well it seems like something is constantly coming up, i know you have all noticed the unbearable lag the past week..


i have been working with tech support to try and get this shit resolved, but all i have managed to do thus far is get a general idea of why its happening...


the techies are saying that their network is showing no errors, and i believe them, the problem seems to be with the actual drive on my box.. since i dont have a full dedicated machine, the drives are shared. so someone else on the box is taking up the bandwidth... thats it in laymans terms.




right now, i dont know what im going to do. i am most likely going to have to upgrade to a dedicated machine.. which is at least twice as much as im paying now. honestly, i dont know if i can make the payments if i do that.. im having enough trouble as it is...

and you know i hate asking for money  so i dont know guys..

most of you might remember, we used to have a gungame/dm server before the big move...


well now we have one once again! over 70 maps;

aim_ag_texture_deluxe
aim_ak_colt
aim_headshot
cs_deagle5
dm_aztec_maso3
fy_adrenalin
fy_buzzkill2008_s
fy_buzzkill
fy_crazyjump3
fy_dustworld
fy_pool_day
fy_pool_suite
fy_repub
fy_simpsons
fy_snow
fy_snow3
gg_33_frisson
gg_33_mario
gg_33_outdoors
gg_33_shudder
gg_4one_dusty
gg_aim_ak-colt-2worlds
gg_aim_ak-colt_2k7_v2
gg_amelos
gg_amelos_2
gg_aztec_deluxe_cs16
gg_aztec_temple_ruins
gg_blive
gg_crazy
gg_deagle_fastkill
gg_death-arena_cs16
gg_dev_boxes
gg_dev_maze
gg_dev_platform
gg_dev_spikes
gg_dusty_fortress
gg_dusty_maze
gg_dragonball_Z
gg_fy_deagle_dustworld
gg_fy_deagle_dustworld2
gg_galaxy
gg_killfast
gg_lin_orange
gg_map_creative_cs16
gg_map_usp_tex
gg_mini_dust2_winter
gg_mixcolors
gg_night_storm
gg_pft
gg_pool_aztec
gg_pool_day_tex
gg_purpple2
gg_rasputin
gg_space_base
gg_star
gg_sunrise2
gg_toon_groove
gg_twin_bridges
gg_ut_facingworlds
gg_sys_mini_mario
gg_sys_temple_of_toon
gg_mini_dust2
scoutzknivez

right now its around 200-300 fps, depending on the popularity an upgrade might be in order.

it is running the new beta version of avalanches gungame mod, released on the 20th.

lets try to get it populated, enjoy!

As you can see, our servers are currently ALL offline. sometime last night (wed, november 11th 2009) the box that i host everything on [except for this website, for obvious reasons], "restarted" to install updates for windows.



Today, the box is offline. after a long conversation with tech support (that is still going...), i find out that the windows installation somehow became corrupted, and the server will not start...



At this point i am trying to get everything backed up, but tech support is working on the VPS as i am writing this.. i will update this thread as soon as i have more information.



So far the worst case scenario would be no servers until sunday morning... i already have plans for friday and i cant cancel them as much as i want to in order to resolve this.

the best case would be all servers online by tomorrow morning, maybe tonight depending where you live.



edit - tech support advised me to send a ticket in requesting a new VPS be built, attaching the old drive with my data on it. we'll see how it goes from here, i am waiting on an email reply so there is literally nothing i can do at this point

UPDATE

the MFT on the c drive of the box was corrupted, long story short i got the host to make a new VPS with the same IP's and hook up the old hard drive so i could grab the files off the old drive and put them onto the new ones...

everythings back to normal now

I know im a week or two late on this.. but i have not had internet or electricity for most of this month.


to make this simple, this thread is about the new modern warfare release... infinity ward (the developer) has majorly fucked over pc gamers. here is how:

-no dedicated servers, multiplayer runs solely through iw.net matchmaking system. like a console game...
-you HAVE to use steam. the game is 100% steam... you can buy a cdkey and preload disks, but you need steam to play it....


so basically, they took a steam-independent release and ruined it. not only did they do that, they took away dedicated servers.


no.. dedicated.. servers


if you are not a console gamer, you should know what that means...


so, even though the steam part is un fixable, there is a slight possibility activision will take action on the dedicated servers issue (i doubt it..)



http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw

that is the petition, over 15k signatures already. all you need to do is include an email address.

i dont know how many of you have ever played battlefield 2...i started playing when it very first came out, then stopped when the boosters were released


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OXcKFsKGo&feature=player_embedded


now, with the 1.5 update, all boosters are free... meaning you can play on every server, with only the bf2 key!

needless to say, i am upgrading from 1.0 to 1.5


technically this doesn't count as news, but following our theme of cheap/free gaming i thought it fit pretty well