Thank you Alfred for that tidbit. I am used to the quake engine based games creating dot directories but had never looked at the CSS server for them....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Selecting specific content servers > Actually, it is still ClientRegistry.blob, the file is just located > under ~/.steam/ rather than in the game directory. InstallRecord.blob > stores the current version of the content you have so when it talks to > Steam it can quickly get the list of changes (without it you have to > iterate every file and check that it is up to date). > > - Alfred > > ----Original Message---- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kennycom > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:37 AM To: > hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Selecting > specific content servers > >> That would be fine Ian, but if he wants to do it on a Linux server >> then it would be the InstallRecord.blob file that needs to be dumped. >> >> Andrew on the server do you guys have the region set? I was wondering >> if that help the game server pickup content servers closer to your >> location... >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ian mu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com> >> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:42 AM >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Selecting specific content servers >> >> >> > I may be wrong in this, but I think you may be able to stop it using >> > the current one by removing the clientreg.blob file, but you can't >> > dictate which specific other one it will then hop to. As I said, I >> > may be wrong, but I've tried that in the past and it seems to help >> > but may have been coincidence. >> > >> > On 7/29/05, Andrew Forsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Hi there, >> > > >> > > Does anybody know how, or if, you can specify a specific content >> > > server, or list of preferred content servers, for a hl1 or hl2 >> > > server? I understand why you wouldn't want clients doing that, as >> > > the >> > > potential for abuse is huge, especially if it was built into >> > > 'tweak' >> > > scripts that folk run without knowing what they do. >> > > >> > > We seem to be getting updates from halfway across the world, while >> > > there are at least four more suitable servers available locally. >> > > It'd >> > > be nice to override the selection process for content servers. Is >> > > this possible? and if not, could it please be included in a >> > > future update? >> > > >> > > Cheers & thanks, >> > > Andrew >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> > > archives, please visit: >> > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> > archives, please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
