It’s here for the sake of legacy support if Valve ever decides to add it. Valve has not implemented this in Windows so you will have to manually update HLDS/Team Fortress Classic. “-autoupdate” Enables auto update of the server.You can change “2fort” to whatever map you want. “+map” loads a specified map on server startup.You can remove this command if you do not want to use VAC. “-secure” enables VAC (Valve Anti Cheat) protection of your server.The server can only be automatically restarted in text based mode. "-console” enables text base server display.console -game tfc -secure +map 2fort -autoupdate +log on +maxplayers 32 -port 27015 +ip 1.2.3.4 -zone 1024
Here’s the full parameter list you should have: For the purposes of this HOWTO, the path is C:\HLDS. Working Directory: The directory containing your hlds.exe file. For the purposes of this HOWTO, the path is C:\HLDS\hlds.exe. Note the required parameters.Įxecutable: The path to your hlds.exe file. Adjust the paths to suit your installation. Click on the "Create a new service definition" button in the toolbar (or type Ctrl+N) and enter the information into the fields as you see below. Next start the FireDaemon GUI from the desktop shortcut. Now download and install FireDaemon Pro into the directory of your choice, typically C:\Program Files\FireDaemon. Go ahead and edit this file to suit your preferences. You can find it in “tfc\server.cfg” in the directory where you installed the server. Team Fortress Classic uses one configuration file to store its settings.
You should also run the shortcut every week or so to grab the latest server updates. It might take a few hours to update everything. Now click the shortcut you created and let it run to download the Team Fortress Classic server files. The target box should now look something like: "C:\HLDS\HldsUpdateTool.exe" -command update -game tfc -dir.