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PSU's do lose capacity over time. With that said, a lot of people do underestimate low-wattage PSU's. They can be better than crappy higher wattage ones. Not to brag but that's why I got the Corsair AX850. 7 year warranty and more power than I'll need for a long time. It was a lot of money up front but it will mean that I shouldn't have to think about it for 7 years at least. That's quite a while in terms of computers.

Koden, it's totally not because you have an AMD CPU. They're just as capable as Intel Some Northbridge overclocking would help over-all system speed. I would bet it's your 9600GT though.

At startup? Hmm did they really learned something over the years...

I admit, it would be nice to have an advanced setup where you can select the things you use (thus enabling/disabling certain services and features). But yea, there's some kind of quick virus scanning thing. I guess it checks to see if you can boot Windows at all. Not sure how it works.

That's pretty cheap, certainly couldn't buy a equilivant desktop for that much. Servers do have differences but they all depend on usage. For AA servers, it doesn't really matter but for critical operations like website uptime or company databases, there are key differences that make real servers valuable like all hotswap parts (including PSU), error correcting memory and a few other things I'm probably not aware of. I would also venture to guess that 4 physical CPU's is better for high I/O's since the IMC is in the CPU itself and you probably have 4GB of memory per CPU.

If you were to get a 6-core AMD and overclock the northbridge a bit, it would probably give your server a run for performance, noise and power usage. But I don't think you could even buy a 6-core AMD for 80GBP, let alone the rest of a desktop system.

Awesome deal

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Looking online, that server had a MSRP of $20,995 when it came out 6 or so years ago.

As a serious question, is 2.5 really worth saving? The last few times I ever went on it was just one server populated and it was a stupid modded server every single time. Would there even be a large enough player base for it to be worth it?

Great question. Until the answer is yes, and until there is proof, I'm not doing anything other than talking.

You reminded me about aa-maps.net (the website doesn't exist no more but a little cache does http://web.archive.org/web/20080309115831/http://www.aa-maps.net/, back in maybe 4 or 5 years ago there was a community that used to make maps and some pretty cool thing like this (by vvaffenpazzer):



And maps like this one (by Spetsnaz, which is still active but on other games).



I've been lurking the thread a little yesterday ^^' i'm not a programmer, i just model some things, but i'd love to see AA2 back and operative aswell.

Yea, that's how mAAp started. Me and BlueBlaster used to frequent those forums in awe of what they did. Then as 2.7 and 2.8 came out, interest dropped and when 2.8's map editor came out the site pretty much died. BlueBlaster had the idea of finding all the maps those guys made at aa-maps.net and putting them into a pack. A few versions in, we got the Unreal Editor from iZi (the admin at aa-maps) and started fixing up the maps and making our own.

Most of the maps in the mAAp Pack are from the guys at aa-maps.net, just refinished, updated and a few bugs fixed:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/Screenshots.png

In regards to an SQL base that does hold some other security issues in itself.  I work alot with MSSQL on a daily basis and have to go to great lengths in both the software code and stored procs etc to ensure it's secure.

It's all I know and all I could contribute. I was just mentioning it as an idea because it's fairly easy to work with and scale to add features. I'm think it would be fairly easy to compile some uscript to make calls like jQuery's .get();

Ok, yea that makes sense. There should be a way to figure out how the auth system worked and just replicate it. That or build a new auth system with a MySQL database or something.

Why not port 2.5 over to your own game? Fix the security errors then start a small community on that?

I think that's the idea. Problem is though that while mods can be made for 2.5, the core files cannot be easily altered as far as I know. Everyone should bear in mind that the UnrealEd engine we have is AA v2.4.1. I was told there's individuals that have the engine between 2.7 and 2.8 but I never got ahold of that.