If you don’t know the username and password for your router you can look here or try ringing your internet service provider.

Next you need to get some numbers from your router, to do this you should be able to view your routers status online by typing the Default Gateway into the address bar of your internet browser of choice. You’ll want to write these down somewhere as you’ll need them later. In the big list of numbers you’re looking for 3 in particular IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway. Once cmd is open you need to type ipconfig /all. First thing to do is search for cmd in the Start Menu search bar. To set up a static IP you’ll first need some numbers pertaining to your computers current IP situation. Every device connected to your internet MUST have a different X. To run the server you need your computer set up so that its X never changes, and this is what a static IP is for. Each time your computer reconnects to the internet it will be given a new X, most of the time it may be the same X it had before, some times it will be different. An IP will usually be generated randomly for something connected to your internet, and will look something like 192.168.0.X, where X is a number from 1 to 254. The first thing you need to do is set up the computer you’ll be running the server from with a static IP. Setting up a Config File & Running the Server However feel free to comment or ask questions if you are unsure about anything and I’ll do my best to answer them or alter the guide accordingly.Ĥ. So detailed below are the steps I took to get a TF2 server running on Windows 7.īe warned: What I describe here is what I did to get my server working, I make no guarantees and take no responsibility for things going wrong or breaking due to the steps given here. I eventually got a server running and was able to play with a few of my friends, but it wasn’t an easy process as all the information to do it was either badly written, fragmented over multiple different websites or seemed to require a lot of prior knowledge.Īfter getting it to work I decided to write my own guide here for people who want to do the same thing but who, like me, had never really messed around with servers and IP’s and ports before. Machine game mode in TF2 (that I blogged about here) I decided to try and set up my on TF2 server in the hope of being able to play without having to wait in line with everyone else.

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