[bf1942] Info on the next beta (more features..)

[Andrew Chen]

At 01:38 AM 7/25/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Chen" <achen-bf1942 at divo.net>
> > If you start the server in windows with "cmd.exe /c start /abovenormal
> > bf1942.exe +restart 1 [...]", it will lose the abovenormal priority
> > settings after the next map change (presumably at the next map
> > change).  Can you have BF restore its priority level after a map change?
>
>This will be because on map change a new process is exec'd should be
>a mater of just checking the current process priority and setting it for the
>new process. BTH though it shouldnt make too much diff.

Yeah, I know _why_ it happens, but I can't do anything to fix it (other 
than have a daemon sit and watch for BF processes and change their 
priorities), that's why I figured I would ask the powers that be to change 
it :)


> > BTW, please don't make priority an option in the config file.  Imagine how
> > much it would suck if customers of game hosting companies could change
> > their server priority just by FTPing a new config file :)
>
>But if it was on our system you could just make it a restricted variable and
>they wouldn't be able to :P

I have something similar for Half-Life, but not yet for Battlefield.  :)

-a