Comments on: Team Fortress 2 – Dedicated Server

By: hl2.exe

hl2.exe — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:50:40 +0000

Hi all. I’ve a problem: while i was setting the dedicated server I , as suggested by the tutorial, set sv_lan to 0(which means internet game) to let other people to join. But if i write in the console sv_lan it says that it is set to 0 but the server is a lan server.

By: free creds

free creds — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:40:29 +0000

I always heard about problems with the steam account. Some account get even hijacked? Do you still think it is wise to get a steam account, I am usually to lazy to get a game in a store, so I would prefere to download them. Or are there any other options.

By: Wytze

Wytze — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:52:00 +0000

Hard to say without any error report I guess. Make sure all your software is up-to-date and install some stable drivers is the best advice I can give at this point.

By: rip

rip — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:52:30 +0000

I fixed the console, now the lan works , but when somebody try to connect to me my game is shuting down and gives me a windows error , why ?

By: rip

rip — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:17:09 +0000

sorry .. the console doesnt work .. how do i fix this ?

By: Wytze

Wytze — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:58:52 +0000

If you know the ip and port the easiest way is to enable the console, press ~ and type connect :.

By: rip

rip — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:24:53 +0000

i got a question ,, i want to create a lan game on a small network but i dont got steam …how can other players from the network connect ? pls answer , i need steam to see a god damn lan server?

By: Wytze

Wytze — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:21:51 +0000

You will first need to retrieve your internet ip. (Use something like whatismyip.com)

You can then add the server by using the “Servers” screen in your steam account. After adding it and you configured your server and firewall/port forwarding ok it should show. You should be able to connect.

You could also try to use the connect command in the developer console. You need to enable this in the tf2 settings menu within the game. (settings->advanced->developer console) Once enabled you can press the ~ key to bring up the console. Type connect ‘serverip’ to check if the connection to your server is working ok.

Note: Remember that a server will never display directly in the server list as it might take some time to send the heartbeat signal to the master server. A heartbeat signal is sent once every five minutes to let the master server know that the server is still up and running.

By: bmd

bmd — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:52:25 +0000

Wytze you said “Have you tried adding/connecting the server with your internet-ip?
According to your image everything is working fine. So it is strange it doesn’t show in the list. I don’t know if icmp requests need to be enabled on the server so it might show up on the list. It is something I will have a look at.”

how do you add your server through ip or whatever, i seem to be having the same problem as inf. cheers and plz respond! :]

By: Wytze

Wytze — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:30:39 +0000

You have to run it in the directory where the hldsupdatetool.bin extracted the files.
Or you can give in the full path like /home/wytze/steam to run it.