[bf1942] Dedicated Server under WineX 3

[Chad Rose]

I was never commenting about whether anyone was able to spend alot of money
on a server ... just pointing out that going Wine takes away from the lists
ability to know everyones experience... I have used Ryan's stuff since it
came out... and I am still... the performance isn't that bad...  but I have
noticed on dual XP1900+ server it runs perfectly!  On my server which is a
1gig Duron... online players barely notice the linux lag problem.... go
figure ...


----- Original Message -----
From: <monthos at mx3.org>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Dedicated Server under WineX 3


> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Mike wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 03 April 2003 8:53 pm, monthos at mx3.org wrote:
> > > "Perhaps there is a way to run the Windows server without a head?"
> > >
> > > yes use the Xvfb Xserver. is a Virtual (fake) Xserver that doesnt
really
> > > draw anything, i used it back in the days for MoH:AA server hosting
untill
> > > the linux binaries became available.
> >
> >
> > Ah, that sounds very good!  I don't know how you could start a BF1942
server
> > without it popping up the console or the GUI..  Perhap someone can
enlighten
> > me :)
>
> type this in your ssh connection or whatever
>
> Xvfb :0
> export DISPLAY=:0
>
> then start your BF1942 server with whatever settings you need on the
> command line, since you WONT have a GUI. rcon it all man :) . i never said
> its an elegant solution, but if a linux solution isnt available, or isnt
> up to snuff yet, it works.
>