[bf1942] Announcement: 1.5 linux server available

[Rony Beck]

I played on a Desert Combat server last night running 1.5 and it was
fine.  Seems to be less bugs than normal from Dice's patch ;)

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:35, Scum wrote:
> Is BF 1.5 compatable with Desert Combat?
> 
> Or should we wait for DC .5 to come out before switching to BF1.5?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Woollett [mailto:lancewlt at xtra.co.nz]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:27 AM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Announcement: 1.5 linux server available
> 
> 
> Great!, and the full patch is out too, however an issue has resurfaced,
> and we got a pretty dramatic demonstration of it just before, the Crash
> to Desktop problem. Xtra (my ISP here in New Zealand) have set up a 64
> player server running just Invasion of the Philippines (great map btw!)
> that is proving very popular, and when I was in there the player count
> was at 59 people when sudden boom! crash to desktop. I checked the
> server, and 35 people (including myself) were simultaneously dumped out
> of the game, and back to desktop. No error message, BF just disappears.
> To me this says the CTD problem is network related. The server was linux
> (running on debian). This is not the first time its happened (CTD's have
> been around since patch 1.30 IIRC), however people are commenting in
> local forums on the number of CTD's they are getting with this patch, it
> seems the problem has got worse.
> 
> There has been plenty of previous occasions that I know of with CTD's
> that multiple people have been dumped from a server, however this was
> the worst I have seen.
> 
> Linux server related? Possibly. Needs to be fixed!
> 
> Regards,
> Lance
> 
> 
> Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >the linux version of the 1.5 dedicated server is available from the
> >downloads
> >section at http://bf1942.lightcubed.com.
> >
> >1.5 mostly a content patch but also fixes the annoying cd swapping bug.
> >The Linux server is mostly unchanged but I've tweaked the way the static
> >binary is linked and hopefully it should work better.
> >
> >The XPack2 (Secret Weapons) files are included, as is the new Invasion of
> >the Philippines map.
> >
> >Please note that this is a very early release, the win32 version is due out
> >sometime this week but since I'm out of the office the rest of this week we
> >decided it was a good idea to post the Linux version today.. :-)
> >
> >Have fun!
> >
> >Regards,
> >Andreas Fredriksson
> >==============================
> >Programmer
> >Digital Illusions CE Sthlm AB
> >Maria Skolgata 83, 5tr
> >S-118 53 Stockholm
> >Sweden
> >
> >
> >
> >
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