[Reality]

I am running a LINUX server at the moment. I have installed the majority of games through the GameCreate game install web panel. The only games that seem to work at the moment are: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike source and Call of Duty 2. All other games like: Battlefield 2, Quake 4, and other games like this just will not start. They are installed, i set them up on the website and click start. It says they are running but i cannot view them in programs like: HLSW etc.

Any help with this?

Is this just a problem with LINUX or a problem with my box or just the fact that they havnt been updated via gamecreate. I am confused....

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Pete

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[Reality]

E.G. FOr quake:

LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:18:51 2006: SSL >> ACK: PROCPERF cpu=&id=9350160&memory=&pid=4636
[47 bytes] - result: 47
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:00 2006: ** Got file, name: /root/gamecreate/quake4/q4base/port20040.cfg, size: 2203 **
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:00 2006: ** Got file, name: /root/gamecreate/quake4/q4base/mapcycle.scriptcfg, size: 6949 **
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:00 2006: ** Start GameCreate Booking: ID 9350160 **
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:00 2006: Launching process: /root/gamecreate/quake4/quake4-dedicated +set fs_game q4base +set fs_basepath /root/gamecreate/quake4 +set fs_savepath /root/gamecreate/quake4\20040 +set net_serverdedicated 1 +exec port20040.cfg +set si_maxPlayers 10 +set net_port 20040 +servermaprestart from directory /root/gamecreate/quake4
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:00 2006: SSL >> ACK: START id=9350160&pid=4677
[31 bytes] - result: 31
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:03 2006: Received PING request
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:03 2006: SSL >> ACK: PING
[11 bytes] - result: 11
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:03 2006: Process 4677 was confirmed by master
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:06 2006: ** Fetch system performance data **
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:08 2006: SSL >> ACK: SYSPERF cpu=5.5&disk=39873&memory=2009904
[47 bytes] - result: 47
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:12 2006: Sending PONG, waiting for response
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:12 2006: SSL >> ACK: PONG
[11 bytes] - result: 11
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:33 2006: Received PONG response
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:33 2006: Received PONG response
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:33 2006: Check failed on process 4677 (ID: 9350160)
LOG: Mon Sep 11 03:19:33 2006: SSL >> ACK: CHECKFAILED id=9350160
[28 bytes] - result: 28


And then it just goes into a loop

HELP =*(

[Andrew]

I dont think we have Quake 4 linux on our content server.

Does dedicated software for Q4 even exist for linux?

[Reality]

http://www.dragonbe.be/index.php?module=quake_4

^^

[Reality]

Also, if i was to get a Windows box: could i just install GameCreate on there: and then i could install and run all the games listed on your Games list with ease?

[Andrew]

Most likely yeah, we run the majority of our servers on windows.

We do support Linux, but not as much at the moment due to ourselves mostly running windows servers.

We plan to continue to update and support linux though as we move away from beta.

[Reality]

ahh sounds good. I always thought that linux was a much better platform for running game servers though? or am i wrong? I thought you could fit more servers with that OS.

Also, are all the games up to date? I was wondering because there are frequent patches for games like Q4 and i was wondering whether you update them regularly.

[Reality]

Also, you said you dont have the filed like dedicated linux etc. But, when i click intall it DOES download the files i can see them on my linux box like the folder :eg quake4 with all the files on it and i tries to run the process as showed in the log i pasted. So are you sure that it would work on windows?

[Reality]

sry for english : 4am :p

[Andrew]

Try running the server manually with the same command line gamecreate client used (as per your pasted log) and see what happens.

You may be missing some required libraries

[Reality]

right, i tried doing what you said, and it said "Startup failed "go to http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/ for troubleshooting. I checked all the executables in the quake4 directory and there is one called q4ded.x86
i ran this instead of "quake4-dedicated" (the one in the log) and it created the server and went up.

Obviously, gamecreate tries to run the process ./quake4-dedicated (which doesn't work) instead of ./q4ded.x86 which does.

Is there anyway you can change this in GameCreate so the browser knows to start that process instead of the one that doesnt work. It would make it a whole lot easier to control my servers.

The ip to prove it is running: 81.19.219.142:20040 Quake 4 Server

"EXAMPLE OF quake4-dedicated FILE:"
[root@server quake4]# ./quake4-dedicated
If you read this, then something failed during the setup
See http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/ for troubleshooting

[Andrew]

Try again, GameCreate should run q4ded.x86 this time.

[Reality]

Excellent job mate. It now works perfectly - i know alot of other games ive been trying to run havnt been working also. So i'll have a look at them all tommorow and see whether its just the wrong executables being executed as the case was here and ill post my findings in this topic.

Thanks all the same

Pete

[Andrew]

Thanks for that.

We dont normally run linux servers (as the majority of ours are Windows computers, which most games support over Linux) so do not have everything for Linux mapped out

[Reality]

Well, this is a really strange one. When trying to start bf2 with the GameCreate "start" with the following command:

Command Line: start.sh +config "configs/16567/serversettings.con" +mapList "configs/16567/maplist.con" +pbPath "configs/16567/pb"

this happens:

LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:23 2006: Launching process: /root/gamecreate/bf2/start.sh +config "configs/16567/serversettings.con" +mapList "configs/16567/maplist.con" +pbPath "configs/16567/pb" from directory /root/gamecreate/bf2
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:23 2006: SSL >> ACK: START id=9350354&pid=26916
[32 bytes] - result: 32
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:23 2006: Received PONG response
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:23 2006: Sending PONG, waiting for response
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:23 2006: SSL >> ACK: PONG
[11 bytes] - result: 11
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:26 2006: Process 26916 was confirmed by master
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:26 2006: Received PONG response
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:56 2006: Check failed on process 26916 (ID: 9350354)
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:56 2006: SSL >> ACK: CHECKFAILED id=9350354
[28 bytes] - result: 28
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:56 2006: ** Stop GameCreate Booking: ID 9350354 **
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:56 2006: PID: 26916 does not exist
LOG: Mon Sep 11 14:34:56 2006: SSL >> ACK: STOP id=9350354
[21 bytes] - result: 21

But.. if i paste the exact the same Command into the SSH command line the server runs.... it is strange. Don't really know what the problem is here, either way it is running the exact same command in the same place yet it doesnt seem to start and goes into a loop with GameCreate.

Maybe you can shed some light on this