Local filter settings:
In this section you can customize your filter settings. These will take effect if you switch your local filter on. By selecting a checkbox you tell searchtool to do display servers with this kind of attribute. Deselect what you do not want to see. Note that the empty/full server filter is the only one that will also be applied to the masterserver filter.
- empty servers | full servers - Select both boxes to tell the filter not to care about full or empty servers. If you do not want to see full or empty servers deselect the checkbox of choice.
- public servers | private servers - Select both boxes to tell the filter not to care about public or private servers. Note that you cannot deselect both buttons because that would tell searchtool not to show any server.
- not checked servers - Select this box to show servers that have a red ball in the response column. A server with a red ball either did not respond or it has not yet been queried.
Startup settings:
Edit your startup settings here. These settings are required to be able to conect to a server of choice and to make the mod/map filter work.
- Path to game dir: - Specify the absolute path to your game's directory and hit the apply button to make the settings take effect. If the path is correct you can now select your installed mods and maps in the mod/map filter next to the buttonbar on a serverlist's tab.
- Startup command - Enter the command to execute when you decide to connect to a server. This can be the path to the executable and optional parameters or the path to a script, also with optional parameters. Searchtool will append connecting parameters to the end of the command when launching the game. NOTE FOR LINUX USERS: there is a script at http://searchtool.sourceforge.net/ut that you can use to make the loki port accept the serveraddress as a parameter (thx to sirex). Otherwise you will not be able to connect directly to the selected server.
- Time to wait ... - Select a timeout in seconds that searchtool will wait once connected before it exits. Set this value to zero to exit immediately (recommended).
Misc settings:
Some miscellaneous settings.
- Masterserver IP - Enter the correct IP address or domain to a Half-Life masterserver. Searchtool will query this server for serverlists.
- Masterserver PORT: - Enter the corresponding port here.
Global settings:
In this section you find some settings that affect the behavior of searchtool independently from the currently selected game (more games will be supported in the future) .
- Choose Look & Feel: - Select the Look & Feel of choice.
- Bind Doubleclick to: - Bind the doubleclick on a server to a certain task.
- Choose sort/filter interval: - Select the amount of time in Milliseconds searchtool will wait before resorting and refreshing the filter.
- Choose simultaneous query number: - Select the number of serverqueries that can run simultaneously when pinging a serverlist or searching for players. The value of 40 performs well on my 128KBit upstream connection.