I'm assuming you already know how to setup SteamCMD, there are plenty of more detailed guides covering that. For this section, I'll just tell you what you need to download.

In SteamCMD, login as anonymous by entering: ...then download the TF2 dedicated server with:

Afterwards, download the TF2GR dedicated server with:


If everything went well, you should have "Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server" and "Team Fortress 2 Gold Rush Dedicated Server" in the install directory (by default <steamcmd>/steamapps/common/)

You run the server as you would any other Source dedicated server, by using the srcds_run script in the game's root directory like this:
If you get an error regarding surfaceproperties, it means you messed up the directory structure and the game couldn't mount TF2 content. Most of the time this occurs because you renamed the TF2 dedicated server. Modify gameinfo.txt to reflect the new name or rename it back to "Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server".

You need to forward port 27015 (UDP) to make your server publicly accessible, or if you don't want to/can't do that you can make use of Steam Datagram Relay functionality just like you would in a TF2 dedicated server, via the -enablefakeip parameter.

SourceMod requires Metamod: Source, which can be downloaded here.[www.sourcemm.net] Extract to the tf_goldrush folder inside the dedicated server app's root.

You can verify whether you installed Metamod correctly by running the server and typing "meta" in the SRCDS console.

You can download SourceMod here.[www.sourcemod.net]
Note that extra gamedata is required for full functionality (such as VGUI menus). This can be downloaded here.[github.com]

Both of these archives should be extracted to the same tf_goldrush folder.

If you did all of this properly, you should have both "metamod" and "sourcemod" folders in tf_goldrush/addons/, and the "sm" command should work in-game.

n.b. The Rock the Vote plugin is disabled by default, and can be enabled by moving mapchooser.smx and rockthevote.smx from tf_goldrush/addons/sourcemod/plugins/disabled to tf_goldrush/addons/sourcemod/plugins .