Absurd Minds

It has happened to me a lot as I've been running my server that the map will change to a particular map, and half the people in the server can't join because they don't have a wad file.

The file is present on the server and on the fastdl, but still people won't be able to download it.

There is a simple solution to this problem. The game server decides what files to download based on the maps .res file. For example, the .res file for de_russka_cz looks like this:

maps/de_russka_cz.txt
overviews/de_russka_cz.bmp
overviews/de_russka_cz.txt
models/de_russka_cz/russka_cz_tree1.mdl

If you frequently have problems with people getting kicked because they don't have a wad file, it's because either that map doesn't have a .res file, or the .res file doesn't contain the wad file in it. So to fix it, either make a .res file for the map and put the wad file in it, or add the wad file to existing .res file. The .res file goes into the cstrike or czero directory.

All of the directories are relational to the cstrike or czero directory. So wad files should just be listed as wadfile.wad, because wad files goes directly into the cstrike or czero folder.