Has anyone done it yet? I have a guy on the Facebook page asking how to set it up.

I'm that guy. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, but I want to start with the very basics. I have TWGS running as a service. Is this also supposed to be the console, or is there a separate TWCC module that maybe I'm missing? I'm at a loss figuring how to find anything I can launch that allows me to set up a game.

Thanks for any input.

HF

What is the benefit of running TWGS as a service versus running it minimized on the taskbar? Is this beneficial only if you have different Window's user accounts? ...You can setup TWGS to startup and go online with Windows after rebooting right?

Services start before login, so your game server can run without anyone logged into the computer.

on your desktop right click the icon for TWGS click on open file location. right click twgs.exe click on properties. click the Compatibility tab. then click the run this program as an Administrator. then click either OK or Apply.

when running as a service you will not be able to access the GUI. so make sure your settings are correct before running as a service.

one way i keep tabs on my TWGS when running as a service i use a shortcut on my Desktop to TWGS.LOG in the same directory as the twgs.exe file.

to do this you right click on TWGS.LOG when your in that directory then click on "send to" then "Desktop (create short cut)"

if you need to change things with TWGS while it is running you have to use a Telnet client to connect to your loopback address (127.0.0.1) on the administrator port that you set TWGS to before you set it to run as a service. usually port 2003.

if you have any other questions i try to answer them. but if i cannot the rest of the community might beable to help.

I've tried all of the above, and it's still crashing every few minutes.

have you tried a fresh install or is it an upgrade from a different OS?

It's the Win10 upgrade. Discovered more behaviors, when it "crashes" it disconnects from Swath and the server... but there's still an instance of TWXProxy running when I look at the task manager. The taskbar icon goes away when it crashes but it never fully closes. Without knowing it, I had two instances of TWXProxy running. Closed both in the task manager and started just one instance, and again in about 10 min. it crashed.