---
description: Launch a windowed client against a fresh local dedicated server
---

Start a dedicated server in the background and a windowed client against it, so
the change can be looked at rather than inferred:

```bash
tools/server.sh --port 27015 &
tools/client.sh --join --host 127.0.0.1 --port 27015 --name dev
```

Remember to stop the background server afterwards. If there is no display
available, use `tools/smoke.sh` instead and say that is what you did.