dedicated server not starting

Question

I'm setting up CSGO dedicated server on a Windows 7 system.

I have followed the complete steps mentioned Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive_Dedicated_Servers.

But I'm stuck at the section "Starting the server". The error I get is:

command>> srcds not found.

I have updated the complete steamcmd with no errors. Why am I not able to start the server?

Answer 1

From the looks of your error, it seems like you're still in SteamCMD. Did you quit SteamCMD and return to the/open a command prompt before running srcds? srcds is a separate program, not a command within SteamCMD.

You'll need to open a standard Windows command prompt (not a SteamCMD prompt), change to the directory where srcds is, and enter the srcds command. (You could also use a .bat file to launch it, but that's another layer you may not want to introduce at this point...)