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rec

Hi there,

Our Call of Duty 4 server fails to start. The failures report seems to think it keeps trying, failing, trying, failing.

Also; two test Ventrilo servers have said "Updating" for 2 days now. I would stop them and remove them, but there's no button to stop them. Can someone please explain what the deal is here?

Thanks!

Regards,
Jamie

adbot · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:57 am

~Zedge~ · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

My first thought on the cod4 server would be a query failure. I might be wrong, so post the error log here Smile

On the ventrillo servers, ventrillo has stringent liscense agreements which require you to physically download and install their server files yourself. thus the GC installer wont be any good for this.

What you need to do is delete the servers and when you go to install ventrillo, you will be given a tick box option to say that you dont want GC to install all the files as you will do that (or something like that if i remember Very Happy

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But...remember that the free version of ventrillo can only have a maximum number of 8 slots per server... so you might want to consider this Smile

Post your error report for the cod server Smile

Hope this helps,

Zedge.

rec · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

I can't delete the Ventrilo servers unfortunately - they're stuck in "Updating" mode and have been since launch. Can't stop/remove at all.

As for the COD4 log - where do I find this?

rec · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject:

Anybody?

Steve · Mammoth

Hi rec I'm just looking into this for you now.

Checking out the error vent is giving, and have reverted the command line for your cod4 server to default.

Steve · Mammoth

I've reinstalled Ventrilo for you, and they seem to be working as normal.

I see you are reinstalling? CoD4 and haven't started up your server again.

rec · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

Steve; I've resinstalled COD4 and started another server, but with the same issue.

Steve · Mammoth

I'll do another reinstall for you and have a quick look.

rec · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject:

Brilliant! Thanks mate.

rec · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

I see you're getting the same problem as me (shutdown/attempt to start cycle).

I'm not sure if it will help, but someone mentioned changing cod4_launch.exe's name to iw3mp.exe and that fixed their issue of it not starting. I'd do it via FTP, but it doesn't seem to allow me.

Steve · Mammoth

Tried that, and it's not working.

I'll have to have a look at it for you tomorrow sorry rec.

rec · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

No worries - I'll check back here tommorrow. Thanks for your help!

Edit: oh actually, for reference, when I said to rename it, that's not actually what the suggestion was. It was the other way around (so the server uses iw3mp.exe instead of cod4_launch.exe).

rec · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:

Hi Steve,

Still no resolution here, after trying again numerous times. Any more ideas there?

I'm told if the server uses Windows, a recent DX dll is required.

Steve · Mammoth

Hi rec sorry for the late reply.

Yes that's correct, you do need a current version of DirectX installed on windows servers to successfully run CoD4. (November 2007 or later)

CoD4 will consistently 'crash' in GameCreate if it is not installed on the host machine.

I've just checked and found an old version to be running on that host. It's now updated and CoD4 is working on your server.