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Noob · Guest Offline

Just wanted to post and say thanks for the Windows build.. I never could get subgame2 working right, but asss seems to work out of the box! (I don't even have MySQL or a biller (that I know of) running and it seems to be just fine.... If i'm just hosting a zone on my little intranet for occasional play, do I need either?

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

What happened when you tried subgame?

Solo Ace · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

I don't think you'll need MySQL (which would only be for an alias database) and you probably don't need a biller either, if it's only on your LAN.

You could've asked for help here with Subgame, heh.

Noob · Guest Offline

I did as rgoodwin in the other forum

Basically massive packet loss/delay even when running biller/subgame/Continuum 0.38 (or even 0.39)
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So I snagged the server binaries and followed the instructions at Shanky.com/server to get my own zone running behind our firewall. My bro-in-law was over and we wanted some 1:1 versus joining a public zone.

Problem is, either/both of us kept getting knocked off the server saying that there was too much delay. I was running the subgame2, subbill, and continuum 0.38 (also tried 0.39) on one PC (IP addr 192.168.0.3) and he was running C 0.38 on the other PC (IP addr 192.168.0.4).

Even if I tried to play just by myself in the zone, I would get kicked out after a few seconds with an error about packet loss/delay between server/client.

Can you run all the components on one PC like that? Any special configuration bits I might need to do if so? It all worked well enough that the two server bits were communicating fine it seemed. I tried tinkering with delay timeouts, etc, but that just let us stay in a LITTLE longer.

We were both on 54g wireless connections on the router, so surely latency shouldn't have been an issue either.

Thanks in advance for help!!!

edit: here is a snippit from subgame2.exe when I am playing by myself on the machine.
Mon Jan 03 19:32:53: No data for 240 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=116)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:53: No data for 220 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=116)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:53: No data for 201 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=116)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:53: No data for 200 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=116)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:54: No data for 200 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=117)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:54: No data for 210 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=117)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:54: No data for 201 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=117)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:54: No data for 220 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=117)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:54: No data for 260 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=117)
Mon Jan 03 19:32:55: No data for 411 ms (mota)(1399610050)(127.0.0.1)(sec=118)
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Solo Ace · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

Noob/rgoodwin · Guest Offline

Ah you say!

BTW system was WinXP + SP1.

Noob/rgoodwin · Guest Offline

As an aside, is there a good tutorial for asss (or subgame that carries over) that talks about bringing in different types of zones? Like I think I've seen Capture the Flag and other types of zones but I don't know how you manage them. I assume you get some files and put them into the arenas directory and then some .conf magic? (Sorry if I'm mixing terms here!!!).

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject:

Well I answered in your other post.

It's generally not a good idea to post your problem in two different topics, as that just confuses people like me.

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rgoodwin · Newbie Joined: Jan 03 2005 Posts: 4 Offline

Cyan,

Didn't mean to, was just posting it as a reference in case these friendly forum folks didn't want to go clicking over there

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

You're welcome. I'm glad to hear you got it all working.

Mysql is completely optional, and actually pretty useless for a small zone. The only thing it's good for is an alias database, unless you write your own modules that use it.

A biller is also optional. You can even get real password security without one (load the auth_file module and type ?help passwd).