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Yo,

First of all, Hello again Its been a while with this gameseries and lots of things have happened from the years i stopped playing actively myself, but seems like things are okay once again

But the original stuff, didnt find fast reply how server side is working (ini structure overall), like everyone who remembers me knows im keen fine tuner of servers and thus id like to fix some setup flaws what are inside ini files, like server tickrate and netspeeds But seems like aa25serv.ini gets overwritten at every restart, so can those values from serv.ini moved to aa25.ini ?

Like if i want fixed bigger cache for server, can i put CacheSizeMegs=xx to my aa25.ini and it replaces the faulty value of CacheSizeMegs=64 in aa25srv.ini? Or if not, where can those values be fixed?

Well lots of questions for starters, but would really appretiate some tutoring here   

-punisher

well youre talking to mr unreal tweak now

Honestly to say, every hardware and network connection is almost individual, some certain tweaks do help on server side and clientside, but then again, if someone has high end server hardware and network, and some another tries that setup, it can end up to disaster. Thus id like to do some testing based on old memory images and that is what i need to have some config which is not overwritten on restart and it applies when server is fired up.

But something i spotted from configs atmo are network speed is as low as 8k and then again clientrate is set to 10k, which is mismatching to eachother, as far as i remember UE2 it could be easily calculated how much bandwidth server needs for certain amount of players and tickrate. if im right tick was 25, which is also way too low for decent (fast connection and hw), would pump it upto 35, maybe 40. but stay there at tops cause after 45-50 if i remember right, AR started to shoot too fast and gave AR users unfair upperhand, over regular infantry.
Could do some digging from old files and setups, got few basic good ones and those will run any UE2 based game better than average almost on every platform, as long as networking is something more than dsl or dialup Cause both, UE2 and UE3 every dev lies on basic engine configs and there has been same errors from the very beginning of EVERY game

heh been around from 2004, but been also missing for last umm, lets say two or three years when quit americas army mentor project and turned to part time GSP.  thats also the reason why im interested in fine tuning systems, cause like said, in 2002 some things werent there

Also it would be nice to add roe, autobalancing etc to configs, and those too need to be set that theyre not always overwritten by restart. Just realised this, been tinkering AA2.5 config to TCAdmin2 last couple of hours

So are all those nowadays hardcoded or does Assist read them from some config?

heh been around from 2004, but been also missing for last umm, lets say two or three years when quit americas army mentor project and turned to part time GSP.  thats also the reason why im interested in fine tuning systems, cause like said, in 2002 some things werent there

Welcome back then Your name somewhat rings a bell, now that you've changed your avatar.

I think Assist creates some ini files but there's got to be a way for you to alter them. Or, ELiZ can create a custom server build for you to play around with I'm sure.

Like if i want fixed bigger cache for server, can i put CacheSizeMegs=xx to my aa25.ini and it replaces the faulty value of CacheSizeMegs=64 in aa25srv.ini? Or if not, where can those values be fixed?

this size you can Change. do it, maybe twice, then it will be settled like. it worked at my servers.

okay got some of the values working from /server/aa25srv.ini but seems like code reads those two ini files both and cannot all figure out which is read from where someone who has done that launcher, should really step out now and hand over some documentation WHAT is altered from original, or otherwise this will go like old days by trial and error, which is not helping out community at all. ive got really kewl setup for tcadmin2 and will hand it over to everyone willing to use it for their servers, but first i need to make it 100% working and its only 98% now also as gift for community can create small tut what happens inside the ini structure when i get things tested out but cannot do this all alone atm

and we really need to advert this marvelous project to get as many as possible back to play, ive been harrassing my old clan m8s and suggest everyone of you do the same

yeah i understand that, but if aa25.ini is empty on the base folder, does server then read all the information it needs to launch from /server/aa25srv.ini ? vause what i see this far /server/aa25srv.ini is original server.ini what WAS located in /System folder for both windows and linux versions in all AA2.X servers. And based on that structure, id presume that /server/aa25srv.ini is reflection of old /System/Config/basegame.ini which was read and rewritten encase there was no /System/server.ini at all. Correct if im wrong?
Dont want to be whiner but this is one thing that needs clarification, cause otherwise server admins cannot take the most out of their server, now for example hud is on basic setup, and some people might want to run their super realistic and without hud, also competition setup is somewhat undoable, if full system ini set is not used. aa25.ini is having only "some" of the variabled what server instance actually needs to have to run properly. Need to do some testing tomorrow, but trial&error is not the best way of doing search, i bet someone knows how software is designed, cause there is launcher afterall and someone has designed that launcher

okay, based on todays tinkering, whole ini structure is fucked from original.

certain things from /System/aa25.ini are still overwritten to /System/server/aa25srv.ini , which seems to be the "running" server ini, like copycat of server.ini in original. Either it PRETENDS to be default.ini. A bit confusing? Dunno, but for some reason idea that aa25.ini is some sort of copycat of default inis what were supposed to be in /Config folder, but have removed for some reason, from the original location. It would be good that the one who re-coded this pile, would step out and explain what is what, for example:

old plaaplaa = newplaa

etc to get some sense to this one. like stated few days ago, seems like system is even more messed up than it was when army devs were in responsible of maintaining code so kinda cannot get into goal alone, which is to offer AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE server setup for community use.

time is limited, so is money and worst of all, nerves