Hmmm, what's this? Dedicated Servers? ALMOST WORKING!

[Cue]

I was having a look at dedicated back in 1.09.3.8 but couldn't get it to work.
So today I was thinking to myself, I wonder if I can get it to work in 1.09.3.12. And so I tried, and guess what I found

Lookies

Player 1 is Chabo by the way.

To do dedicated follow these instructions:
1. Make a new Batch File.
2. Insert this line into the Batch File "srb2win.exe -dedicated -internetserver" (without the " of course)
3. Put the Batch File into your srb2 directory
4. Make a file called adedserv.cfg, it acts just like autoexec.cfg so put in anything you need:
servername <name> (must be without spaces)
password <password> (to login from other places)
and anything else you want (motd?)
5. Run the Batch File!
< and > are there to indicate what to put in, don't include them ^.^
And there we have it, one dedicated server, no form ingame and a chunk of memory less :D

Have Fun ;)


UPDATE: It would appear that you cannot do a dedicated server at the moment as all users see is gameover even when you try map changing etc :(

Atleast we're halfway there

 

[1-Up]

I tried that and it froze after saying "The server has been registered on the master server..."

 

[Cue]

I tried that and it froze after saying "The server has been registered on the master server..."

Then your PC fails...

 

[1-Up]

Never mind, it is just going very slow... :(
Do you need the <>'s on adedserv.cfg?

 

[supershadow2]

No. *snicker*

 

[Cue]

Never mind, it is just going very slow... :(
Do you need the <>'s on adedserv.cfg?

password <password> (to login from other places)
and anything else you want (motd?)

No I didn't just put that in...

Or did I?

 

[1-Up]

Sorry if I sound like I don't know what I am doing. This is my first time to make a .bat file.

 

[Cue]

open notepad, type in the stuff. Save it as dedicated.bat and do all files instead of txt files

 

[Flame]

do you have proof of this working?

in the listserv command, where it says permenant
does it say yes?

if so... then thats a deticated server

 

[Cue]

It doesn't need to Flame, it's still dedicated. I have no form in-game

 

[LoganA]

do you have proof of this working?

in the listserv command, where it says permenant
does it say yes?

if so... then thats a deticated server

permenant != dedicated

permenant servers are servers I add by command line that the master server doesn't listen for a heartbeat

 

[Princess Plushima]

This might sound n00bish, but exactly what is a dedicated sever?

 

[Flame]

It doesn't need to Flame, it's still dedicated. I have no form in-game

cueball.... i did everything you said and my server didnt show up on the masterserver

do you need to forward your ports to 5039 or something?

or there must be something that you add in the BAT file

 

[Mystic]

This might sound n00bish, but exactly what is a dedicated sever?

A dedicated server is essentially designed to be a server you can keep running 24/7. However, in the reality that is SRB2, it really means a server that you don't have to play in, so if you want to host and aren't interested in playing, it can do that.

 

[Princess Plushima]

Right, peopel be sure to add a map change when you set up a dedicated server. By default it takes you to an eternal void of what it shows when you have a screwed up linedef.

 

[Shuffle]

It doesn't need to Flame, it's still dedicated. I have no form in-game

cueball.... i did everything you said and my server didnt show up on the masterserver

do you need to forward your ports to 5039 or something?

or there must be something that you add in the BAT file

It's 5029. If you can't host a normal server, you can't host a dedicated one.

 

[Princess Plushima]

It doesn't need to Flame, it's still dedicated. I have no form in-game

cueball.... i did everything you said and my server didnt show up on the masterserver

do you need to forward your ports to 5039 or something?

or there must be something that you add in the BAT file

It's 5029. If you can't host a normal server, you can't host a dedicated one.

See ladies and gentlemen? Logic applies to video games.

 

[Flame]

dont you have to add something like "-clientport <Port #>"

 

[Princess Plushima]

This is important people! Read this!
Ok! Are you reading? Good. When you host a dedicated server you HAVE to change the map, for those of you idiots that's map map(mapnum goes here.) Or else your server will take place in an eternal void of darkness.

 

[Flame]

We cant change the map >.> we cant even join our own netgames!