure -maxplayers 20 +fps_max 600 +map glassquadtowers_big -port 27015 -tickrate 100
Just change the map to a dod source one.
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Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, that didn't work either. I copied your exact line, changing only the map and the game, and it failed. Same problem as before, nothing happened. Any other suggestions? And once again, thank you for your help.
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Did you try updating with -verify_all ?
Are any mods installed?
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When you download the server files, what command line did you use?
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