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Some of you've received your F.E.A.R. DVDs by now. I know Mufasa was having some problems get'n the game to run. I put some tech tip info in the Gamefiles folder here, in the FEAR subfolder. Hopefully that'll help out if any of you run into issues.
Performance-wise, there are a LOT of settings to play with if the game runs but is too choppy. It's a good idea to take things down to the minimum and run the test sequence included in the options, then note the final FPS info at the end. You should shoot for average figures of 30FPS or better, so may need to tweak here and there and run the test a few times. Personally I can't stand having the anti-alias turned off so have my FSAA set at 2X and sacrifice a few other perfomance settings.
And note that the usual recommendations (turning off your AV, kill'n other background processes and so forth) may help out too.
I'm also still tweak'n the map line-up on the server, as some of the maps are too large or complex. More on that once we've got some players in there to test the playability.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
CoD:UO Marathon!
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Don't forget, this Sunday (tomorrow as of this writing!) is the big ol' CoD:UO Marathon! We'll start around 10am and go until 6pm MDT or whenever we get too tired to frag anymore. So run out today and stockup on your favorite treats and libations to keep up your stamina tomorrow!
On a private note, looks like a good weekend for it here locally....rainy rainy weather.
Don't forget, this Sunday (tomorrow as of this writing!) is the big ol' CoD:UO Marathon! We'll start around 10am and go until 6pm MDT or whenever we get too tired to frag anymore. So run out today and stockup on your favorite treats and libations to keep up your stamina tomorrow!
On a private note, looks like a good weekend for it here locally....rainy rainy weather.
FC Server Is Up!
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w00t! w00t! I've figured out the basics of get'n a F.E.A.R. Combat (FC) dedicated server going, using a spare PC here at home (dual 833Mhz P3's, 1GB DDR333). I also found 3 smallish maps that, combined with a few of the smaller stock ones, should make for decent play even with 4 or less players. I have those custom maps served out from my usual redirect server so they download in a flash. I also have the FC server set "private" with our usual server password to connect.
Caveats:
Max players is set to 4 as this is on my home network. Might get by with 6 but will have to try that out if/when. Seemed to be doing okay with just me & Hock on there in testing but no idea yet how the lag is with more.
You'll need to either find the server (FFC_FEAR) in the in-game Internet list, OR create a "quick connect" (QC) shortcut. This is done in similar manner to what we did for the CoD games. Just make a copy of your FEARCombat shortcut, then add the following (minus the quotes, and substitute'n the real password for OurServerPassword) to the Target field like so, "+join mambaweb.homedns.org:27888 +password OurServerPassword". Just FYI, since my home network IP is dynamic it's best to use the DNS name as that should always have the current IP.
Unfortunately, creating a Favorite and using that DOES NOT WORK. You'll get a "wrong version" type message. No one seems to know why that is yet...hopefully there will be more info about that problem later on.
So for now, using the QC method is best. Do note that it is SLOW to connect this way for some reason...be patient...it can take a couple minutes before it even tries to connect.
Got Game?
So far I think Hock is the only one with F.E.A.R. Combat installed. As it's a HUGE download, I'll be mailing out copies to Mufasa, Crow and Floppo. The rest of you can go fish. hahahaha Or let me know if you need that kinda help. If we all like the FC experience we can then discuss the merits of adding it to our commercial host for an alternative to CoD:UO (I don't think anyone was too impressed with CoD2, and this one is free client-wise).
Here are some related F.E.A.R. links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0J4T1RC2Q&mode=related&search=
http://forums.vugames.com/category.jspa?categoryID=2
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/fear/
http://www.feargame.net/wiki/
http://www.fearfusion.com/
http://feargame.net
w00t! w00t! I've figured out the basics of get'n a F.E.A.R. Combat (FC) dedicated server going, using a spare PC here at home (dual 833Mhz P3's, 1GB DDR333). I also found 3 smallish maps that, combined with a few of the smaller stock ones, should make for decent play even with 4 or less players. I have those custom maps served out from my usual redirect server so they download in a flash. I also have the FC server set "private" with our usual server password to connect.
Caveats:
Max players is set to 4 as this is on my home network. Might get by with 6 but will have to try that out if/when. Seemed to be doing okay with just me & Hock on there in testing but no idea yet how the lag is with more.
You'll need to either find the server (FFC_FEAR) in the in-game Internet list, OR create a "quick connect" (QC) shortcut. This is done in similar manner to what we did for the CoD games. Just make a copy of your FEARCombat shortcut, then add the following (minus the quotes, and substitute'n the real password for OurServerPassword) to the Target field like so, "+join mambaweb.homedns.org:27888 +password OurServerPassword". Just FYI, since my home network IP is dynamic it's best to use the DNS name as that should always have the current IP.
Unfortunately, creating a Favorite and using that DOES NOT WORK. You'll get a "wrong version" type message. No one seems to know why that is yet...hopefully there will be more info about that problem later on.
So for now, using the QC method is best. Do note that it is SLOW to connect this way for some reason...be patient...it can take a couple minutes before it even tries to connect.
Got Game?
So far I think Hock is the only one with F.E.A.R. Combat installed. As it's a HUGE download, I'll be mailing out copies to Mufasa, Crow and Floppo. The rest of you can go fish. hahahaha Or let me know if you need that kinda help. If we all like the FC experience we can then discuss the merits of adding it to our commercial host for an alternative to CoD:UO (I don't think anyone was too impressed with CoD2, and this one is free client-wise).
Here are some related F.E.A.R. links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0J4T1RC2Q&mode=related&search=
http://forums.vugames.com/category.jspa?categoryID=2
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/fear/
http://www.feargame.net/wiki/
http://www.fearfusion.com/
http://feargame.net
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