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Text-mode filling

Discussion in 'Team Fortress 2' started by antou(fr), May 14, 2011.

  1. Anonymous

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    I came up with a solution!
    Just use
    Code:
    "E:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 440 -textmode
    as a shortcut's target. (ofc change to path to yours steam.exe)
    -applaunch 440 makes it launch tf2.
    Don't worry, it won't launch another copy of steam's client, it'll just run tf2 in textmode!
    Hope I helped you, guys ;-)
     
  2. *Gaz

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    You're awesome ^^, now it works.
     
  3. antou(fr)

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    You sure did ^^ . Again many thanks.
     
  4. Doelwit

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    Ok, this is just awesome :)
    Anyone measured the difference in cpu usage using textmode?
    You can still continue to switch from server with the steam browser fortunately :)

    To create a startup shortcut:

    open a new textdocument, paste the following line in it:

    E:\Games\Steam.exe -applaunch 440 -textmode +connect 88.198.69.251:27030 -nosound

    Of course adjust to use you specific path to steam.exe

    Save the document and rename it to join_am1.bat
    So change the .txt extension to.bat
    Doubleclick and your done :)
     
  5. Alias

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    So this way runs tf2 without steam actually loading tf2 up? Instead in a cmd window? If so that's awesome, will try this at home later
     
  6. *Gaz

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    I just had a quick try and here are the results:

    normal mode 800mb memory used and ~16-17% cpu usage
    text mode 726mb memory used 2-3% cpu usage
     
  7. Anonymous

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    No need to do it like that, Doel. Shortcuts (or links as named in some language versions of windows) work without any problems. I guess it's a question whether you want to have "tf2_am1,tf2_am2,tf2_2fort" as little scripts (batch files) or shortcuts. I like shortcuts more, at least I've got the steam icon then.
     
  8. Pablosky

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    There is something like a noprecache startup option so it won't load any models, bring the memory down as well.
     
  9. *Gaz

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    Yeah that's what I thought because the memory usage is still quite high
     
  10. antou(fr)

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    It's looking good :) . By the way, it could be good for admins to be able to kick other admins, to prevent servers to be full with 5/6 fillers that no one can kick...
     
  11. 300_Angry_Kittens

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    Admins should be auto kicked when the server reaches 20/24 or more i believe.
     
  12. *Gaz

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    Or maybe adding a few more slots for admins (24/24 for players +2/24 for admins or something like that )
     
  13. khadgar

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    This textfilling works perfectly.

    One thing, is there a way to get it run on a machine where TF2 wouldn't start?
    My Hyper-V server has a Standard VGA driver loaded (required) so TF2 refuses to start. Textmode didn't work either so if anyone has a suggestion how to solve this.....
    And no, I can't load the manufacturers drivers for the GPU, that would cause my Hyper-V server to stop running its VM's.
     
  14. 300_Angry_Kittens

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    Admins can take the server up to 32/24 if the join using the console. The auto kick works fine.
     
  15. *Gaz

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    For those interested in text-mode filling, I found the following launch options:
    -nopreload
    -nopreloadmodels

    Dont really know the difference between them as the missing files seem to be the same in both cases.
    Anyway, here are the results
    After 5minutes filling with -nopreload : ~580MB memory used
    After 5minutes filling with -nopreloadmodels : ~596.6MB memory used

    Only 200MB saved in both cases, it's not that much...
     
  16. Pablosky

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    Shouldn't you be using both at the same time? :p
     
  17. *Gaz

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    I tried too, but wasnt interesting. To be honest it was worst, 605MB memory used after 5minutes filling ^^

    Edit:

    I'm not sure about the solution I'm going to write, but you should give it a shot.
    Here are a few things that I found:
     
  18. Alias

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    Khadgar - Does your game say its currently unavailable on the your server?
    I had that too when I tried to install it on our server a month or so ago.

    Will try this later on - hopefully it will work :D
     
  19. Anonymous

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    Qball once made a program for this stuff, it was a nice program, I tested it out.

    Qball: Do you still have it? Wanna share it with the rest?
     
  20. Q-Ball

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    Yeah I wrote a small program a while ago, but can't find any trace of it now.
    I also wrote GUI which can launch tf2 in text-mode and connect to the server. I'll check if I have it somewhere at work.