3.0 dedicated is bombing on me

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:05 pm

System is running Windows 2000 SP4 - fresh install.

I loaded the 3.0 release last night and it's died twice on me this morning. I get disconnected like the system lost it's network connection -yet the Internet and everything else runs just fine. The console doesn't even accept any keyboard strokes. How do I troubleshoot this?

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:17 pm

Tried doing a recording? That would be the most helpful debug information.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:30 am

Tank Program wrote:Tried doing a recording? That would be the most helpful debug information.

ok, i made the recording. I just noticed that the server terminates but stays active. The window that it was running in was at a c:\ and I could type text into it this last time. I noticed the machine was running poor so I went into the task manager and the dedicated_server was running at 99%cpu. I closed the dos window and it cleared the server instance from running.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:14 am

No luck playing this back here. The AIs do different things. Would it be possible to get another recording without them? Otherwise, this is on my "to try when I boot into Windows next time" list.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:53 am

Here's another recording with the AI's turned off. Thanks for the help

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:05 pm

just an fyi - I removed 3.0 and installed 2.8 and that's running smooth. No problems at all and it's been up all day.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:52 pm

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:56 pm

Oh yeah. Sorry, the second recording didn't play back all too well either (a bit better than the first), so I'm waiting for the next Windows boot cycle.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:05 am

Thanks. Here are the settings in case you would like to see how they behave for you.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:15 pm

hmm, sorry. I played a bit with the config. Nothing unusual. I played back the recording. It doesn't crash or hang, I just get the usual "recording ends here, prepare for a crash" message. The crash doesn't come.

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:02 am

It's running the older build just fine and I don't know if I'm going to keep a third game server up or not, so let's just put this one to bed.

Thanks though - and I do appreciate the efforts.