Deus Ex Alpha

Okay everyone,

If you do not know I play Counter-Strike 1.6. I have looked at screen shots of Duex Ex, it looks cool. Recently, The UpStream(new hosting company from the former CollateralFX Hosting Network) purchased a server in Munich, Germany. It runs SuSe Linux, here's the question for you guys. Does the server engine run on any distro of Linux? Or is it entirely windows? I'd be willing to setup you guys a free server -- if you want one just because I'm nice, this server is merely a backup server for our main hosting accounts on this server. Let me know.

Deus Ex runs better on Windows, however Linux is possible too as far as I know. I wish i knew what OS does GamesMajor use.

And yeah, it would be awesome to host a Deus Ex server This small community certainly needs it.

~[A]Daedalus~ wrote:Deus Ex runs better on Windows, however Linux is possible too as far as I know. I wish i knew what OS does GamesMajor use.

And yeah, it would be awesome to host a Deus Ex server This small community certainly needs it.

Okay,

First off if you guys in Europe and stuff would mind doing some ping test for me it would help me a little try pinging venus.theupstream.net or the IP 83.133.125.113 Tell me what average MS you get.

Secondly, if you guys and find me the downloads or at least the site where I can get the files to host the server(I probably can figure out the rest but if I get lost I'll be certain to ask you guys).

Average ping: 24ms

Then I'll prepare for you a server with pre-installed mods and tweaks so you will only have to turn it on. I will have finished it by tomorrow or the day after
+ What OS will it be running on?
++ Average ping is 76 ms

Great guys. I'm gonna look more into this game, I'll be a newbie but oh well.

Everyone started as a newbie
When I first played DeusEx:MultiPlayer, I couldn't even speak decent English.
I still don't have fighting skills, but I am a 'bit' skilled in the coding and mapping parts of the game. It just takes time, but I love Deus Ex because it's easy to edit.

Nanyo wrote:Great guys. I'm gonna look more into this game, I'll be a newbie but oh well.

Let us know if you need training
And keep in mind that it's very dynamic in comparison to Counter Strike. In DXMP you have to move (at least randomly) always, even when you camp (that happens very rarely). Just i have seen a CS player recently, who was trying to use his CS strategies on DXMP. His score was like 1 - 20.
DXMP is very fun and different. Starting on normal aug games, finishing on MMORPG-like gametypes.

Hehe, well I'm all for something new. I'll certainly give it a try.

P.S. Dae, we will be enabling weekly backups soon, for every account on the server.

Edit: OS is SuSe 9.1 (if that's possible)

Average 44ms

Average 59 ms

Average 19 ms

if you go into putting server on, just dont put 0aug on ok? dxmp was ment to be augged, its already enough fucked with all these 0aug servers. put on aug server, and you will get the support of the best dxmp clans. put on 0aug server, and the best dxmp clans wont like you. as you choose.


we also hope you know what you are doing. if this server will be only for dxmp purpose, then its ok, but if you will be hosting something else on aswell, then you will prolly reconsider hosting dxmp server, since it uses terrible much resources. with 10 good players it takes 100% of cpu with speed around 3ghz. i hope thats told enough. oh and for linux, you will need wine emulation, so count even some higher cpu usage.

Augs and zero augs servers is balanced now, so there's no need for you to outbalance augs and completely obliterate zero augs.

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397ms.

Eh...We can still give it a try it's not a biggie.

DejaVu wrote:if you go into putting server on, just dont put 0aug on ok? dxmp was ment to be augged, its already enough fucked with all these 0aug servers. put on aug server, and you will get the support of the best dxmp clans. put on 0aug server, and the best dxmp clans wont like you. as you choose.

Deja you know that i don't really care about such things as respect of dxmp clans However I'd like to host augs, but not ATDM.

DarkKnight wrote:397ms.

Lol Aussie. Are you still on 56k?

~[A]Daedalus~ wrote:

DarkKnight wrote:397ms.

Lol Aussie. Are you still on 56k?

Nope. 512/512 adsl, just sucks being so far away from the server.


(I'd host an aussie DX server, but no one would play...)

I would.

DejaVu wrote:if you go into putting server on, just dont put 0aug on ok? dxmp was ment to be augged, its already enough fucked with all these 0aug servers. put on aug server, and you will get the support of the best dxmp clans. put on 0aug server, and the best dxmp clans wont like you. as you choose.


we also hope you know what you are doing. if this server will be only for dxmp purpose, then its ok, but if you will be hosting something else on aswell, then you will prolly reconsider hosting dxmp server, since it uses terrible much resources. with 10 good players it takes 100% of cpu with speed around 3ghz. i hope thats told enough. oh and for linux, you will need wine emulation, so count even some higher cpu usage.

DejaVu, you host a lot of augged servers, but they're not really being used... and you say we need even more augged servers?

Nick this is excellent! Not only the fact your going to join in the game but the fact your going to host for free! Thanks matey! And deja, DX does not take anywhere near that much processor speed. You could host on less than 1gig CPU/512Meg of memory and it would be fine.

~[A]Daedalus~ wrote:

DejaVu wrote:if you go into putting server on, just dont put 0aug on ok? dxmp was ment to be augged, its already enough fucked with all these 0aug servers. put on aug server, and you will get the support of the best dxmp clans. put on 0aug server, and the best dxmp clans wont like you. as you choose.

Deja you know that i don't really care about such things as respect of dxmp clans However I'd like to host augs, but not ATDM.

thats good, as long as its not 0aug everything is fine. even only 2 augs as on nobody's server. so ppl arent so dumb playing on ATDM server and not using augs at all.

~D[A]rren~ wrote:Nick this is excellent! Not only the fact your going to join in the game but the fact your going to host for free! Thanks matey! And deja, DX does not take anywhere near that much processor speed. You could host on less than 1gig CPU/512Meg of memory and it would be fine.

how many servers you host?

dont tell me the situation. ive tested much and i know how it works. using 60 tickrate (if you wanna put on good server of course). with 6 players, p4 2,8 gig with 1 meg L2 was on 0-2% cpu usage. then the 7th player joined, it jumped on 30-40% cpu, with 8 players, it was 60%, with 9 80% and with 10 peaked to 100% already (when good skilled auggers played). same shit with amds, just a lil different. they use like 20% cpu with 1 player in, then it goes up and eventually ends around the same.

the engine is just completely fucked up when it comes to hosting servers.

oh and, if you host for lazy newbs, that hardly move around, the cpu usage, of course, is not high.

I'm still gonna give it a try and see how it goes.

DejaVu wrote:oh and, if you host for lazy newbs, that hardly move around, the cpu usage, of course, is not high.

Err...

You do know that moving or not has nothing to do with CPU load... right? The Server needs to calculate your location regardless of if you move or not, it is just the way it needs to be. If it didn't, then it would be buggy as holy hell.

DarkKnight wrote:

DejaVu wrote:oh and, if you host for lazy newbs, that hardly move around, the cpu usage, of course, is not high.

Err...

You do know that moving or not has nothing to do with CPU load... right? The Server needs to calculate your location regardless of if you move or not, it is just the way it needs to be. If it didn't, then it would be buggy as holy hell.

Didn't you know? If you don't move, you're invisible, since the server doesn't know where you are, because it wont calculate etc. your location to reduce CPU usage.

Hi guys.. honestly talking.. we already got a lot of aug servers.. and they are usually empty.. maybe soon we lost our loved GamesMajor.. why doesn't make this one 0 augs if it is good? because for my personal opinion except GM there aren't very good 0 augs servers.. but hey.. thats only my idea.. lets see other opinions..

~[A]lex~ wrote:

DarkKnight wrote:

DejaVu wrote:oh and, if you host for lazy newbs, that hardly move around, the cpu usage, of course, is not high.

Err...

You do know that moving or not has nothing to do with CPU load... right? The Server needs to calculate your location regardless of if you move or not, it is just the way it needs to be. If it didn't, then it would be buggy as holy hell.

Didn't you know? If you don't move, you're invisible, since the server doesn't know where you are, because it wont calculate etc. your location to reduce CPU usage.

Riiight...

So I suppose if I stand still in the middle of A51, I'll never get hit?

DarkKnight wrote:

~[A]lex~ wrote:

DarkKnight wrote:

DejaVu wrote:oh and, if you host for lazy newbs, that hardly move around, the cpu usage, of course, is not high.

Err...

You do know that moving or not has nothing to do with CPU load... right? The Server needs to calculate your location regardless of if you move or not, it is just the way it needs to be. If it didn't, then it would be buggy as holy hell.

Didn't you know? If you don't move, you're invisible, since the server doesn't know where you are, because it wont calculate etc. your location to reduce CPU usage.

Riiight...

So I suppose if I stand still in the middle of A51, I'll never get hit?

That is correct sir!

~[A]lex~ wrote:

DarkKnight wrote:

~[A]lex~ wrote:

DarkKnight wrote:

DejaVu wrote:oh and, if you host for lazy newbs, that hardly move around, the cpu usage, of course, is not high.

Err...

You do know that moving or not has nothing to do with CPU load... right? The Server needs to calculate your location regardless of if you move or not, it is just the way it needs to be. If it didn't, then it would be buggy as holy hell.

Didn't you know? If you don't move, you're invisible, since the server doesn't know where you are, because it wont calculate etc. your location to reduce CPU usage.

Riiight...

So I suppose if I stand still in the middle of A51, I'll never get hit?

That is correct sir!

Well paint me pink and call me Fred!

whenever i stand still i get blown to peices...