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Team Fortress 2 Update Topic

Discussion in 'Team Fortress 2' started by Anonymous, Oct 3, 2007.

  1. Doelwit

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    How does it work? If it's server sided i can imagine this will cause heavy diskload for the server i.e. lagg and stutter for the player.
    And imagine you have more than 1 gameserver running on a dedicated, the load will be bigger.

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    yeh it's server sided. The update gave us serveradmins 3 cfg files where we can edit the settings for it.
    We can choose for either local storage ( i.e. on the same machine as the gameserver) or upload it to a host, which means a different machine. We have the ability to do both because lethal-zone rocks!, but I need to dicuss this with snelvuur.
    It will cause extra serverload/harddisk load and bandwidth usage.
    So maybe just on 1 or 2 servers, maybe all. Can't say at this moment.
    Server will need to reboot to enable it btw.
     
  2. Duck

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    Just recorded the first round I could record on a server. The server itself wasn't laggy and was filled with players. It does have it's faults though. See below:
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkEsgkyRmQ[/youtube]
    In the editor I had been using free view since the very first frame, the result still started from my pov for some reason.
    I also play in a 1024*768 resolution. As a result, scoping looks fucked up, the field of view is VERY different from how it looked in my editor, and I can't see any deathnotices (but this might be working as intended?).

    I personally don't like the editor so far. It is actually quite limited
     
  3. Anonymous

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    omg thats bullshit haha why the hell would the make it server sided???? it's the player who's making the video so it should be stored local :roll:
     
  4. Q-Ball

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    We can launch it on AM2 for a short while or on test server.
     
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    Because then you had the same issue as with .dem files I guess, it'd only record players which aren't on the other end of the map.
     
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    its really a STV demo thats automatically managed so clients can pull 'm from the server via http download.

    it also takes a slot.

    Options to improve it are to put those in a folder that is located on a different hard disk etc. but yeah, if the server doesn't have that....

    /edit:
    I just looked around, and there not many servers supporting it. that competition will end up in a competition to FIND a server that supports it.

    I need a dustbowl server that supports it, for I have a project thought up.

    /edit2:
    <a class="postlink" href="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22252858#post22252858" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... st22252858</a>
     
  7. Doelwit

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    it looks likes the server becoming laggy when someone is downloading a demo is a bug. a quote from a valve employee.

    Source
     
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    Optional updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch are now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the updates. The specific changes include:

    Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
    - Fixed a client crash in the material system.

    Team Fortress 2
    - Replay publishing system will try to do a rename for local HTTP mode but will manually copy and delete the file if the rename fails, which can happen if the source and destination are on different volumes.
    - Fixed threading issues on Linux, which was causing major lag spikes.
    - Fixed replay data cleanup system, which cleans up stale data at the end of each round. This asynchronous operation can be explicitly invoked by executing a replay_docleanup command on the server.
    - Removed unused convar, replay_cleanup_time.
    - Saxxy fanfare music wasn't playing on music channel. Music will only play once per launch now and will not play on a changelevel.

    Jason

    "Optional updates" ?????
     
  10. Doelwit

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    Yes, you don't have to run an update. If you don't use replays it's not necessary.
     
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    I suggest you try to join a server that has not been updated with latest.... it wont connect... valve made a update some time ago that client and server versions need to match.
     
  12. Snelvuur

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    Optionals you can still join.,.
     
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    service pack 3 on Windows 7 x64 ??? wut??? /me checks date..... its September 11th 2019
     
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    Updates all tf2 only payload needs a bump, but working atm.