Blakhart
- person Blakhart
- perm_contact_calendar Member since
- today Last active (20 visits)
Comments
-
Setting the HostGamePlayerCount from 0 to the static bot count enabled the functionality of the script. May this script save Admins of the far flung Wilderzone millions of Tribal Credits, with my thanks to all involved in its creation.
-
Tried this in a very similar-spec server and sadly there's no differentiation between ai and human players.... so with an ai server it's non functional but does execute.
-
Outstanding work as usual Krash, thanks for everything.
-
https://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/233/AMD_Athlon_XP_1700+_(1.6V)_vs_Intel_Xeon_E5630.html
-
Thanks for the reply Roboto. On the vms, one should consider most vms are hosting dozens, maybe even hundreds of servers at the same time, this alone might cause latency to players in a match hosted on said cluster that would go unnoticed by the rest of the users who aren't playing an fps. Perhaps some vms are strictly…
-
So as you may recall I promised a Game Server and a Retro game System build both oh mebbe a year ago. Well, so far I've only gotten around to the Game Server build as of today. As to parts, I didn't want to spend a cent on a game server because I have been carrying this crap; mobo, cpus, scsi cards, drives, cables with…
-
but first some addenda that got lost in translation or something and I quote; On the T2 box it gives some examples of desired and minimally acceptable pc system specs for gameplay, the gf3ti was the target card for an optimal spec system. T2 is more or less a DX6/7 class game (as is T1) with some DX8 shader bolt ons such…
-
I am humbled you'd do so, please feel free to add it/edit it to suit.
-
A Word on Tweaking Win10 and 11; This thread got my attention when looking for lag inducers; "Recently, a youtuber named 'Tech Yes City' did a comparison Video between Windows 10 vs Windows 11 and found out that W11 has more latency. It's pretty interesting to see what he tested. He specifically compared TPM, Secure Boot…
-
A Word on Priority The previously mentioned bat file solution to the cache thrashing of T2 has an interesting switch in the string, see here; del /s /q *.dso start /affinity 1 /abovenormal Tribes2.exe -online
-
Later on we ran a dual 1ghz piii server just because we had the parts, and it served not only Tribes, but Tribes 2, CS 1.6, and Tribes Vengeance all at the same time. Of course it had scsi drives. That dual piii system worked a treat till one of the cpus failed. Then we rolled a dual Athlon XP1400 setup (Athlons would do…
-
But wait. Did someone mention game servers? Could swear someone said game server. I definitely heard game server. Let me tell you about them. Gizmo, one of the nerds who got me into Tribes, ran a Tribes server whenever he was working as he could use the work pc and bandwidth at the ISP to host online players. He hosted a…
-
I didn't know much about game pc parts selection when starting out; what specific part was available that'd be worthy of "gaming", so I set about studying like mad, reading any and all pc mags and books I could get my hands on. To be fair, I have been into electronics since I was 13 (a very long time ago) and was…
-
A (further) Word on Smooth Gameplay It used to be easy to get smooth gameplay when all we had was one cpu core. Now the core counts are ever increasing while most older games, T1 and T2 included, are single threaded and at the mercy of the scheduler of any given os. A thread is that part of a program that gets executed by…
-
A Word on PC Parts Selection and Placement Networking When building a server recently I noted some online discussion of add in nics (network interface cards) as opposed to onboard with respect towards reducing cpu use. Some say onboard is fine if a decent chip is used by the mobo maker, others give examples of reduced cpu…
-
A Word on Cheap Game Systems and Crash Recovery So the other day the rest of the pc, the game system that had the drives go south a few weeks back, went south to catch up with the drives. Mobo was acting flaky with random glitches and finaly refused to boot past the bios splash screen, my guess is ether a chip failure or…
-
A Word on Smooth Gameplay Some folks don't want the jittery gameplay that comes from running ip scripts, frameskippa, or running without triple buffering in the case of vsynched players. In that case there are some steps one can take to make the game smoother. One is a gem from Tribes original flavor;…
-
A Word on Making Backups Not long ago a few drives went south in the game build assembled in 2008, the drives were new then or shortly after and had given good service for lo these many years. But all good things come to an end and these drives gave indication they were coming to an end. The system had a os drive and a…
-
A word on memory ranks/channels/bandwidths; It's not unusual to have this kind of question debated in tech forums, so today we're having a look at the performance impact of having four DDR4 memory modules in a dual-channel system, opposed to just two modules. In this scenario all modules are operating at the same…
-
http://www.t2.branzone.com/ https://gamebanana.com/maps/games/562 http://www.tribaloutpost.com/ http://www.chaingunned.org/
-
A word on Output Color Depth and Output Dynamic Range; In your vid card control panel, in the case of nvidia cards the change resolution menu, you may find options such as Output Color Depth (bits per component) and Output Dynamic Range. I run hdmi so these options may not be available to all who might use another feed.…
-
[quote author=Konishki[!] link=topic=4082.msg29557#msg29557 date=1557392590] Ditto are there any PUG game time ever or anything, i'm in Sydney and would happily play at 3 am with a 300+ ping just for the fun of it... ;D [/quote] Sevral stralians play almost every day at discord pub wih 300 pong. One of them with mouse and…
-
Having to reboot a Tribes server, t1 or t2, has been sop for decades, something about mem leaks or running out of strings or who knows. Running on one core likely makes the server a bit less floaty as latency should be superior to running smp where the app is swapped between cores and everything that entails.
-
If you don't see a heartbeat, something's not allowing the ping to get out or back to the master server. You might try shutting off the fwall for the test duration as well as dmz the ip of the server in the rooter to see if you get anywhere. If so then set the rooter to dmz the server ip and enable the server fwall and try…
-
You might try setting to 16b 44k sound and see if that helps, otherwise a different sound driver or even sound card might be in order.
-
Crikey!
-
https://www.tribesnext.com/forum/index.php/board,4.0.html
-
Ossum, thanks!
-
A word on decompiling; Our good friends at NSA have released their decompiler; Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework developed by NSA's Research Directorate for NSA's cybersecurity mission. It helps analyze malicious code and malware like viruses, and can give cybersecurity professionals a better…
-
A word on Vsynch The Sami, our friend in Finland, let me in on a vsynch option available in Nvidia cards the other day and now I'll share it with you. I didn't notice it in the vsynch options when I installed my latest vid card and am glad The Sami notified me of its availability. It's known as Fast vsynch. I goggled fast…