Ръководства

Tell a cvar-caused kick, ban or crash apart from an ordinary crash, bisect the batch you just enabled, and keep a ReHLDS hardening baseline that does not punish real players.

Why CS 1.6 launches to a black screen, forcing a safe windowed mode and resolution from launch options, resetting a bad video config, and the 25th Anniversary update rollback.

How to read a Sys_Error crash line, the common variants like 'Couldn't get DLL API' and hunk overflow, and a method to find which module, DLL or plugin took the server down.

A disciplined bisection method for finding the AMXX or Metamod plugin that crashes your CS 1.6 server - reading the logs, halving plugins.ini, and confirming the culprit both ways.

A CS 1.6 server that segfaults the moment it starts on Linux: the usual causes — mismatched 64/32-bit binaries, a bad engine or game DLL, Metamod ordering — and how to isolate it.

A methodical process for a HLDS/ReHLDS server that dies silently: enabling the debug log, reading a core dump, and bisecting Metamod and AMXX plugins.

CS 1.6 closing instantly or crashing to desktop on launch — verify files, reset the video mode, clear bad launch options and custom content, and the Anniversary rollback.

What the game DLL is, why liblist.gam points at the wrong file, the Metamod hand-off that breaks the path, 32-bit and ReGameDLL mismatches, and reading the load error verbatim.

Why a containerized HLDS/ReHLDS server starts and stops within a second, the 32-bit library requirement, missing +map and console flags, tty/foreground issues, and reading the real crash from logs.

Keep a CS 1.6 server up 24/7: how hlds_run already restarts on crash, the -pingboost and -norestart flags, and a systemd unit or screen loop that survives a hard fault.

Why HLDS crashes with 'ED_Alloc: no free edicts', how to raise the edict pool with -num_edicts, and how to find the plugin or map that is leaking entities.