News: Dedicated Server Released

Can someone please paste the readme.txt file here? :hippy:


October 7th, 2004

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Tribes: Vengeance - Beta Dedicated Server - version 1.0.0.1

These instructions are laid out in the following order:

System Requirements
Installation
Known Issues
Customizing the Beta Dedicated Server
Using Web Administration Interface
Network Troubleshooting
End-User License Agreement


NOTICE:

* This Tribes: Vengeance - Beta Dedicated Server application is provided "as-is" and is not officially supported by Irrational Games or Sierra Entertainment, Inc.

* Tribes: Vengeance - Beta Dedicated Server application is only recommended for advanced computer users.


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Minimum Specification

1. ATI® Radeon™ or equivalent DirectX® 9.0c-compliant 32 MB 3D video card with hardware T&L and pixel shader support
2. Microsoft® Windows® 98/2000/XP operating system
3. 1.0 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD® Athlon™ processor or equivalent
4. 256 MB RAM
5. 5 GB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files - An additional 472 Mb hard disk space for Beta Dedicated Server application.
6. DirectX® 9.0c (included with Full game)
7. DirectX®-compatible sound card and speakers or headphones
8. 4X CD-ROM drive
9. Microsoft® compatible mouse and keyboard


Recommended Specification: Windows® XP

The recommended specification is exactly the same as the minimum specification with the following changes:

1. Windows® XP
2. ATI® Radeon™ 9600 or equivalent DirectX® 9.0c-compliant 128 MB 3D video card with hardware T&L and pixel shader support
3. 2.5 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD® Athlon™ or faster processor
4. 512 MB RAM or more
5. 24X or faster CD-ROM drive
6. Broadband/LAN, DSL or faster Internet connection for online play


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Installation:

1) Run the self extracting archive for the Beta Dedicated Server. Files will be installed to the program files/vugames/tribes vengeance server/ folder by default.

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Known Issues:


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Customizing the Beta Dedicated Server:

1) In the program files/vugames/tribes vengeance editor/program/bin folder right click on the the Default.ini file.

2) Select "Properties"

3) Uncheck the box marked "Read-Only". Click "Ok".

4) Open Default.ini by double-clicking.

5) Under "[UWeb.WebServer]" find "bEnabled=false" and change to true.

6) Find "ServerName" and change "Another TV Server" to server name of your choice.

7) Close and save Default.ini

8) In the bin folder, open admin TribesAdmin.ini

9) In the second line it will say: "AdminUsers=(AdminName="Admin",Password="Admin"..."
Change the Admin in the AdminName and Password to your choice.

10) Close and save TribrsAdmin.ini



Running the Beta Dedicated Server:

1) Run the server executable: TV_Server.exe. The changes that you just made will now be in operation.

2) Open your web browser and enter: "http://localhost:80"

3) When prompted, enter the username and password that you set up as admin login, in steps 8 and 9 above.

You now have access to the Web Administration Interface using your internet browser.

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Using Web Administration Interface:


* Select Current Game on the left and you have options to change the map and game type currently being played.

* You can log in to WebAdmin from another machine by entering http://<ip>:80 where <ip> is the IP of the server.

Across the top of the WebAdmin screen are three headings:

Current, Defaults and Admin & Groups.

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Current:

Clicking on Current at the top of the screen allows the administrator to change the current game.

* Clicking on Current Game, allows the Admin to change current map and Game Mode.

* Player List: allows kicking or banning of players by checking “kick” or “ban” next the player’s name and clicking “kick/ban”.

* Server Console: allows you to type into the text box. That text is broadcast to players in the Server, allowing you to warn them of any changes being made to the server.

* Mutators: allows use of mutators (not currently available).

* Restart Level: allows web admin to restart the level.

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Defaults:

* Clicking on Defaults at the top brings up Maps and the map rotation list, making changes to this list currently has no effect.

* Server: allows the administrator to add a password to the game. Note that this will not take effect until the map rotates.

* IP Bans/Accepts: allows the administrator to ban certain IP’s by clicking “new” and adding the IP. It also displays existing banned IP’s from the server: these can be unbanned by clicking “accept” next to the banned IP, then “update”, or simply clicking “delete” next to the IP.

* Restart Level: allows web admin to restart the level.

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Admin & Groups:

The final option at the top, Admins and Groups, is not currently implemented.

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NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING

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If you have an internet connection (e.g. DSL, ADSL or Cable modem) and have installed a “personal firewall” on your computer such as Black Ice, Zone Alarm, Norton Internet Security, etc., you may experience problems joining one of the multiple games found on the Tribes servers.
To avoid problems with joining and hosting Tribes Vengeance multiplayer game sessions make sure that the ports below are open for UDP/TCP two-way traffic on your firewall. Some personal firewall applications do this setup automatically, depending on how your firewall is configured. Please refer to your firewall instruction manual for information on how to do this.

The following UDP ports need to be opened:
6500
7777
7778
27900



The following TCP ports need to be opened:
7777
7778
28910


If you want to host a game using the game application you need to open up the above ports for outgoing and incoming traffic. If you are behind a NAT/IP firewall you can only host a game by setting up a separate Dedicated Server application and forwarding the required ports to it.

Please refer to http://www.tribesvengeance.com or http://www.tribalwar.com/ for further information about Dedicated Servers.

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End-User License Agreement

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Thanks to all contributors at www.TribalWar.com, and the testers at VU Games, QA Dept, for help with these instructions.

When initially setting up, don't change Default.ini. Instead, copy it to Beta_Dedicated_Server.ini and edit that. (This follows the model set by UT2004 of using Default.ini as a pristine "factory" ini file used when you totally foul up your regular ini file. The game binary will copy it to the above name if none exists.)

To cleanly shut the server down, go to the console page in the WebAdmin and enter "quit". (You'll need to erase the "say" first.) If you don't shut down the server cleanly, it may not save an updated ini file.

Running under WINE, the beta attempts to display this in a message box:

"Tribes:Vengeance requires the permission to write to TV.exe's folder. Please run the game under a user account that has the appropriate permissions."

The Bin directory and all files in it are writable by the vengeance user, so what could it be complaining about?

it's complaining about the fact it's making API calls that don't exist in WINE.
Get over it, it doesnt run in *nix, and unless they change their mind and decide to pay for the license it never will.

Then the error message is bogus. I don't see any relevant fixme's in the WINE output to indicate unimplemented API's it cares about. Which ones in particular do you think are relevant?

(And why is a console app trying to put up a messagebox? Somebody screwed that one up!)

Then the error message is bogus. I don't see any relevant fixme's in the WINE output to indicate unimplemented API's it cares about. Which ones in particular do you think are relevant?

(And why is a console app trying to put up a messagebox? Somebody screwed that one up!)Because it's not a console app, it's a pruned down version of the full executable.

When initially setting up, don't change Default.ini. Instead, copy it to Beta_Dedicated_Server.ini and edit that. (This follows the model set by UT2004 of using Default.ini as a pristine "factory" ini file used when you totally foul up your regular ini file. The game binary will copy it to the above name if none exists.)

To cleanly shut the server down, go to the console page in the WebAdmin and enter "quit". (You'll need to erase the "say" first.) If you don't shut down the server cleanly, it may not save an updated ini file.

Quoted for truthery.

The readme was written based on a build that was refusing to save changes to the Beta_Dedicated_Server.ini file, and this was done as a workaround. It wasn't changed because that would have delayed release, and this workaround still works.

>>Because it's not a console app, it's a pruned down version of the full executable.<<

I'm wondering why they aren't releasing a console only version of the dedicated server. UCC (for UT) is a very good way at integrating a dedicated server.

/Riddick

wonder away, many of us have been wondering why the server was the last thing released for mass use and that included the beta builds.

The API's it is trying to call have to do directly with DX more than anything, because even in the dedicated server it binds a bunch of stuff to video, sound and input that it doesnt need. WINE is just a portal for 'some' things windows, and this is one thing that will not work, nor will ever work, unless the dev team redoes it the way it should have been done in the first place.

CandyMan must have either made much more progess with WINE than I have, or he's got an inside view of the code. My copy fails testing for a writable Bin directory fairly early in the process using a rather odd API call for the purpose (CreateFile) and I'm still hacking on WINE to get it past that point.

i've tried it every way i can imagine, along with 3 other people doing the same.
It can't install due to not having the correct components to attach to (dx calls that fail due to dx not being available.

Believe it or not, the server code still uses dx, for whatever reason

How do you know it's the dx calls? Can you email me your data? (my username here @matureasskickers.net.) I'm not willing to throw in the towel.

BTW, anyone here interested in having a real server mailing list? I'm about to fire up Mailman on our new server and migrate the old t2servers list, so I can create a tvservers list when I get it going.

what would the list provide or do? if not mistaken this was tried in t2 via 5150 members and some others and was quickly killed. I have mailing lists out the yang for different things running on my servers (each server i have access to has it's own list with all that servers admins, etc).

The dx calls were seen during a debug from one of our c# geeks. He was simply watching the server on a windows machine make a bunch of API/dx calls and asked me wtf it needed to do that for if it was a server and not the game itself.

A separate mailing list means we wouldn't have to put up with the awful forum software used by the Sierra forums, and we could segregate server issues out of TW, where they're easily lost amidst the client chatter. And we'd have an archive to draw from as a knowledge base.

i've been thinking of starting a site for this... similar to unrealadmin.org ... i've delayed because i don't know if it would ever fly... there are only about 20-25 server admins for all of Tribes Vengeance right now...

If there is interest in such a site, WOLFGaming.net (http://www.wolfgaming.net) would love to help in any way we can. We can definitely host the site and forums (vBulletin 3) for this and assist in creation and maintenance.

hows your brother doing johnny?

Id be interested in a serveradmin list

hows your brother doing johnny?

Fine, I guess. Are you sure you got the right guy, though? ;)

yep, I was around when WOLF first started, say hi to Hobbes for me