Garry's Mod Ten Dedicated Server (GMOD 10 DS)

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How To Run Garry's Mod Ten Dedicated Server (GMOD 10 DS) as a Windows Service with FireDaemon

Garry's Mod or GMod is a modification for the first-person shooter Half-life 2. It is a physics sandbox game that allows the player to manipulate objects and experiment with physics, with the realism provided by the Source engine. The dedicated server component can be run as a Windows Service using FireDaemon. FireDaemon will allow you to have the dedicated server start automatically at boot prior to login, allow you to start multiple instances of the dedicated server and so forth. This HOWTO will show you how set it up. You can also use FireDaemon Trinity or PanelDaemon to manage FireDaemon and other Windows services via a web browser.

GMOD Dedicated Server Setup Under FireDaemon

If you are deploying FireDaemon on Windows Vista or Server 2008 ensure you read this and this. Windows XP and Server 2003 users should read this.
[list=1][*]First download and install the HLDS Update Tool. It can be downloaded from here. The download is small (< 2 MB).[*]Download the GMOD server files via Valve's content servers. First before downloading the files, go to the directory where you installed the HLDS Update Tool. Create a shortcut to "HldsUpdateTool.exe". Next edit the properties of the shortcut and in the target box, at the end of it (with a space before the following), put:

-command update -game garrysmod -dir .

The target box should now look something like:

"C:\GMOD\HldsUpdateTool.exe" -command update -game garrysmod -dir .



Now click the shortcut you created and let it run (it might take a few hours to update everything). You should also run the shortcut every week or so to grab the latest server updates (stop your server first though).

Garry's Mod is also different than most other mods in that it uses HL2 episode 2 sdk, so you will find the game files in the subdirectory "orangebox" (Eg. "C:\GMOD\orangebox\garrysmod\")
[*]Download and install FireDaemon Pro into the directory of your choice (typically C:\Program Files\FireDaemon).[*]GMOD uses 1 configuration file to store it