Doom 3 - Dedicated Server

[[AK]Hylander]

Hey Guys,

Last night myself, Stitch, and Cruiser were playing a little D3 online and we started talking about the D3 Dedicated server option and the requirements.

I have a personal "FTP" server I have running here at home on my 1.5/384 DSL connection. Here are the specs for the box:

Windows XP Professional
Epox 8KHA+ motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
1024mb PC2100 DDR
MSI GeForce4 TI4600 VIVO 128mb
IBM Deskstar 45gig 7200RPM ATA-100 Hard Drive
Maxtor 80gig 7200RPM 8mb cache ATA-100 Hard Drive
Mitsumi CD-Rom (48X) Drive
Plextor PX-W1210A CD-R/RW 12X10X32
SoundBlaster LIVE! Value soundcard
Generic Floppy Drive
LG Electronics Studioworks 995E 19IN .26MM Monitor
Creative I-Trigue 3300 2.1 Speakers
Microsoft Natural Elite Keyboard
Logitech Optical PS/2 Wheel Mouse
Netgear FA310TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card

Anyways, I loaded D3 on it tonight after we got done playing and fired it up in dedicated server mode. I couldn't find it when I looked under "Internet" servers, but I could under "LAN" and connected by myself under the LAN server at everything seemed extremely solid. If any of you guys are available tomorrow night (Monday).. let me know so I can fire it up and see if I can iron out all the configurations, tune it, etc and see if my box and DSL connection has enough "oomph" to host 4 players. I was able to connect with no problem under the LAN, pw worked, all the game settings were correct, etc.. but I won't really know anything until we try a "live" test with a full 4 players and see how it holds up.

I'm reading some of the config setting suggestions given over at Planet Doom right now and I'll see how it goes.

Seems I have to start the server with the CD in the drive, then I can remove it so I can use it on my PC. Guess a need to create a copy with Alcohol 120% might be in order.

UPDATE:

LOL! OK.. I know it's working! I was justing watching the console and 3 people were kicked off for incorrect password!! So it must be visible to others. I've had this problem before.. where I can't see hosted games on my own IP from behind my router, etc. even though they are there.

[Slaughter]

Seems it shouldn't be a problem for you to connect to it through lan and everyone else through Internet.. or am I wrong in that?

[[AK]Hylander]

No, that wasn't what I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that when I selected "Internet" to find servers, I didn't see my dedicated server. But when I switched my search to "LAN", it did show up.

Should be no problem at all and hopefully someone will be around tonight around 8:00 - 9:00PM to help me test it out.

I created a batch file to launch the dedicated server. The only thing I need to do now is to get it to start without the CD.

[Cruiser]

i dropped my card to 450/950 and multiplayer is fine now! they were right what clocks work for other games may not for doom! only lost 15mhz core so no biggie!

Test server tonight?

[[AK]Hylander]

Just a follow-up.

Myself and Cruiser tested out the Dedicated Server I set up last night and it worked pretty decent. I actually had it set up for a maximum of 6 players.. but Cruiser said he noticed a significant increase in hesitations/freezes/lag, etc whenever we went above 4 players. So I reset the configuration to allow a maximum of 4 players. With 4 players or below, the server seemed to work pretty well with minimal lag or hesitations. The only time we noticed a problem is when someone joined with a 400 - 600 ping. Cruiser was sitting around 65 - 80 pings, as were most of the other players that joined us last night.

This server will not be up all the time, as it is loaded on my personal FTP server so will be available on a as needed basis. The Doom 3 dedicated server has a "glitch" where it automatically utilizes all available CPU resources and maxes it out to 100% at all times. This is an "issue" that has been discussed quite a bit over at Planet Doom.

The server name is [AK]Hylander's Server.