Tutorials

How the CS 1.6 engine reads mapcycle.txt, how it picks the next map, and the per-map config hook and common traps that quietly break a rotation.

Server FPS is the tick loop rate, not the client frame rate. Here is how to read the real number from the HLDS console, over RCON, and under load.

You click a server, the download bar stalls or errors, and you drop out with 'Missing map'. Here is why it happens and how to actually get onto the server.

How AMXX game events work, the read-flags and condition strings that filter them, and why register_event_ex is the modern, type-checked replacement.

Why your AMX Mod X plugins report 'bad load' after an upgrade, how to tell a Metamod failure from an AMXX one, and the module mismatch that causes almost all of it.

Your server.cfg edits are ignored? It is almost always the execution order or the hidden .txt extension. Here is the exact sequence the engine reads and how to make settings stick.

Install Reunion on a ReHLDS server so both Steam and non-Steam clients can connect, and set the SteamIdHashSalt correctly so it actually loads.

Install the Zombie Plague mod on a CS 1.6 server: the AMXX modules it needs, where the plugin, config, models and sounds go, and the precache errors that break it.

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.

A complete, current walkthrough for installing a Counter-Strike 1.6 dedicated server on a Linux VPS with SteamCMD, including the 32-bit libraries HLDS still needs.