Doctor Offline. Languages: English. Guide Index. Initial Setup. Installing the Dedicated Server. Starting the Server. Configuring the Server. Portforwarding The Dreadful Section. Extra Help. Creating Your Install Folder Before you download anything, I first recommend that you already have in mind where you wish to install the necessary files for your server.
SteamCMD can be downloaded here. I will only be using the Windows version and cannot confirm if this guide will work on any other OS. Lastly, extract the contents of the. This is normal. After updating, you will be met with a blank command line. You are ready to continue to the next section!
Connecting to the Valve Servers Before the server is downloaded, you must connect to the Valve servers so all the server content may be requested and downloaded. To connect to the servers, you must login. There are two ways to login: Anonymously or with your Steam account. Anonymously is usually the best and quickest, but does not always work. Downloading the server.
First you need to tell SteamCMD where we wish to install the garrysmod server. This is the same folder you created at the beginning. Simply leave the terminal running. When this is finished you will see the message "Success! App '' fully installed.
The most important file in there is srcds. By itself, this file cannot do much. This is why we will create a. Creating the. Here is a quick video on how to turn them on. This video was NOT created by me. Background Info Configuring your server can be just as important as getting it to start.
This section will try to be as detailed as possible to ensure you can customize your server any way you want to.
Configuring the server involves the internal settings and basic admin addons that may be useful. Locating the Server Configuration File Inside of your server folder, the same one as srcds. This is where a lot of the configuration will be done inside. If you are using a file structure similar to mine.
Setting Up the Configuration There is a great website tool that will generate a server. I will not be going over all of these settings, however there are some that are very crucial to ensuring a smooth playing experience. Important Settings: Hostname : This is what your server will be called. RCON Password : If you want to change settings on your server ingame, set a password so other players cannot do this. It means the server will be visible publicly.
I recommend setting the minimum the highest, and if it is still not enough. When you copy the settings over manually change it to a higher number. Leave them alone, but if you lag because it is too high, change max to After you have finished choosing your settings, hit "Generate" at the bottom. You do not need to download anything, simply copy over the text that was generated into your server. Background Info Portforwarding is always the section where the most people have issues.
It is not really a hard concept to understand, and while some people genuinely have issues, it is just a matter of knowing how to access your router. Accessing Your Router To access your router, you will need to know your default gateway. This is IP of your router. You can find the gateway IP for your router using Command Prompt.
Type in the command " ipconfig " You may see many things come up, however most likely one one will have the IP next to Default Gateway. In my case, my default gateway is My IPv4 address is This site will tell you the default login and gateway IP for your router. You will most likely have to login. By default, the ports that all source games use are usually in the range.
Because of this, it is good to forward ports in that range. Note : If your router only supports single port forwarding, you can just forward and be fine.
Create a new forwarding setting, on some routers there will be no button and you just enter into boxes. That works the same way. When creating the new forward, it will ask for a local IP.
This is the same local IP that I had you copy down earlier when you found the default gateway as well. For the sake of convenience, you can just copy my settings in the picture above click the picture to make it bigger.
Remember to hit apply! Your router may restart. NOTE: Some routers may require an extra step like mine. Hello There, Guest! Login Register. Login Username: Password: Lost Password?
Remember me. Thread Modes. Cybercub Junior Member. Posts: 21 Threads: 9 Joined: Jul Reputation: 0. I created a server and people joined so that means its multiplayer was working. So then there was no Server. Untill the next day i get errors about a cash file, which i think was server. And now it has no error, but the server is still not on the server list and no one can join because of the "Server is not responding" problem.
I really need help. Operating system: windows 7 Game: Garry'smod server. Nevermind guys i removed the "quotes" and it fixed it's self. There is now no reason to reply.
Please help. Posts: 1 Threads: 0 Joined: May Reputation: 0. Please help Try changing the override gamemode. I just discovered these forums today.
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