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In case anyone is curious on the machine on which I run the servers. First of all its very old crappy hardware. But Descent3 servers do not need much hardware horse power at all to run so its fine. I run 4 servers on this machine and it barely pushes a third of the processor. I could not care less a...

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They seem to be down again.

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I am going to bring my servers down for a few hours today to do some minor hardware work.
(The SSD sometimes take longer than it should to do things and I really think its because of an old POS SATA cable that is in there. So I am going to replace it)

EDIT: Work completed.

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For some reason, vortex is just not showing servers on my machine out of the clear blue sky. Tsetsefly is still running just fine and I do have the patched version of vortex. Is there any thing I can look at on my WIN10 machine like some firewall setting that might have been tweaked? Please let me k...

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Forgive me. I do forget sometimes that not everyone is comfortable tinkering around inside computer hardware.

Its kind of my hobby to see if I can referb older hardware to useful.

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Another easy thing to try is reseating power cables, especially the GPU PCEi connector and if you have a modular power supply check both ends.

Go to 28 minutes in the following to see why that can be important.

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The more I think about this, the more I think you might have had a CMOS corruption issue, which could indeed have been caused by a small surge getting through your protectors from a lightning storm. Fortunately if that is the case, its an easy fix. You would just need to clear the CMOS. Of course un...

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Just wondering,

They don't seem to be listed at the moment.

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I had not been logged in, in quite a few years. A few months ago I decided to dust off my old account. <MyBadRedNeck> Yaknow Yall </MyBadRedNeck> There are still 2 trackers hanging out, out there. (d3.descent.cx) and (tsetsefly.de) If you feel like it, dust off and fire up the old vortex and jump on...

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None of the items in the hot fix effect me so I am good.

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I use nglide to run D3 in glide mode. I don't know what nvidia did to the latest driver but for some reason the above combination looks, a difference of night and day, better. (the realist in me says they probably just did some sort of playing around with gamma correction :roll: ) Also, there were a...

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Please use...

http://www.tsetsefly.de/

To use this tracker in vortex get a patched version from here http://www.slyclan.de/vortex/Vortex.exe

The patched version can also be gotten from http://www.dateiliste.com/

BTW, glad to see your still hanging around Behemoth.

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I was wondering if you have checked to see if there is a bios upgrade for you MOBO. I actually have seen things like that caused by a bug in the bios that was fixed in later releases. (I fixed memory issues on an old Dell Precision T5500 with just a bios upgrade) Short of that, it kind of sounds lik...

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The same storm is about to hit me here in upstate NY.
They are predicting 8 to 16 inches.
Fortunately with COVID I have been working from home.
And I have a fairly well stocked pantry so I don't have to go out.

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There is this one guy who goes by Overwerk for his music, and I especially like the tune "Need" and I get that tune going while playing games.

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The update is complete.

The last time I tried d3Server3 was years ago and the wine compatibility layer was at early version 2.
I might give it a try again now that wine is firmly in to the 3 verisons.
Who knows, it might work.

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Do_Checkor wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:13 pm [About Aquarius2: Extract this into your D3 main dir and restart the server so you will have working links (for Vortex etc.) again

I honestly did not know you could do that.
I thought that you had to rebuild the mn3 with the development tools.
Thanks.

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I have never been a big forums lurker so I never know whats allowed or not. Is it OK to post here updates/outages/other-info that I plan on doing? :arrow: First item: From way back, those who have been around, know that I like missions that are underused but moderately well thought out and made. (ba...

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I just thought of something to add. I know for a fact that even today there might be 1 or 2 new to the game. (yes I saw one in the Ascent BOZ server about 2 weeks back. Helped him out a little) If someone wants Vortex to access the tracker tsetsefly.de, they need a patched version of Vortex that can...

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I am going to say I am just glad your around to help keep D3 going, 20 years after it debuted.

I keep looking at those 2 other 6DOF games out there and I am not sure I am interested in either one.

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Sorry about that. There are still residual power outages occurring from the 100MPH derecho this area was hit with on Wednesday.

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I noticed that some were asking who runs Ari's servers. That would be me. I have not used this account in a very long time and I really don't go by Nosferatu any more. (Not so interested in vampires any more :) ) I just updated my gamespy tracker list as suggested and restarted all 4 servers. A real...

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Is there any way to add a sound to a level that only plays once upon joining? Maybe in a briefing? Maybe in the level itself?

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Thats the reason I was thinking of upping my memory, especially since my mobo can handle higher memory speeds.

I'm not sure how PCI-E does it but I'm sure that it does go to system memory when it needs it, in some way, like AGP aperture.

But I'll also try notching down the texture complexity.

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Hmmm. I think turning off procedural textures might have done it. I still get a single \"jump\" now and then but nothing even close to the slide show stile franeyness that I was getting.

Thanks Krom. Guess thats the only thing I didnt try.

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I noticed the \"use either OpenGL or DirectX\" comment. Maybe someone can help me with something I have always had trouble with. I currently play using OpenGL and put up with the \"white box\" every once in a while, because when I use DirectX, certain levels textures cause my CPU...

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COTFLGOHAHA

Crawling on the floor, laughing guts out, having a heart attack

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Figherstick hu? My fav. I have a map for it, which does the following, if you would like me to send you a copy. Side stick hat: Up = 1 Right = 2 Down = 3 Left = 4 (aka change lower primary weapons) Lower right hat: Up = 6 Right = 7 Down = 8 Left = 9 (aka change lower secondary weapons) Left hat: Up ...

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You forgot to put lynx in the list

Sorry sorry. JK.

I use FF for all the reasons already stated.

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Foil wrote:
Nosferatu wrote:Derelict Stadium
1 v 1
Anarchy
Ummm, you're already hosting that one, Nos.

Ya and I get accused of ping whoring.

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Derelict Stadium
1 v 1
Anarchy

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I think that second one was that Skybox EVO in which I came in late. Still that many players in Skybox EVO. That was fun has hell

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Planet Descent says this: 10.10.0.211:2092 I think it could also be this: 192.168.1.106:2092 I dont know what the "tracker port" is, unless its 27900 (as specified under advanced for the game trackers box. Anything that starts with "192.168." is defined to be a non-netwide addre...

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youtube browsing. Bet alot of the posts in there have outtakes.

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Jeff Dunham is the best. I have both his DVDs. Arguing with myself is better than Spark of Insanity, IMHO. Ya he is great and I agree that Arguing with Myself was better. Peanut had better lines in that one. "You should get drunk and go to a topless bar. You'ld be making your voice come from p...

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Gallagher once had this bit where he said, \"well why cant we use the other suits in a deck for these signs as well?\" then he proceeded to hold up signs that had:

I \"spade\" my dog.

I \"club\" my wife.

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Here in upstate NY we just got 6\" of snow to top off 8\" that we got on Thursday, and the locals are still all like \"SO?\".

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I disagree. Even if they are the most miserable whiner I have heard, I still let up on typers, in anarchy. And find anyone who deliberately gets type kills to be a complete and total coward, who needs to disparately inflate their own ego. Of course the same whiners usually complain about spawn kills...

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Pretty kick a$$ tune that the PS3 has been using in their commercials lately.

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Re: Ari's servers status thread.

Re: Do_Dheckor are your dedis off line at the moment?

Re: Ari's servers status thread.

Vortex just stopped showing servers

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Do_Checkor are your dedis off line at the moment?

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Geforce 461.40

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Ari's servers status thread.

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Ari's servers were down today

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Non repeated sounds?

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