Recently I read someone's post while looking for an answer to a similar question. He wanted to know how to get a dedicated server going, to which someone's reply was simply "click on the ded server button".
That is not the answer I want. I run th REAL dedicated server to host REAL Unreal Tournament Servers. The REAL UT DEDICATED SERVER has NO GUI, and thus INF will not load, making us dedicated server operators unable to "click the launch ded. server" button. Maybe in this other guys case, he doesn't run the ded. ut server version, and that will work fine for him. I'm not trying to start anything (if what I wrote seems "snippy" I appologize!). I don't run the "retail" and click dedicated for normal UT, either - When you run a server of gameservers, be it multiple versions of UT, or other games, you quickly try to save as much CPU time as you can. Since the gamserver is not PLAYED on (it simply hosts games) there is no point in installing the "retail UT" on it, as the retail sucks CPU and RAM, even in dedicated mode for graphics and.. ..well, whatever else. For those who don't know this, there is a HUGE difference (in regular UT without mods like INF) between the server-only version and the retail package.
Back to the point, however
Is there a way to get INF to run on a dedicated server as described above, WITHOUT clicking on the gui buttons.. Something in command-line, for instance? I looked through the manual (briefly skimming) and didn't notice anything about it in there..
TIA for your time and to all who play INF - I'm fairly new to INF (recently "converted" from a life of Tac-Ops, which I will never play again!!!) and hoping to share the INF "love" at our next LANFest. Take care and frag on!!
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That is not the answer I want. I run th REAL dedicated server to host REAL Unreal Tournament Servers. The REAL UT DEDICATED SERVER has NO GUI, and thus INF will not load, making us dedicated server operators unable to "click the launch ded. server" button. Maybe in this other guys case, he doesn't run the ded. ut server version, and that will work fine for him. I'm not trying to start anything (if what I wrote seems "snippy" I appologize!). I don't run the "retail" and click dedicated for normal UT, either - When you run a server of gameservers, be it multiple versions of UT, or other games, you quickly try to save as much CPU time as you can. Since the gamserver is not PLAYED on (it simply hosts games) there is no point in installing the "retail UT" on it, as the retail sucks CPU and RAM, even in dedicated mode for graphics and.. ..well, whatever else. For those who don't know this, there is a HUGE difference (in regular UT without mods like INF) between the server-only version and the retail package.
Back to the point, however
Is there a way to get INF to run on a dedicated server as described above, WITHOUT clicking on the gui buttons.. Something in command-line, for instance? I looked through the manual (briefly skimming) and didn't notice anything about it in there.. TIA for your time and to all who play INF - I'm fairly new to INF (recently "converted" from a life of Tac-Ops, which I will never play again!!!) and hoping to share the INF "love" at our next LANFest. Take care and frag on!!
Rooster