[bf1942] Battlefield 1942 Win32 Dedicated Server with WineX - Rough Install Instructions

monthos at mx3.org monthos at mx3.org
Thu Apr 3 20:57:36 EST 2003


i agree generally, except for the X as a hog comment, you dont even need
to run a window manager, which is the real performance disaster. run it
from a console, start the Xvfb xserver, export your display in that
console to :0 and start her up.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chad Rose wrote:

> Does anyone here look to linux on their servers so they are uber efficient?
> And don't you use a standalone dedicated game server so that nothing else is
> running on it that doesn't need to be?  Guys... running BF1942 dedicated in
> Winex defeats the purpose of efficiency... especially when you have a pig
> like X running in order to use it ....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Esler" <mesler at themelee.org>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:07 PM
> Subject: [bf1942] Battlefield 1942 Win32 Dedicated Server with WineX - Rough
> Install Instructions
>
>
> > Since I received at least one email asking how to do things, I figured I'd
> > post a brief howto to the list.
> >
> > You need WineX 3 Pre-release to do this.
> > The pre-release does NOT support CD copy protection checks, so you cannot
> > install BF1942 under WineX 3.
> >
> > 1.) Copy your existing patched (and cracked if it is already) BF1942
> > directory to your server.
> >
> > 2.) Install a no-cd crack for BF1942 1.31  if you haven't. (i used a
> > non-RtR patch, but it appears to have a patched file to allow RtR to
> > play.)  I just downloaded a zip file from a popular site with cracks and
> > did unzip -a somefile.zip from within my BF1942 directory.  I can't
> > remember if this is required for the dedicated server, but I think it is.
> >
> > 3.) Install WineX 3 pre-release, and the updated winex start script (I
> > believe you need to be a subscriber to get these files.  I'm a subscriber,
> > so I'm always logged in and have access.  http://www.transgaming.com)
> >
> > 4.) I had to copy the following files to my
> > $HOME/.transgaming/c_drive/windows/system32 directory from my Windows
> > system32 directory:
> > MFC42.DLL, msvcp60.dll.  You may not need one or the other.  These are
> > both needed for the server setup gui I would imagine.
> >
> > 5.) From within X (or on an xterm thru a vnc session), cd to your BF1942
> > directory and run:
> > winex3 --winver nt40 -- ./DedicatedServer.exe +restart 1 +hostServer 1
> > +dedicated 1 (this is just what I ran, and some options may not be
> > needed.)
> >
> > 5.5) I reniced my main wine process to -5 to give it higher priority.
> >
> > 6.) At this point the Gui should pop up, you select your options, and
> > click start game.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mike Esler
> > mesler at themelee.org
> >
> >
>
>




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