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ZiGGy · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: COD 5

Hello,

We are using Game Create on a single box for all our
servers, everything has been running fine till today.
For some reason we can not get our COD 5 servers to start up
and keep running with Game Create, we are able to make shortcuts of
them (manual) and run them that way but that is it. All our
other servers are fine we run COD 2, COD 4 and COD UO servers all still working fine with Game Create....

This is all we get in the failure report....

Query Failure 1/14/2009 9:23:32 PM
Start GameCreate attempted to start (TNT)Hardcore No Arty/Dogs. 1/14/2009 9:22:40 PM
Stop GameCreate stopped (TNT)Hardcore No Arty/Dogs. 1/14/2009 9:22:37 PM
Start GameCreate attempted to start (TNT)Hardcore No Arty/Dogs. 1/14/2009 9:20:21 PM
Stop GameCreate stopped (TNT)Hardcore No Arty/Dogs. 1/14/2009 9:19:50 PM
Fail Query Failure

And it seems like it did this for most of the day...

any help would be much appreciated....

Thanks

ZiG

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

Andrew · Mammoth

Query Failures mean that GameCreate could not perform a server query on your server.

The server may not be running correctly, you should check the console output when the server is running to see if its online, and also try and query the server yourself via a game browser.

You can disable query status checking via the Host tab if necessary, but that only ignores the problem.

ZiGGy · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:34 am Post subject:

Andrew · Mammoth

Query Failures will not occur if 'Query this server for player information' (or whatever it is) is unticked on the Host the Server is running on.

What you need to do is grab a tool that queries CoD5 servers (HLSW is probably a good choice).

Start the server up manually, ensure you can query the server with HLSW.

Then start it up with GC, and try querying with HLSW as well.

Kybber · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:

... and make sure you query the server from a host outside your local network, if you have a router/firewall.

ZiGGy · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject:

It seems to be a problem with Panel Daemon, we have GameCreate
setup as a service through there (which have always had)
but for some reason COD 5 will now not work like this
if using Gamecreate.... which is kinda a bummer because if the
server crashes it will not restart the game servers without such a setup....

Thanks for the help....

ZiG

Andrew · Mammoth

Kybber · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:30 am Post subject:

Andrew · Mammoth

Ah yep I see.

We agree a service version of GameCreate would be very handy (even for us) for fault tolerance.

You should look in to TweakUI, which allows you to configure your Windows server to automatically login when booting up.

Then simply place GameCreate Client in the 'Startup' group in Start>Program Files>Startup and Client will start up when your computer logs in, which will then start all of your servers again.

Kybber · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:02 am Post subject:

Thanks. I've been planning to enable automatic logon, but was unaware of
tweakuis support for this. I'll look into it.