Wow Eno, your server rocks so far! I just joined a Road Kill mission that had been running so long it was 2300 local. It's the first time I've flown A-10 in the dark, the NVGs were a blast! I lost two Hogs (one was a CFIT from watching the wrong things in the cockpit and not flying the airplane...) but went on a SEAD rampage. Other than the SAM sites to the south (has anyone ever killed those?) lobbing constant misses at me, the RWR was verrrry quiet, it was nice. I saw both the normal message we see when we're doing well and a Blue Victory message followed by a server reset. Great times, too bad I was alone. It was also neat to see that the ZU-23s would more or less fire blindly when I was in their area. They too were easy picking with the gun and googles. I'm starting to enjoy that mission, after initial frustration with all the anti air. I think at least one other person had taken a crack at things judging by the wrecks around the airfield but there was enough left to make it fun and a challenge mopping up.

Once again, great job Eno and thanks. The mystery issue I have connecting to WCs isn't present here for whatever reason. Almost instant connection too.

Also, I noticed some missing buildings too, in fact other than bridges the landscape was pretty barren.

Ahhh, maybe it is the terrain settings, set to low.

My recommendation for the server is to set everything on High, Blur On, Civ Traffic to Medium, etc. Maybe run it in Windowed mode. If you are not going to be watching the sim, hit the F10 View and leave it in the low-detailed Map View.

As fast as ENO's connection was to me, I think High settings will be fine.


Glad you enjoyed it tomcat! I'd stay away from that AD down south. There's a KUB site on a mountain and a SA-10 further out.

WC

Ahh, I'm watching NASCAR but was half thinking about joining the recently refreshed mission on Eno's server to try and take em out, better to learn the hard way without an audience ;D, but maybe I'll keep watching the race, sounds safer.. I might be on in a couple hours if you're around.

I thought keeping everything on low just affected my machine? I guess not? I'll bump things up but that's a bit silly to have everyone's details set to the servers- the individual models are the same- we downloaded the same game, right? so whether I have it on a low render of the model and someone else has it on exquisite it shouldn't matter. But, apparently it does?

I'll look more into that before I change it but if that's the way it is I'll get it bumped up.

This is completely counter to established practice for a dedicated server, and almost plain wrong.

Set everything to low, allow the terrain settings etc. to be overriden by client, and turn 3d rendering off. The server has other things to do, graphics aren't needed at all.

Okay! Found a solution!!

\Eagle Dynamics\DCS A-10C\Config\graphics.cfg

I'll change "render 3D = true" to "render 3D = False. This will prevent my side from having to render everything in the background and- assuming what I'm being told about the level of detail is correct I should be able to leave everything on the server machine maxed out without slowing it down.

I won't do that this time around- I'd like to see how it plays with max settings. I'll need a couple hours to do the switch.

This actually resolves a whole separate issue as well without the 3D rendering- because that's what's holding up the logmein as well-

If that doesn't work we can try that other remote software discussed earlier- or I can just go pro with logmein... sounds like that overcomes it as well. But FREE > PRO if FREE = PRO in the performance side of things. I really do like the simplicity of logmein so it'll be interesting to test out.

Whoops- well there it is... how does one do such a thing?

Since you turned off rendering, it should be ok.

There are two things to do to achieve what you are asking however, and you may want to be aware:

First, turn off 'use these settings in all missions' in your game options.

Second, in the MISSION options (ie. open the mission in the editor) make sure that the terrain option (and whatever other options you choose) is not locked down (ie. it can be overriden by the client).

Try teamviewer. You may have to change the pause button assignment though, because TV doesn't like sending the Pause key through.

Crew- can you verify the above settings are not locked down in your missions? I'm not sure I could do that over the phone with the gf. I can get her to turn off the all missions setting and may even be able to get the rendering turned off.

Thanks ghost that was a big help in getting this rolling. I'll take a look at team viewer when I get home which, now, won't be until Wednesday.