I was running dedicated server via wine in a Linux host with no X-Windows, using the command wineconsole --backend=curses LFS.exe.

Upgrading to Patch Y failed mysteriously for me. I was wondering why. In the end, I did ssh X forwarding and found out that /autokick=spectate should have been renamed to /autokick=spec in patch Y.

The actual problem for me was that this error message about wrong /autokick parameter was only shown in a Windows alert dialogue, and not in the console output.

So my suggestion is, if it's possible, to output some or all of these messages, notifications etc. to stdout / console, too. I think it would be useful to us Linux / wine dedi admins.

I would rather see everything DirectX being dropped from the dedicated server completely. I'm sorry but I cannot see any need for it at all.