maccrawinthejaw

So my .bat launch file works and I get past the error of being stuck in the server browser, but I'm then stuck in an endless splash screen that looks like this. I hear the wind blowing and crickets chirping in the background but it's just this image, and the loading wheel in the upper right doesn't actually spin.

The instance ID is the same though. 1 in both the .bat I use, the Steam custom launch options, and in the serverDZ.cfg file. By the way, do I need all of this stuff in the file (if so, am I able to copy/paste what you wrote?)? EDIT: Tried it from the Steam launcher; same shit. Going to try from a .bat.

I'm having yet another problem with this game after years of inactivity - my newly created server shows up on the server browser list, however when I try pressing connect, absolutely nothing happens. What makes no sense is that I was able to kind of connect to it when I first made it, except it was just an endless splash screen. What gives? What's the solution to this problem?

I'm having a hard time setting up a server because I don't know if a "serverdz.cfg" file was supposed to have been downloaded with the server tools on Steam (I validated and it still isn't in there) or if I'm supposed to create it myself, and if so, I don't know what I'm supposed to put in it.