Figured it out. With call of duty it was working with +set net_ip in the command line. I put it in the .cfg instead and ran from regular user and it worked fine. Knew it was something simple. Thanks for the help all.

Thanks. I actually posted here after googling and trying different things for the last 2 days. I figure it has to do with how it binds an ip address with net_ip setting. Why is works with COD in root but nothing else, I don't know. I have googled every possible combination of the error message. So f...

I've been working on getting a couple game server running on a linux box I have in the house. It's behind a router and port forwarding is set up. When I run ./q3ded +set net_ip 207.179.110.176 +set dedicated 2 +set fs_game westernq3 +set logfile 1 +set com_hunkmegs 16 +exec server.cfg I get: Q3 1.32...