[bf1942] New build.

[DD]

I`ve got the same problem ...:))
and hope it will be fixed in next release ...


On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Troy wrote:

>
> Great work Ryan..
> but i miss having bots and i cant see my server on my local lan in the local game browser :(
>
> but hopefully its will be a fix in the future..
> Keep up the good work
>  "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:
> http://icculus.org/betas/bf1942/bf1942-lnxded-betaupdate-build-1041834125.tar.bz2
>
> The crashbugs are driving me nuts, and I'm not entirely certain they
> aren't race conditions. So I ripped the multithreading out. There's a few
> benefits to this:
>
> 1) The binary is 1.5 megs smaller (!).
> 2) Less latency due to context switching and mutex contention, etc.
> 3) Less context switches.
>
> The end result is that the server might actually respond better and eat
> less CPU (although I suspect the lag people are seeing is unrelated).
>
> Most importantly:
> 4) No race conditions.
>
> No, most importantly:
> 5) No more complaints that there's three copies of the game running!
>
> You might get all the same crashbugs in this build as the last one. We
> won't know until you try it, but it will let us rule out a threading
> problem (and at least I can say with certainty that you won't crash in
> pthread_mutex_lock() anymore. :) )
>
> Other stuff:
>
> 1) The server status info (the little red dot in the server browser)
> shouldn't be red anymore. That thing is based on framerate, but since all
> the video stuff was ripped out of the Linux server, the frames per second
> was always zero (which, I guess, is really really slow. :) ). Now it
> reports server frames per second, which in terms of a null rendering
> device, is a more accurate term for the exact same thing.
>
> 2) I set the gamespy socket to "reusable", which is the ONLY difference
> between the game's socket and the gamespy one...if this doesn't fix
> FreeBSD's binding problems, I can't fathom what's wrong with it.
>
> Ok, I'm getting on a plane for San Francisco now, but I'll be checking
> email throughout the week. Please report success and failure (and stack
> traces).
>
> Good luck,
> --ryan.
>
>
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