How to Down\Upgrade to Garry's Mod 12!

Do you miss the golden era of 2010's Gmod? Gmod without Workshop, Dupes, and with Managing addons manually? Read on to find out how!

Before I continue! This is where this comes from!

Click here to see the original post! I'm only creating this guide to help spread awareness! Click me!

---Note
You must have a legitimate copy of Garry's Mod on your account. This installer only contains the bare basics, and will not run without Garry's mod installed.

Let's download this!

While this guide is focused on Gmod 12 (June 2010) There are previous versions that exist as well! Credit goes to Danct12 for going through the process of doing this![/h1]

An easy installer by Danct12.

Garry's Mod 12 easy installer by Danct12 (Original release Circa 2010)

Click Me![drive.google.com]
Link: This download belongs to this page! You can find other alternate builds here as well!

Garry's Mod 12 comes with Wiremod and Phoenix Storms Pack! The bare essentials! This comes with a good "pre-Toybox build from June 2010. one of my personal favorite versions

Illustration, Click Download, obviously!

Time to setup!

Once the download is complete, it's time to install it! Open the file.

Click Install


Wait a minute, then it'll be installed!


It says "Skipped" as I've already installed it prior to making this guide.



If steam is already running, You'll need to close it and restart it. You can close it by right clicking the icon in the Tray, and selecting Exit.

What about Addons?

Remember, This is Gmod before the days of Workshop. Addons are managed manually within the addons Folder.

Addons were acquired either by joining servers that had FastDL enabled, or were found on "garrysmod.org"

Below I'll link the Essentials.

Smartsnap 0.9.5[garrysmods.org]
Easy Precision 0.9.5[garrysmods.org]
Advanced Duplicator 1.85[garrysmods.org]
Smart Constraint 1.2.2[garrysmods.org]
Wiremod Comes included
Phoenix Storms comes included

What about Maps?

You can use any map, so as long as it doesn't use any Gmod 13 features, such as "Skypaint". Certain maps made for current versions of Garry's Mod will employ use of "painted" for the skybox, which this version of Garry's Mod does not recognise. Maps that use Skypaint that are loaded here will have no Sky, but rather a trippy "Trail" effect.

I'll link some personal favorites:
BigCity![garrysmods.org]
Adventurers Club (One of the most detailed maps to this day)[garrysmods.org]
SM64 Toadstool's Castle[garrysmods.org]
Mobenix Version 3[garrysmods.org]
Car Construct b1-8[garrysmods.org]
Stormier v1 (Zombie Survival)[garrysmods.org]
Abstraction (Zombie Survival)[garrysmods.org]
Freespace Revolution[garrysmods.org]
SuperSize Room v2[garrysmods.org]
DrivingMap MK-1-91[garrysmods.org]
SuperStruct v2b[garrysmods.org]
AquaBlocks![garrysmods.org]
Excess Waters[garrysmods.org]
Cubeland (Day/Night)[garrysmods.org]
XHS Construct[garrysmods.org]

Maps featured on old servers I frequented back in the day(How I Discovered them)

.:`=-~rANdOm~`-=:. (Sandbox)
Hugeflatmap Remix 5[gamebanana.com]
FreeSpace09[garrysmods.org]

Sleepersoft Enterprise (Spacebuild 2)
Spacewar v2-6 (Spacebuild)[garrysmods.org]

Nebtown
Excess Construct[garrysmods.org]
Botmap_v3 (Requres EP2 Content)[garrysmods.org]

Unknown Server(s)
UbyuTown (Was once featured on a GTARP Server)[garrysmods.org]
Funny story about this one, They let everyone have access to Nukes one time and it was total CHAOS. I also remember starting an AMD vs Intel debate between players with wire screens saying "AMD Rules". Good times!

CSS Content? Nothing's working!

Unfortunately back in 2013-2014 (During GM13's lifespan) Steam made a change to major file directories, where "Steamapps" used to be located under usernames, it's now located under "Common". These old builds of Gmod are unaware of this change, while YES. it WILL acknowledge the presence of these games, It'll be unable to properly locate the files, which is why "ERROR" will appear as well as missing textures.


You CAN Shoehorn said missing files in the hard way, (Like how most of us did back when we barely had Gmod Vanilla, but wanted to play Prop Hunt) by manually extracting "Models" and "Materials" from GCF/VCF into the "garrysmod" folder.

This applies to EVERY thing.

• CSS (A huge variety of maps require this. Generally many RP Maps.)
  
• TF2
  
• DOD
  
• PORTAL
  
• HL-EP2 (Many maps require this, i.e. gm_botmap_v3 for instance.[garrysmods.org]

Since I've never resorted to doing this myself, (I made do with Vanilla for the longest time, then EVENTUALLY got CSS)

I'll let Danct12 Explain on what to do.

Servers? What about Multiplayer?

Currently no one is hosting any dedicated servers at this time. We'd need a compatible build of SRCDS[www.maurits.tv] for any servers to ever exist.

LAN play should work, but I have not tested it. Same story for P2P. May work, may not. Correct me if I'm wrong as I have no one to really test Multiplayer with these days.

Conclusion

There we go! We got the old, good version of Gmod, Essential addons/maps. Unfortunately no one at the current moment has any dedicated servers up and running, so playing single player is our main bet for now.

If anyone has any compatible version(s) of SRCDS for Builds around June 2010, feel free to share it in the comments, and I'll add it to the "Multiplayer" segment of the guide.

Be sure to visit the original thread on this topic. There you'll find more information, Downloads for Gmod 10 and 11, and more! Credit goes to Danct12 of course.

The link above takes you to this page, the original source which my guide is based on

Thanks for reading, Have a good day, and best of all, Enjoy! Steventechno, OUT!

[UML5]

Thanks, but, I'm okay with GMOD 13.

[Агрессивный грыз]

I start the game and it doesn't launch! (I have a legit copy gmod 13)

[cheefulblues]

indeed,now gmod 12 is working.thanks for your help!

[Steventechno]

I would install it and then see if it works. I do believe it does require it. I haven't messed with it in awhile

[cheefulblues]

i believe yes bc most old valve games use that old hud style, right?

[cheefulblues]

so i need it or its not nedeed?

[Steventechno]

I believe SourceSDK 2007 as this is based on the old Orange box versions from back in the good days. =]

[cheefulblues]

bc i really want to play this :(

[cheefulblues]

got a question, do i need source sdk 2006 or 2007 to run this? i also got gmod 10 classic and i think its the same problem. i need answers.

[Steventechno]

I wish this was an official version one could select to play. but unofficial is better than nothing.