***OFFICAL*** Left 4 Dead Thread!

Here are some screenshots. It doesnt look too bad because the pics are small. Im have to play 640*480 on a 19" monitor. I looks worse than doom did...
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Right, third server should be up and running now.

Accidentally typed "-fork 333" into the startup (rather than "-fork 3")...that was almost *very* bad :p
 
Repta said:
Here are some screenshots. It doesnt look too bad because the pics are small. Im have to play 640*480 on a 19" monitor. I looks worse than doom did...
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Dude the game looks awful :( upgrade your pc immediately!! Seems your card/drivers are having a problem with transparencies as well : / what is your spec?
 
Aekeron said:
Yeah, as far as I'm aware it's decto that has sorted his server out - Seaniboy was meant to be closing his down? Or perhaps Seaniboy *has* closed his and decto's is still knackered? I don't know - it'd be good to know for sure. Decto was OcUK 6 and Seaniboy OcUK 5 (and later 4).

Just to ask for more clarification about this - are any of the servers apart from mine (1 and 2 currently) working properly? If one of them is I need to know which one and i'll contact the owner and ask them to change the search key. If not, I'll just carry on using "ocuk1" for my servers and perhaps also change the group key so that the others don't show up in the 'group server' bit in L4D.

Originally I ran 4 servers (OcUK 1 - 4) and had two of them set to Vs and two set to coop. This turned out to be kind of pointless as the lobby would override vs or coop mode with its own settings. As such, I've not bothered changing this side of the initial map choice...It'd be simple enough to update it though and I'll try to get that done today/tonight when I enable the third server.

I could possibly enable a fourth server of my own again at some point but I'll have to balance this against the other applications running on the (physical) server.
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As far as I know, when I have used the old "ocuk" key, it goes to a server with a banner in orange saying "OcUK 6" with a black background. This is the server I have seen with performance issues.

Don't think I've been put on 3-5 recently, to my knowledge. If FragM 1 & 2 are busy the key ocuk1 doesn't work and no games are found. Which suggests to me they are the only ones responding on it atm.

When we use the ocuk1 key, it nearly always finds your servers pretty quick and they run like a charm when they are free.

So it seems that we are all operating out of 2 servers as of yesterday night. No idea if it's Seani's servers or Decto's that are going mad, but I'm confident they haven't got the new key on yet.

In a nutshell, I'm always on the FragM servers these days and haven't seen the others at all, unless i use "OCUK" key and then it takes me to afformentioned borked server with orange tag in top right when you press "tab" in game.

If Seani and Decto are here and can respond with some updates and we can get a list of IP's I'd be more than happy to get some lads on each one to test later on?
 
Knubje said:
As far as I know, when I have used the old "ocuk" key, it goes to a server with a banner in orange saying "OcUK 6" with a black background. This is the server I have seen with performance issues.

Don't think I've been put on 3-5 recently, to my knowledge. If FragM 1 & 2 are busy the key ocuk1 doesn't work and no games are found. Which suggests to me they are the only ones responding on it atm.

When we use the ocuk1 key, it nearly always finds your servers pretty quick and they run like a charm when they are free.

So it seems that we are all operating out of 2 servers as of yesterday night. No idea if it's Seani's servers or Decto's that are going mad, but I'm confident they haven't got the new key on yet.

In a nutshell, I'm always on the FragM servers these days and haven't seen the others at all, unless i use "OCUK" key and then it takes me to afformentioned borked server with orange tag in top right when you press "tab" in game.

If Seani and Decto are here and can respond with some updates and we can get a list of IP's I'd be more than happy to get some lads on each one to test later on?
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Cheers for the info. Does kind of sound like decto's server is still bad, or hasn't been played on since he sorted it (as far as I'm aware it was a 'fix' that required him to monitor the server and reboot/reset it every so often - not much fun for him, I imagine).

Hopefully decto/seaniboy will see this thread. I probably won't spam them with emails as from memory, they're both even more busy than me at the moment (and I spend my nights after work..working...so that's quite busy) :)
 
Repta said:
I was using a 3870 until yesterday when it died :(. Cant justify spending too much on an upgrade because i away in 3 weeks to travel asia for 2 months.

Spec is, e6400 @3.2ghz, 4gb 800mhz, fx5600....
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Just grab a cheap as chips 8600GT/9500GT.

I'm currently running L4D on a 9500GT @ 1680x1050 @ MED Settings smooth as butter while my GTX260 is on RMA.
 
Repta said:
I was using a 3870 until yesterday when it died :(. Cant justify spending too much on an upgrade because i away in 3 weeks to travel asia for 2 months.

Spec is, e6400 @3.2ghz, 4gb 800mhz, fx5600....
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Well that's fair enough, yeah those FX's were bottom of the line 2 or 3 years ago, hell even my dad has better than that (thanks to me) and he still plays Red Alert, but I suppose it's a question of priorities :D
 
HeX said:
Just grab a cheap as chips 8600GT/9500GT.

I'm currently running L4D on a 9500GT @ 1680x1050 @ MED Settings smooth as butter while my GTX260 is on RMA.
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Too true, I'm running on a 2.5year old 8800GTS 312mb and LFD runs fine. Got a dual core and 3gb RAM.

No problems, except Dead Air for a few seconds when the plane crashes, I could fix it and crank down settings - but for something that happens once in a blue moon - no point :)
 
HeX said:
Just grab a cheap as chips 8600GT/9500GT.

I'm currently running L4D on a 9500GT @ 1680x1050 @ MED Settings smooth as butter while my GTX260 is on RMA.
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Interesting - I had to run it on my lappie's 8600GT when my 280 died, and I couldn't get 60fps+ @ 1280x800, all details on low and no AA :(
 
LinktoInsanity said:
Aekeron, just hada thought, it might be an idea to set aside 1 ocuk server for survival games and the others for versus, using different search keys?
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There's not much point really because whatever people choose in the lobby overrides what I set on the server. I could set them all to coop mode and it wouldn't make the slightest difference to you lot - your vs and survival lobbies would connect to the server and change the settings on the fly :)
 
Aekeron said:
There's not much point really because whatever people choose in the lobby overrides what I set on the server. I could set them all to coop mode and it wouldn't make the slightest difference to you lot - your vs and survival lobbies would connect to the server and change the settings on the fly :)
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Also, tbh, I'd rather use the OCUK servers for VS games and let people doing survival find a public place. Often OcUK becomes a good place for leeroy games which require admin really to enable all talk. Also more people get to utilse the service. Public 4 slots for Survival mode won't be hard to find! It's better than:

3 Servers = 24 people playing on VS mode - OCUK players win

3 Servers = 12 people all playing survival over and over again - OCUK lose


Just an idea and I don't know if there is a way to enforce it other than to have a gentlemans agreement or just let people do what they want.

I can assure you this though, when putting together a lobby for VS and see 3 groups of 4 punks whoring servers on survival mode...I won't be happy :D

Having said all that, I don't know if it would affect performance having 3 full 8 man servers, I'm guessing not. I just think as they are community servers nicely hosted by Dave and UV, that they are taken advantage of by as many people as possible.
 
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Aekeron said:
There's not much point really because whatever people choose in the lobby overrides what I set on the server. I could set them all to coop mode and it wouldn't make the slightest difference to you lot - your vs and survival lobbies would connect to the server and change the settings on the fly :)
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Yeh I know it's set via the lobby. I mean so that if you are playing survival mode then you can use a specific search key. It'll have to be a gentlemen's agreement to not use that search key for versus games in lobby and not use the other search key unless you are on survival.

I agree that having 3 sets of 4 on survival using all three servers would be a bit selfish, but one server only with 4 players would be fine by me.
 
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