GameConnectors Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 OK, so all our servers are HP rackmounted boxes with the standard CD-ROM drive... I want to get Call of Duty 2 on them without having to take my laptop to the data-center and mapping its DVD drive to the servers. Can I install the game on my PC and then just take a copy of the files on an external HD? Or does it actually have to 'installed' to run the server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougK94 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 That will work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameConnectors Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Thanks Doug, thats what i'd hoped.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24play1 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Make sure you take the registry files also though (although not a major thing to upload l8r) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougK94 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 You do not need the registry files, unless you also want to make a clean install for any future patches. They will need to be edited to reflect the location of your clean or 'virgin' install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24play1 Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I mentioned the registry files for patches I don't know any other way to add a patch unless the registry files are on the machine and pointing to the install directory??? Especially as there is a patch on way Its not for a clean install either, its so that you can patch your 'installed files' that you have copied from your portable hardrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougK94 Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 24play1, Doing it your way, you would need to download the patch, install it on the game install you have set in the registry, then edit the registry for the next install, apply patch again, and do it again for each install on that server. Then go to the next server and do it for each install there too. So it would be best to do a clean install on one server, add the registry settings for it, and then when a patch comes out, use the TCA patch script to create the patch, and then use that to patch all of your installs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24play1 Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 no you've misunderstood me (apologies) You've said you don't need them I said you do for patches I have one 'master' on my file server with registry entries on that machine so I can patch the install then use TcAdmin to update all the others as you've said above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameConnectors Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 Thanks again guys. Yes I know you need a 'master installation' somewhere (same as FarCry). I've got a master servern with all the games installed, so I'll just update those and then copy across the files to the relevant game servers. Is the tcadmin script thing easy to set up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24play1 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 You'll find the tool in the Utilities folder within TCAdmin Off the top of my head I think its called UpdateGenerator.exe Have a play with it, its bloody good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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