Protocol is just what I shared but you replace with whatever game you want where t4 and t5 use sp instead of zm for zm, they all use mp for mp
List of game engine names

The process to monitor in any case is plutonium-bootstrapper-win32.exe

No idea about such an unknown controller but perhaps try adding plutonium.exe to Steam as a non-Steam game then start it from Steam. See how it goes with Steam Input. Controller only works in-game, not in menus, and has to be enabled in the game's options too

You can use the task manager and make it "always on top" to be able to force close any app that's not responding
That's one of the many ways to not restart your entire PC

It has a protocol
plutonium://play/t6zm

Just pushed mapvote 2.2.0 which adds support for custom games, given that you have server files installed
(explained at the top of the instructions on the Github)

You can always take a mapvote script, such as mine, and make it rotate directly instead of displaying the vote by editing the code a little bit

I've edited mine for some people before for this use case and it's just a few lines, would gladly send it to you if you wish

JohnnyGGPW ^

sidechainfi put yourself in god mode or freeze zombies with the menu without pausing the game

Can do so via the console too

You probably did something wrong and over complicate it
Here's the full instructions on what I've done to get it to work:

• I installed the game normally
• Dropped the server files in it
• Changed the port to 27017 in bat file
• Started my game
• Started the server
• Open the game's console and paste connect localhost:27017

You don't need a server key to play locally
401 error in the console while the server is running is normal for a local server with no port opened and no server
My server is displaying that and I can play and progress just fine

Is it a local server just for you or a public server for anyone to join?

You can read our documentation
https://plutonium.pw/docs/server/t6/setting-up-a-server/

If the server is just for yourself you can skip the server key part and replace the port in the bat file to let's say 5000 and connect to it using /connect localhost:5000 in your game's console
You gotta start the server while the game is running if hosting on the machine you play on (unless you do some tweaks maybe)

For bots use this
https://github.com/ineedbots/t6_bot_warfare

Add seta bots_manage_fill "12" to auto add bots each game to get started, as such, in your dedicated.cfg file

Delete scripts you have installed / that came with your game files

YKFalcon arkun159 opiex. kajny88

Read the pinned message in #mw3-support on our Discord server
You need to downgrade your game version

Read the pinned message in #mw3-support on our Discord server

Read the pinned message in #mw3-support on our Discord

zyn_munchy no, this is a multiplayer menu, for zombies use a zombies menu

You didn't explain your issue, I'll assume you download the game from Steam, which won't work
You can read the pinned message in mw3-support on our Discord server for the solution

JaxSheppy

Your antivirus is so bad that even adding an exclusion to it doesn't work, this alone is enough to uninstall it already

Windows Defender that comes free with Windows is really good. There is no need for the average user to ever pay for an antivirus

@loathe-agod

https://plutonium.pw/docs/modding/loading-textures/

adesanyaglazer try having your game in windowed borderless instead of fullscreen