Setup of a Windows based Quake Server?
Dave
Hi all,
Hopefully someone here can help me out.
I finally got our T1 installed in our office and would like to set up
a Quake server full time for our ISP customers and other Internet
players to have some fun on.
I can get "winded.exe" to run on any machine just fine (part time),
but now want to get into more complex issues like select levels
repeating, cft, custom weapons, gravity, etc.
Can anyone point me to a FAQ or advise me on the best way to proceed?
Will a P133 - 166 running Win 95 (a workstation) be sufficient, or
should I run it on one of our PPro NT boxes (various servers)?
The workstations have 32 MB RAM and the NT machines have 128 MB. What
resources will "winded.exe" need in each enviroment and is this the
best server to run (on Windows).
Basically I can't find any guides out there on the best way to do this
and need some help.
If anyone has advise, please reply here or preferably e-mail me
directly.
Thanks,
Dave
Mike Perry
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 04:56:44 GMT, da...@ii.ca (Dave) wrote:
>I can get "winded.exe" to run on any machine just fine (part time),
>but now want to get into more complex issues like select levels
>repeating, cft, custom weapons, gravity, etc.
I'd suggest dumping normal Quake, get installed QuakeWorld. It allows
for a much smoother internet game.
David Carter
Dave <da...@ii.ca> wrote in article <3442f916...@news.westel.com>...
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> I can get "winded.exe" to run on any machine just fine (part time),
> but now want to get into more complex issues like select levels
> repeating, cft, custom weapons, gravity, etc.
winded.exe has been made obsolete. Use winquake.exe -dedicated; or
alternatively, use qwsv.exe (QuakeWorld server). Winquake.exe is probably
your best bet. It's a little easier to get things set up.
>
> Can anyone point me to a FAQ or advise me on the best way to proceed?
Use www.slipgatecentral.com. Here's a couple relevant queries to get you
going:
http://www.slipgatecentral.com/search.cgi?term=faq
http://www.slipgatecentral.com/search.cgi?term=console+command
>
> Will a P133 - 166 running Win 95 (a workstation) be sufficient, or
> should I run it on one of our PPro NT boxes (various servers)?
nah...that'll work great unless you get a ton of players. We used a 486-66
and had no probs (up to 4 players).
>
> The workstations have 32 MB RAM and the NT machines have 128 MB. What
> resources will "winded.exe" need in each enviroment and is this the
> best server to run (on Windows).
that's plenty.
later;
DaC
Dan Beimborn
Dave wrote:
> I can get "winded.exe" to run on any machine just fine (part time),
> but now want to get into more complex issues like select levels
> repeating, cft, custom weapons, gravity, etc.
>
(use quakeworld instead of quake- much better for net games)
Custom games aren't too hard- the basic requirements are
that
their pack files, qwprogs.dat (for quakeworld) or progs.dat
(for
normal quake), and server.cfg live in a subdir. CTF is a
little
trick to configure, but the docs that come with it aren't
that
hard to suss out. Most of the expansions will require a
large client
download (packfiles) and a smaller server package
(qwprogs.dat)
download. Get them from the usual suspects- blue's news,
redwood's,
etc..
http://www.bluesnews.com
http://redwood.stomped.com
> Will a P133 - 166 running Win 95 (a workstation) be sufficient, or
> should I run it on one of our PPro NT boxes (various servers)?
The hardware is fine, but win95 multitasks poorly.. if you
are doing anything else on the machine, the server will
suffer
badly. I'd recommend the NT ones (or Linux, Bsdi, Solaris,
etc
if you have 'em, bacuse you could then nice the server
process,
run in bkgrnd with stdin & stdout redirected to the void,
etc
etc etc). NT is just barely approaching becoming usable for
any kind of commercial netserving, win 95 pretty much blows
at
it entirely unless that is ALL the machine does.
> The workstations have 32 MB RAM and the NT machines have 128 MB. What
> resources will "winded.exe" need in each enviroment and is this the
> best server to run (on Windows).
qwsv2.01 is the best one.. if you have a specific reason to
run normal
quake.. use winded (instead of normal quake with
-dedicated).
--
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David Carter
Just wanted to point out that I neglected to realize that you are setting
up for internet play. So, never mind that other stuff. Use QuakeWorld
and, yeah, you need a killer server.
Sorry for any confusion...
--
David Carter
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David Carter <carter@~~~bitstream.net> wrote in article
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>
> winded.exe has been made obsolete. Use winquake.exe -dedicated; or
> alternatively, use qwsv.exe (QuakeWorld server). Winquake.exe is
probably
> your best bet. It's a little easier to get things set up.
>
>