Counter-Strike (From Beta 6.5 to Release 1.5) (WON2)

Installation

1. Install Half-Life 1 (Retail)
2. Update your game to version 1.1.1.0 (the last update before VALVe moved to their STEAM interface)
3. Download the releases of Counter-Strike you desire below inside the root folder of Half-Life.

Alternatively, you can download this archive on MEGA which contains Half-Life 1 already patched to version 1.1.1.0 as well as containing all major builds of Counter-Strike (Beta 6.6, 7.1, Retail 1.0, Retail 1.1, Retail 1.3, Retail 1.5).

Versions of Counter-Strike's betas supported in HL 1.1.1.0

This table is adapted from the CounterStrike Betas repository on Github.

Create a Server

Using Docker

You can create a server using Docker by using my GitHub project. More informations on how to run it are inside the project.

Using Windows

If you desire hosting a server on Windows, you can create a batch file inside the HL1 folder (see example below)

Batch example: Hosting a CS Version 1.0 server on cs_assault, using port 27015 (the default one) with a maximum of 16 players:

set MAXPLAYERS=16
set PORT=27015
set GAME=cstrk10r
set MAP=cs_assault

start hlds.exe -game %GAME% +maxplayers %MAXPLAYERS% +map %MAP%

Troubleshooting

The models are frozen upon a death in CS Beta 6.x !

This is a visual glitch that seem to happen during animations. Unfortunately no solution has been found yet.