[bf1942] Linux patch ETA

[Scott DeLeury]

I was able to get farcry running, but no matter what it'd crash completely
in less than a day.  CoD is a decent Q3 engine game, but don't run it on
less than a Dual 2.4 Xeon for best results, same goes for CoD:UO (That's in
definite need of a patch).


> From: Michael Ressen <netadmin at michiganburbs.com>
> Reply-To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:34:06 -0600
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Linux patch ETA
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Haven't tried CoD yet.   I did put up RTCW-ET, and that runs nice.
> Still trying to find a stable way to do Far Cry, but I may just dump
> that idea altogether lol.
> 
> /BA
> 
> Rick Thompson wrote:
> 
>> That is not at issue here. Regardless of how long it took to hack the
>> code out it should have been finished and released concurrently with
>> the win32 version.
>> 
>> Everybody screws up occasionally, I can accept and understand that.
>> What I can't understand is why the hell we don't have a patch now, at
>> least five days after the original blunder was discovered.
>> 
>> We lost two servers today and I'd be surprised if we didn't lose more,
>> that I understand very well.
>> 
>> There has been a shift somewhere in EA because they have never been
>> this blatantly indifferent to their userbase before, at least not
>> since we started hosting BF. I don't like the signals I am seeing
>> about BF2 nix support either, between that and this current patch
>> fiasco I now have zero confidence in anything they say.
>> 
>> Is anyone hosting Call of Duty? What's the cpu time like and are there
>> any server manager apps for it?
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> 
>> At 12:05 PM 12/5/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>> 
>>> Unless the Linux codebase is a seperate branch....??   I guess that's
>>> never been made clear to us.
>> 
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