Tutoriels

Wire up AMX Mod X nextmap, timeleft and an end-of-map vote, add a working Rock The Vote, and set the extend and nomination cvars correctly.

The server-side rate cvars are a ceiling on what every client is allowed to use. Set them wrong and you either choke good connections or invite abuse. Here are the values that make sense.

CS 1.6 uses a 2003-era audio path that fights modern Windows audio. Here is the ordered checklist that fixes silent guns, missing footsteps and dead menus.

Three ways to hook the game from AMXX, what each one actually intercepts, their dependencies, and a decision rule for picking the right one.

Every reason RCON rejects your password on a CS 1.6 server - config overrides, the challenge/UDP path, ReHLDS lockouts, and sv_rcon ban settings - with the exact check for each.

Players ping fine to every other server but yours? The usual culprit is low server FPS or a CPU-starved VPS, not the network. How to diagnose and fix in-game ping.

Package a CS 1.6 dedicated server as a Docker container with the 32-bit runtime baked in, and get the UDP networking right so the master list can actually see it.

How to source CS 1.6 server files, plugins and mods without inheriting someone else's backdoor: trust SteamCMD and named GitHub orgs, and how to audit a suspicious .amxx.

Decode AMX Mod X 'Run time error 4: index out of bounds', read the debug trace to find the exact plugin and line, and fix the array bounds bug behind it.

Replace Valve's HLDS engine with ReHLDS on a Linux server: which files to copy, how to verify it loaded, and the compatibility traps with Metamod and ReGameDLL.

Install and configure a CS 1.6 dedicated server on Windows 10 or 11 with SteamCMD, including firewall rules, port forwarding and the errors specific to Windows.

What Xash3D FWGS clients are, how they connect to a GoldSrc server, why they need dproto or Reunion tolerance, and how to label or restrict them.