Quake 4

[AvailNetworks]

anybody have any information about quake4 server files or the configs for it?

 

 

 

thanks,

 

Reed

[ECF]

Nothing has been released yet. but from what we can tell, it is based on the Doom 3 engine, but has been optimized for netplay.

 

 

 

Also don't forget to keep an eye out for Call of Duty 2

[AvailNetworks]

yeah man I already have my tshirt for that too!

 

 

 

 

 

I have never ran doom3 multiplayer but from what I heard it is a huge resource hog, hopefully this is not like that!

[Hogie]

I have it raring on my server right now... You need full game install to upload to server like you did with quake3...

 

 

 

There is a quake4ded.exe, which when I ran, it started up a game, but I haven't gotten to look at it past that. The dedicated server interface (gui) looked exactly like q3's...

 

 

 

Im working on getting a config built now.

[ECF]

Nice Hogie.

 

 

 

If you feel incline, we could sure use a copy of the files for testing over this way. If you can help, shoot me an email kevin@tcadmin.com

 

 

 

I am grabbing the game tonight to check it out for myself

 

 

 

Thanks

[Hogie]

I finally got a server up and running...

 

 

 

On our Dual Opterons, with 16 players CTF, it is using 65mb memory, and 12 - 14% cpu.

 

 

 

Now to actually get it running from TCAdmin...

 

 

 

 

 

It looks like it only uses 1 port for everything... 28004 is default.

[ECF]

Making a generic config for it right now. Can you confirm the command line variables are the same as Q3 Hogie?

 

 

 

eg. +set net_ip etc...

 

 

 

 

[Hogie]

yes, and you need +spawnserver on the command line also... Or the server wont autostart.

[ECF]

 

 

 

Just found that out the hard way...

[Hogie]

Also, some more stats, 1mbps of bandwidth for the 16 players.

[ECF]

Dont forget to put seta in fornt of you mapcycle command. Otherwise the server simply shuts down after the first map is over.

 

 

 

You can also set the mapcycle and GameType as well.

 

 

[Hogie]

Im actually likeing the mapcycle script... just remove maps you dont want, and waaaam!

[Hogie]

q4main or q4base?

[ECF]

q4base

[Hogie]

Ive been going over the config file I gave you, and half of that stuff is gui/client stuff... I've been cleaning mine out, and commenting it for my lamers... er, gamers.

[ECF]

Cool, feel free to post up an updated one when you can.

 

 

 

I just wanted to get something up that worked, so users could have the game up and testing it.

 

 

 

 

[Hogie]

this is what im using on our servers right now...

 

 

 

As for the config file, I still haven't cleaned it all out, but I did comment the stuff most people will want to edit and moved it to the top.

Hogie-Quake4.txt

[ECF]

I will be sorting through the config file at some point to sift out the uneeded parts.

 

 

 

Once done, I will post an updated config file. A good place to look is the readme.txt file. It has a lot of the server cvars in there that are not listed in the default config file.

 

 

 

 

[Hogie]

Also, I think the rcon is a "modified" rcon for doom3, so I am not sure if it will work correctly...

 

 

 

As for the player list, they did change something. There is now a "Clan Tag" area for users, and that is in the player list where there use to be \0x00\0x00 after the player name, it is now \0x00<Clan Tag>\0x00 if they have a clan tag in there.

[ECF]

OK, here is the latest stripped down version of the config. I just finished testing it on our test server and it works.

 

 

 

This config starts the server in DM mode and utilizes the mapcycle file as well.

 

 

 

Please test it out and let me know if anything is off.

 

 

 

Q4.txt

[ECF]

Also, I think the rcon is a "modified" rcon for doom3, so I am not sure if it will work correctly...

 

 

 

As for the player list, they did change something. There is now a "Clan Tag" area for users, and that is in the player list where there use to be \0x00\0x00 after the player name, it is now \0x00<Clan Tag>\0x00 if they have a clan tag in there.

 

 

 

I have LFA looking into the changes that need to be made for the query.

 

 

 

 

[ECF]

LFA may has taken a look at the query and may release an update for it tonight or tomorrow. I think there was a couple other things he had added as well with the email templates.

[Hogie]

Okay, I found out some stuff I never thought about tonight...

 

 

 

command line vars are processed in order...

 

exec's should be done before any +set's you do... (good example why is because I had set usePass 1, but my cfg had 0 in it, and it was after the +set, so it was overriding it).

 

 

 

put +spawnserver last on the command line so your configs run through first.

 

 

 

Oh well, I guess im stupid.

[coldblooded]

It's missing the closing quote on the capturelimit. Most people will probably catch it, but I couldn't figure out why the limit was always 1 no matter what I set it to until I noticed it. Thanks for sharing!

[ECF]

Oops

 

 

 

I fixed it...