Add +map de_whatever to the command and the custom map will load and
therefore, start your mapcycle.
On 10/14/2012 12:07 PM, Paul Williams wrote:
Hi there. Yes, sorry was too tired to bother earlier. ZZzzz.
(Aside: I am still having trouble with mapcycle.txt seemingly being
ignored, but will look into that later. I took out all the standard
maps and have just one custom one. However it still seems to end up
back on the standard maps!?)
Anyway, with regards to the problems you folks helped me with yesterday:
The upshot was, as suggested by many, I should NOT use the GUI!! I
know, I was told, but I am a Windows man! The GUI told me how many
players, CPU use etc... Sigh
What really threw me was that it (Half-Life) was just simply missing
from the GUI options. That combined with the 'fail to start' of the
command line server (without start-up map!) made me think that there
was some corruption in my Valve directory somewhere.
Also being a noob, I did not realize I had to have the 'map
<whatever>' entry in server.cfg. I assumed it would just automatically
use mapcycle.txt and start at the beginning.
I am currently using a batch file to start the server. It just
contains: S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve. I read somewhere
it can be run as a Windows service? I am not really keen on having an
'oops-I-closed-it' server window that at a glance looks like a command
window. May look into writing a Windows Service wrapper for it in VB.NET.
Once I had got the server up and running I spent an age trying to get
'sv_downloadurl' to work, in order to have custom maps etc. download
at a decent speed.
It turns out Microsoft IIS gives a 404 error for file types which are
not in its known MIME type list.
In the end I just added a new MIME type with: Extension '*' - type
'application/octet-stream'.
Took me a while to realize this issue was IIS, I just assumed I had
done something wrong in the HLDS server config.
I think at some point I also had a missing trailing / on the url in
the server.cfg file. This MAY have also stopped it working. Hard to
remember with so many 'edit-try-edit-try' recursions!
Then, before I could leave it and go to bed, I just had to fiddle a
bit more. Here is the final server.cfg I ended up with. Any comments
welcome J
(Q. There was an RCON password setting in the GUI. Am I supposed to
have this set in the server.cfg now instead?)
//BEGIN
sv_aim 0
sv_clienttrace 3.5
pausable 0
sv_maxspeed 320
exec listip.cfg
exec banned.cfg
maxplayers 32
ip 91.235.58.128
map ag_crossfirexM
sv_cheats 0
hostname "BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server"
net_maxfilesize 99999
sv_allowupload 1
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_downloadurl "http://www.pencoedfarm.co.uk/hlserver/valve/";
sys_ticrate 800
sv_contact banzai...@live.co.uk
sv_maxrate 0
sv_region 3
hpk_maxsize 0
sv_send_logos 1
sv_filetransfercompression 1
sv_send_resources 1
//END
Cheers folks!
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