MudGuts

X64 or X86 Win2k3? Are you sure it's actually running? If you don't have the latest directX files they will use about that when they display the error message and are not actually running. I have several 20 slot Honor servers using a whole 2.66ghz core (25% quad core) and using 700-900mb ram when full. I doubt 53mb is even running properly. BTW, if you guys are trying to use Auth user/passwords from AA2 you need to contact Pragmatic and get them changed over to AA3 to get it to work properly. Is anyone running 26 slot servers ok on Dual XEON Quad Core 5405 servers or XEON Quad Core 3220? - please post usage specs and OS.

From what I can gather, if the server is not authorized, it goes in to LAN mode.

It is available from the Tools tab in Steam, same place the other dedicated servers and SDK tools are. I haven't tested in a dedicated environment without Steam yet though.

I have discovered part of the problem. I went in to the service controller and found the the tcadmin service that executes the game and changed the user permissions to Administrator (from System) and it works! However this is not ideal for obvious reasons. I tried to create a new user with permissions (even tested admin permissions) and nothing. It seems after a while this game will ONLY work if executed as Administrator. My guess is it's doing something to the OS that requires Administrator permissions like writing cache files or something, but I don't know exactly what. I have looked everywhere, registry, files, etc. and I cannot find anything that may be stopping this from working with the normal System permissions. If anyone can find a way for this to work without using the Administrator login to execute the service I would very interested to know.

I am still trying to work out why its not working, its now not working through tcadmin on 2 dedicated servers, however running exactly the same command lines manually works perfectly. It is working with tcadmin on 7 other dedicated servers with exactly the same setup. I have tried watching for errors with interact with desktop and nothing. Looking at task manager I can see the executable running, but it's stuck using just over 9MB ram and not changing. I have tried everything and am at a loss to explain why it's happening. Has anyone else fixed this problem????

how did you get it not to ask for safe mode? i have this running fine on 8 boxes, but on 1 particular box it just wont start through tcadmin, but it does over remote desktop manually fine.