From 2fe950b0af50b40e27813a9abc844e15dcfe77da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alibek Omarov <a1ba.omarov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:01:36 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] engine: server: don't show scary message about missing server
 library on engine startup in multiplayer capable games

---
 engine/client/cl_gameui.c | 1 -
 engine/server/server.h    | 2 +-
 engine/server/sv_init.c   | 9 ++++++---
 engine/server/sv_main.c   | 2 +-
 engine/server/sv_save.c   | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/engine/client/cl_gameui.c b/engine/client/cl_gameui.c
index 71360f16..bf541a9b 100644
--- a/engine/client/cl_gameui.c
+++ b/engine/client/cl_gameui.c
@@ -1362,7 +1362,6 @@ qboolean UI_LoadProgs( void )
 	UITEXTAPI	GiveTextApi;
 	MENUAPI	GetMenuAPI;
 	string dllpath;
-	int			i;
 
 	if( gameui.hInstance ) UI_UnloadProgs();
 
diff --git a/engine/server/server.h b/engine/server/server.h
index 356440e0..5256e63c 100644
--- a/engine/server/server.h
+++ b/engine/server/server.h
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ qboolean SV_ProcessUserAgent( netadr_t from, const char *useragent );
 //
 // sv_init.c
 //
-qboolean SV_InitGame( void );
+qboolean SV_InitGame( qboolean silent );
 void SV_ActivateServer( int runPhysics );
 qboolean SV_SpawnServer( const char *server, const char *startspot, qboolean background );
 void SV_DeactivateServer( void );
diff --git a/engine/server/sv_init.c b/engine/server/sv_init.c
index c960b91a..f8ce9bb2 100644
--- a/engine/server/sv_init.c
+++ b/engine/server/sv_init.c
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ SV_InitGame
 A brand new game has been started
 ==============
 */
-qboolean SV_InitGame( void )
+qboolean SV_InitGame( qboolean silent )
 {
 	string dllpath;
 
@@ -742,7 +742,10 @@ qboolean SV_InitGame( void )
 
 	if( !SV_LoadProgs( dllpath ))
 	{
-		Sys_Warn( "can't initialize %s: %s\n", dllpath, COM_GetLibraryError( ));
+		if( !silent )
+			Sys_Warn( "can't initialize %s: %s\n", dllpath, COM_GetLibraryError( ));
+		else
+			Con_Printf( S_ERROR "can't initialize %s: %s\n", dllpath, COM_GetLibraryError( ));
 		return false; // failed to loading server.dll
 	}
 
@@ -1015,7 +1018,7 @@ qboolean SV_SpawnServer( const char *mapname, const char *startspot, qboolean ba
 
 	SV_SetupClients();
 
-	if( !SV_InitGame( ))
+	if( !SV_InitGame( false ))
 		return false;
 
 	Delta_Init(); // re-initialize delta
diff --git a/engine/server/sv_main.c b/engine/server/sv_main.c
index b9295435..c6118266 100644
--- a/engine/server/sv_main.c
+++ b/engine/server/sv_main.c
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ void SV_Init( void )
 
 	SV_InitFilter();
 	SV_ClearGameState ();	// delete all temporary *.hl files
-	SV_InitGame();
+	SV_InitGame( GI->gamemode != GAME_SINGLEPLAYER_ONLY );
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/engine/server/sv_save.c b/engine/server/sv_save.c
index 42c80d2c..3d1e4a6f 100644
--- a/engine/server/sv_save.c
+++ b/engine/server/sv_save.c
@@ -2142,7 +2142,7 @@ qboolean SV_LoadGame( const char *pPath )
 		return false;
 
 	// initialize game if needs
-	if( !SV_InitGame( ))
+	if( !SV_InitGame( false ))
 		return false;
 
 	svs.initialized = true;