Tutorials

Members of counter-strike-boost.com can play CS 1.6 in their browser. If your server kicks them with "Is Not Valid Auth (9)" or "STEAM validation rejected", here is the exact setting to change for ReAuthCheck, ReUnion, plain HLDS and dproto.

CS 1.6 in the browser loads but never connects, or says our relays cannot be reached from your network? It is almost always your internet provider's DNS. Switch to Cloudflare DNS in two clicks and play.

ReChecker kicking your regulars? Stop the kicks in a minute, prove ReChecker is the cause, then rebuild resources.ini from real player hashes so only cheats trip it.

Steam players hear each other but non-Steam players are silent, one-way or robotic? Walk the ReVoice chain from the server stack to the client and find the exact link that breaks.

A balanced comparison of running a CS 1.6 server on Windows or Linux: performance, the ReHLDS stack, cost, security, tooling, and a clear recommendation for each situation.

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.

What AMX Mod X really prints when a module or plugin comes from a different release than the core, how to read the versions on your server, and how to line up 1.8.2, 1.9 and 1.10 so it stops.

Read the real AMX Mod X error, find which plugin and which module it is about, and fix the actual cause: a missing cstrike file, a module that failed to load, the wrong build, or a CS plugin on a server that is not Counter-Strike.

Find out why an AMX Mod X nVault file lost its data, check the file, recover it without making things worse, and stop it happening again with backups, pruning and SQLite.

Install and secure MariaDB on Debian or Ubuntu for AMX Mod X plugins, choose a same-host or separate-host setup, lock port 3306 to your game server, and back it up with mariadb-dump and cron.

Install ReChecker, write resources.ini rules that check client file hashes, and avoid kicking legitimate players by mistake.

AMX Mod X has no built-in per-plugin profiler by default, so here is the honest toolkit: bisection with amxx pause, reading meta list and stats, and isolating the plugin that is dragging your fps down.