Srcds how to start without steam

[Lazybender]

i was wondering how u start srcds without steam?
and is it better to start without steam or with it?

[Hollanda]

You don't need steam for srcds (Source Dedicated server).

[hexitnow]

Do you have the standalone version of the SRCDS or are you using the one that comes with steam.

[Lazybender]

i don't know i just use the one in steam tools? how do i get standalone?

[hexitnow]

Ok thats the steam dedicated server....very very crappy. On the top of this page there is a button, "tutorials". Go to the one that says Install Windows for windows of course and install linux for linux. it walks you though step by step on how to download it and get it started. It does take a few hours tho as it's a lil over a gigabyte. You will be most pleased after it had finished. More pleased then with the steam one atleast. Any more questions just ask

[Lazybender]

i didn't know standalone is done using hldsupdatetool. i used hldsupdatetool before but when i got the standlone server it wouldn't start it had a error.

[hexitnow]

It is probably because the complete installation didnt finish or one of the files corrupted itself during the transfer. Both things do happen quite alot. It happened to me and I dont know how many times I had to close command prompt and had to type in
hldsupdatetool -command update -game "Counter-Strike Source" -dir C:\srcds
before i got the whole thing.

[Lazybender]

or maybe i moved it to the steam user account folder to replace the old source dedicated server

[hexitnow]

Well by default the hldsupdatetool will download the dedicated server to C:\srcds. If you hover over the download folder and it's less then 1 GB then the download quit somewhere during the process.

[Lazybender]

once i finished downloading can i move the folder

[Lazybender]

since i have standalone can i delted steam dedciated server in tools and the steam user folder file

[Drocona]

yes, they are not of any use when you ahve the standalone

and no don't move the folder, why would you want to do that anyways

[Lazybender]

well its in a diffrent hard drive i want to move it to another hard drive, y can't i anyway

[Drocona]

oh I thought u wanted to move it in the steam folder again >.<

you can move it to a different hard drive

[hexitnow]

+ to dro's post.
Just make sure that wen you move it you use the proper drive in the command prompt to start it.