RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...[OT]

2005-08-15 Thread Rick Payton
loved the jay and silent bob reference sandy :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SANDY LEBLANC Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 6:53 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS... [ Converted text/html to text/plain

Re: [hlds] Roll back on client

2005-08-15 Thread Shawn Zipay
FFS. All I said was that x64 is not supported by Valve. Meaning they don't have to rollback anything for an operating system that they do not officially support. I know they are looking into 64 bit extentions, but that does not mean they are officially offering technical support or offering

RE: [hlds] Roll back on client

2005-08-15 Thread Alexander Kobbevik
. Roll back on client... This has nothing to do with this server-list unless someone claims that the server is affected.. which I have not seen yet. Saying that Steam.exe is the problem and therefore affect both servers and clients is just silly. That other clients is affected when someone

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Clayton Macleod wrote: I think perhaps a refresher is warranted here, since you're forgetting one basic fact, which is even mentioned in the article listed. How many kernels have you built? Virtual Memory is always in use, even when the memory required by all running processes does not

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
uh, yeah. Like I said, you need a refresher. It's quite apparent from your disabling the paging executive statement. Clearly you think you are disabling something called the paging executive which you think means you're causing the OS to hit the pagefile less. Sorry to tell you, but the

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Clayton - you have mostly understood the articles you have read. Whilst you understand the general principle of a paging system, clearly, you misunderstand that they are systematic, logical and non-optimal as with caching algorithms. Clayton Macleod wrote: MS themselves say that there is no way

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Well it doesn't matter to me unless the servers are available, until that time I have no interest, so please keep your player issues to the player oriented forums, thank you. stalker333 wrote: Valve, Wasn't going to post about this, but every time I look at it, it pisses me off. S...

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Clayton Macleod wrote: uh, yeah. Like I said, you need a refresher. It's quite apparent from your disabling the paging executive statement. Clearly you think you are disabling something called the paging executive which you think means you're causing the OS to hit the pagefile less. Sorry

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
hahahaha, I'm just having a conversation, Mr. Angry Eyes. On 8/15/05, James Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go check explorer performance in this scenario and fuck off with your arrogance. If you think that dynamic systems can be optimised form the theoretical standpoint then you have little

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
actually, no, task manager doesn't tell you exactly what you think it is telling you. If MS didn't purge their beta newsgroups after the end of their betas I could find a quote for you. (dammit) I'm not sure if a similar explanation is in any of their public docs or not. I'll take a look in the

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Clayton Macleod wrote: actually, no, task manager doesn't tell you exactly what you think it is telling you. If MS didn't purge their beta newsgroups after the end of their betas I could find a quote for you. (dammit) I'm not sure if a similar explanation is in any of their public docs or not.

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
re: memory reporting, even the working set value you get from the 'performance monitor' doesn't really necessarily tell you how much RAM the process is actually using just for itself, because this value includes any shared memory, not just private memory. I'm honestly sorry that I can't recall

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
well, I guess there would be some collateral damage done since there will be slightly less RAM available for the apps to use, since the executive isn't being paged anymore. So indirectly the amount of application paging would increase, though I don't think it would be enough of an impact to worry

RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread stalker333
Nobody shat in my cereal. What first message? That was in regards to another issue, 64bit support... I'm not upset at anyone in specific, nor am I trying to bitch. What bugs me, is that DOD:S isn't out yet, and has been in the coming soon catagory for Lets see, since Oct 5th of 04. Now,

Re: [hlds] Roll back on client

2005-08-15 Thread stalker333
Shawn, Yep, if all you are talking about is the rollback, obviously. You acted like, however, that anyone with 64bit boxes should expect NO support, thats simply not the case. On top of that, the only way they are going to get any decent support is by making is as easy as possible for Valve

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Clayton Macleod wrote: re: memory reporting, even the working set value you get from the 'performance monitor' doesn't really necessarily tell you how much RAM the process is actually using just for itself, because this value includes any shared memory, not just private memory. I'm honestly

Re: [hlds] Roll back on client

2005-08-15 Thread [GS]BeNt
- Original Message - From: stalker333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sigh Why does this list have such a troll infestation Find something useful to add, or DONT ADD ANYTHING to the conversation. Good Day... -Smurf Kinda ironic,don't ya think..its like rain... On the 64bit note while

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread [GS]BeNt
- Original Message - From: stalker333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] What bugs me, is that DOD:S isn't out yet, and has been in the coming soon catagory for Lets see, since Oct 5th of 04. Now, they have added yet another game/mod/episode whatever to coming soon. Ever think there is alot more

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
Been too long I guess, I don't recall. For some reason my memory seems to do better with the meat than with the potatoes. Yeah, I addressed the collateral stuff in my next post there. I'm not saying the executive memory space is unimportant. I only said that applications' memory space isn't

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Dustin Tuft
Minor interjection.. Did I miss understand the whole point of mixing Virtual and Physical ram? was it not the point of the OS telling the App where and how to get memory, and if I am not mistaken, Apps don't even directly touch ram, that little interface called HAL handles it, so as far as the

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
Clayton Macleod wrote: Been too long I guess, I don't recall. For some reason my memory seems to do better with the meat than with the potatoes. Yeah know that problem, last time I touched sendmail was nearly 5 years ago now, and I looked at the config the other day in shock. :) Yeah, I

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
well, the point there wasn't that servers are going to have superfluous hardware. The point was that pretty much nothing is going to cause every single page used by the executive to be active enough to keep it all in ram at all times. Given that this is likely to be way under a hundred megs, way

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
yeah, basically apps just deal with virtual memory, and the OS is what deals between RAM and the pagefile. Each app gets its own 2gigs of address space to allocate memory for itself from, and the OS is what determines the actual RAM/pagefile usage. On 8/15/05, Dustin Tuft [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Drew Hostetler
Games aren't made in days. DoD:S is much more than a port. I believe I read somewhere that they originally thought it would be mostly a port (which prompted the Coming Soon listing in Steam), but they decided to overhaul a bunch of stuff to make it a much better game. Have you seen the

[hlds] Fwd: [HLSW-announce] HLSW 1.0.0.44 released

2005-08-15 Thread List Keeper
Small HLSW update to version 1.0.0.44 Changelog - Included BeetlesMod support - Included Battlefield 2 support - Included support for extended GameSpy protocol = BF2 Player display works on server with many players - Some small changes Download -

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread SANDY LEBLANC
[ Converted text/html to text/plain ] The only time I hear Activision named is when someone refers to the original DoD not the port over. IMO, I think VALVe is soley doing the port over. From: Roc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject:

RE: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread ray
Your HLDS and SRCDS work don't they? STFU and go join a chatroom somewhere or shack up as roommates. Either way STFU. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clayton Macleod Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:42 AM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com

Re: [hlds] Fwd: [HLSW-announce] HLSW 1.0.0.44 released

2005-08-15 Thread Whisper
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Yay, I was looking for an update just the other night. On 8/16/05, List Keeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Small HLSW update to version 1.0.0.44 http://1.0.0.44 Changelog - Included BeetlesMod support - Included Battlefield 2 support -

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
On 8/15/05, Dustin Tuft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minor interjection.. Did I miss understand the whole point of mixing Virtual and Physical ram? was it not the point of the OS telling the App where and how to get memory, and if I am not mistaken, Apps don't even directly touch ram, that little

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread James Tucker
On 8/15/05, Clayton Macleod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, the point there wasn't that servers are going to have superfluous hardware. The point was that pretty much nothing is going to cause every single page used by the executive to be active enough to keep it all in ram at all times. Ah

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread stalker333
Yes, it did, but that wasn't really my point. Point is, having 2-3 games almost done doesn't help anyone. Look I understand everyone gets defensive of Valve, and usually for good reason (they are being blamed for something stupid) but this, frankly, is only Valve. Now, call me crazy, but I

RE: [hlds] VAC2 et Cheating Death ?

2005-08-15 Thread Alfred Reynolds
We are communicating to the CD team on this issue. - Alfred Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oum Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 6:12 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] VAC2 et Cheating Death ? yes that is exactly why we

Re: [hlds] VAC2 et Cheating Death ?

2005-08-15 Thread Oum
ok thank you, at least we know you care about it ^^ - Original Message - From: Alfred Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] VAC2 et Cheating Death ? We are communicating to the CD team on this issue. -

RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Megatron
I agree. This is getting way old. Is anyone impressed with the screenshots? The game isn't out yet and the released pics look substandard. I'm wondering if it will look as good as HL2. I have had a 24/7 DoD server since the beta days. I think I may jump ship to newer games like Battlefield 2. Let

RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Napier, Kevin
Jump (at least for now), it's much more fun. (no offense meant to valve just my honest opinion) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Megatron Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:06 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Coming Soon

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread DLinkOZ
From a server point of view, you'll be MUCH more frustrated with BF2. Just a word of warning. I would suggest joining their mailing list and lurk for just a day or two to get a feel for the discontent there. - Original Message - From: Napier, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Ruiner
Hehe, you guys are frustrated that your game is listed in Coming Soon? You don't know how lucky you are! The TFC community has been left in the dark for so long... ! TFC:S? TF:2? Who knows. Be happy at least the mod is coming soon... ___ To

RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Napier, Kevin
yes I definatly meant from a game point of view, not a server admin point of view, though the tools are much better this time around, but certainly hlds scrs are easier to run. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DLinkOZ Sent: Monday, August

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread OoksServer
I suppose I'm somewhat obligated to complain about not having the OP4 source, etc :-) Quake 4. It's The Next Big Thing, and there is a good chance that you will see Ooks Steaming Pile of Crap becoming Ooks Quaking Pile of Crap v.4 by the end of the year. DeathMatch was the first love of my life,

[hlds] Re: hlds digest, Vol 1 #3928 - 11 msgs

2005-08-15 Thread Tum
Speaking of DOD:S and another game being in the comming soon section. What about HLDM1:Source that was announced a few weeks back? Any more news on that? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: hlds

Re: [hlds] Re: hlds digest, Vol 1 #3928 - 11 msgs

2005-08-15 Thread m0gely
Tum wrote: Speaking of DOD:S and another game being in the comming soon section. What about HLDM1:Source that was announced a few weeks back? Any more news on that? I'm holding out for Ricochet:Source. -- - m0gely http://quake2.telestream.com/ Q2 | Q3A | Counter-strike

RE: [hlds] Re: hlds digest, Vol 1 #3928 - 11 msgs

2005-08-15 Thread ray
Gunman Chronicles:Source :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of m0gely Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:48 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Re: hlds digest, Vol 1 #3928 - 11 msgs Tum wrote: Speaking of DOD:S and another

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
nah, that's ok. On 8/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your HLDS and SRCDS work don't they? STFU and go join a chatroom somewhere or shack up as roommates. Either way STFU. -- Clayton Macleod get ye flask You cannot get ye flask.

Re: [hlds] Re: hlds digest, Vol 1 #3928 - 11 msgs

2005-08-15 Thread OoksServer
I missed this announcement. Anyone have details? And does this include any other HL1 mods (like OP4 :) :) :)? Speaking of DOD:S and another game being in the comming soon section. What about HLDM1:Source that was announced a few weeks back? Any more news on that?

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
well, I'm not sure we're saying the exact same thing. The point I was trying to make was, that while a great portion of the executive's memory is going to be active all the time, and stay in RAM, a portion of it will also go unused and be candidates for the pagefile. I said I doubt that

[hlds] Possible hack

2005-08-15 Thread Chris K
OK, I'm freaking out here. Someone is running mani + console commands on my box and it's not me or any of my two other admins. I was even frozen once before I dropped out to see who,what, why this is happening. First thing I did was change RCON password and restart the server. I join and all is

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Whisper
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Pre-Ordering Game Software is one of the great scams of the 21st century It seems that some people, regardless of how many times they get punched in the head, are never going to learn. The other great scam is, Computer Hardware Pre-Ordering

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Jason
Ya know this is coming from the same people who bought TFC 2 and pre-ordered their copy. I dont understand why people keep buying these games when theres nothing to buy. So you pre-ordered a game. Wow. As most of us will be doing, we'll be paying full prices to just download a game. Another thing

[hlds] Just a little ranting

2005-08-15 Thread Jason
Here are a few things that I've heard about but seen little or no action being placed for such. 1. Team Fortress Classic 2.People even pre-ordered their copies of the game 2. Half-Life 2 Lost Coast...so its on the soon to come list...I'll believe it when I see it. 3. Half-Life 2: Aftermath.

Re: [hlds] Just a little ranting

2005-08-15 Thread hlds
Please STFU this is not a rant mailing list. It is for people who need help with there servers. I for one don't care when a game comes out aslong as it comes out and it gets supported. I installed bf2 (EA is Crap) and god i am very happy for valve and steam. Saves alot for troulbe so please

RE: [hlds] Just a little ranting

2005-08-15 Thread SANDY LEBLANC
[ Converted text/html to text/plain ] 1: there is no team fortress classic 2. It's TF2. 3:dod:s hasn't been on coming soon for decades fool. If you're goin to rant, do it without exagerating cause you just make yourself look worse then you already do for ranting on a help mailing list. If

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread T3XAN
Ok I'll respond to this just because Im tired of hearing about it, if you would have taken the time to read what was said about the new game (Ragdoll Kung Fu) you would have noticed Valve is not developing it. It is being developed by a private developer. Valve is just putting it on Steam. Yes Im

[hlds] Half Life server problems

2005-08-15 Thread Jason
I'm having severe problems with my server, listen or dedicated. For my listen server, my listenserver.cfg is as follows. ip [external ip hidden] port 27015 sv_region 0 sv_lan 0 // Execute the Admin Mod configuration file exec addons/adminmod/config/adminmod.cfg and is placed in D:\Program

Re: [hlds] DoD Exploit

2005-08-15 Thread Erling K. Sæterdal
I released the plugin: http://www.amxmodx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=144889 The person who first replyed and said he would be willing to help test it never gave any feedback, so i posted it publicly. Those who install it on their server, please give feedback. And and read the first post in the

Re: [hlds] Just a little ranting

2005-08-15 Thread Jason
No one forced you to open my email and write a reply. Get over it and get on with your life eh? Had you not told me STFU I would've saved you the trouble of reciving another email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please STFU this is not a rant mailing list. It is for people who need help with there

Re: [hlds] Just a little ranting

2005-08-15 Thread SANDY LEBLANC
[ Converted text/html to text/plain ] Dude, dio you not understand the concept of HLDS maining list? What you're ranting about isn't even server related so all you're doing is spamming it! -- From: Jason [EMAIL

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread Clayton Macleod
uh, nobody mentioned Ragdoll Kung Fu...they're talking about Lost Coast, DoDS, (TFC2, Aftermath)... On 8/15/05, T3XAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I'll respond to this just because Im tired of hearing about it, if you would have taken the time to read what was said about the new game (Ragdoll

Re: [hlds] Just a little ranting

2005-08-15 Thread Alex Spencer
Children. Calm Down. This is the HLDS (and srcds) mailing list. *NOT* the I want to rant about valve and steam to people who are trying to get help with their servers mailing list. Jason, you are in the wrong here, shouting doesn't make you right. If you wish to complain about steam stuff, go

Re: [hlds] Possible hack

2005-08-15 Thread Drew Hostetler
I had something similar happen to me once but mani was not involved. Someone who had just connected to the server (not even in the game yet) managed to hack the quite complex rcon password and start spamming dozens of lines of hahahahahahaha as console chat all within one second. When I noticed

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread stalker333
Drew, How long do you think they have been working on DOD:S (not when beta opened), which WAS just a port when they started? Just wonder a guess. Days? I would hardly be bitching about that, and frankly would have been very impressed lol. Now we can go on and on talking about WHY it's not

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread stalker333
Can't speak to this specifically, but since play testing of DOD:S has taken over the Valve office I think it's safe to say they at least have some input ;-) -Smurf Message: 5 From: SANDY LEBLANC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS... Date: Mon,

Re: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread stalker333
Ruiner, Thank you for pointing that out, I started playing TFC and still do, would LOVE to see a TFC port. However, valve has pretty much poo pooed all over that idea, in favor of TF2. Which is fine with me, at least they don't CLAIM we'll get TFC:S. Though they never said we wouldnt get

Re: [hlds] windows 2003 memory tweaking

2005-08-15 Thread Dustin Tuft
Gold huh, I wonder what it was missing as far as internal comments. Did you ever get the red sections of text that were source code? I can't even count how many stupid times I got that talk on we do not release or copy red source out of KB articles. I mean realy, like who I am going to take it to

RE: [hlds] Coming Soon BS...

2005-08-15 Thread list
Hey... Get in line :) We are still demanding an update for TFC first! Whether it's TFC:S or TF2 I could give a rats ass.. I just want Valve to know that they *DO* have responsibilities besides CS :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On