OldUnreal (Engine)

Hiya!

I have searched for this but I must be searching for the wrong thing because I have not found any examples of batch files to launch an Unreal 1 server.

I have tested running one from in-game but it crashes sometimes and with no startup file does not of course restart.

Can someone give me an example of a batch file to be used to start a deathmatch server?

Cheers!

Hey and welcome to OldUnreal!
I'd recommend you to use smth like following batchfile: Try that...

Create a batch file, place it into Unreal's "System" folder and put this into it (for example if you want to run DmAriza):

Unreal DmAriza.unr?game=UnrealI.DeathmatchGame -server

You can customize it any way you like, for example:

Unreal DmAriza.unr?game=UnrealI.DeathmatchGame -server port=7778 log=server.log ini1=server1.ini

etc.

Cheers
ThexDarksider

EDIT: And, don't do that what Ikuto said.

Yeah sure do what ThexDarksider said and your server wont restart ^_____^

Waaait a minute, are you joking me?
Doesn't that kill your PC? :-?

Hmmm

Can you give an example of a completed batch file?

:-/

That's from an official Legend Dedicated Server package.

Just change the XMPDIR value to your Unreal folder, and add a map of your choice instead of XMP-Garden.

Hmm if that doesn't work, try this:
But replace DmElsinore with the map you want to run.

If in any case the above doesn't work, you could try this:
For coop:
or
Hope that helps.

Hi

Thanks for thre reply

I was looking at any example I could find - including the ones here - I came up with this:

@echo off
:10
c:\Unreal\system\Unreal.exe DmAcademy.unr PORT=7777 LOG=dm.log READINI=unreal.ini -server
copy onsserver.log onsservercrash.log
goto 10

Seems to be working. To kill it I have to kill the dos box running the batch file.

No errors in the startup file.

Any reason why this will not work?

8-)

Waaait a minute, are you joking me?
Doesn't that kill your PC? :-?

What? Why would it?!

Hmmm

Can you give an example of a completed batch file?

:-/

Ikuto more or less did. Replace c:\... with whever unreal is installed
with the map you want to start on (do not include the )
with the gametype you want to use
logfile.log with whatever file you want to put the log in. There should be a way to timestamp it so you don't keep overwriting the logfile every time you restart, but I don't know how (if there is a way, delete the 'move' line)
INI is whatever configuration you want to use. Some people have multiple config files for different servers, or one for playing and another for hosting.
Everything except the map and -server are optional. INI defaults to unreal.ini, log defaults to unreal.log
Any options (?blah=) that can be added to the 'open map' command will work in the command line, i.e. 'unreal.exe Dig?difficulty=4'

You might need to set up port= or multihome or something, but I don't know how to deal with that. Someone else explain it, please.

Waaait a minute, are you joking me?
Doesn't that kill your PC? :-?

What? Why would it?!

It kills the f*ck out of my PC.

...

[img]http://thedarkside.net63.net/lol1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://thedarkside.net63.net/lol2.jpg[/img]

Not funny...

Yup

This indeed crashed my server:

@echo off
:10
Start Unreal.exe DmAcademy.unr -server PORT=7777 LOG=dm.log READINI=unreal.ini
copy onsserver.log onsservercrash.log
goto 10

LOL It started a bazillion copies of Unreal. I did manage to get server 2003 to shut off before the ship went down.

This on the other hand seems to work fine:

@echo off
:10
Unreal.exe DmAcademy.unr PORT=7777 LOG=dm.log READINI=unreal.ini -server
copy onsserver.log onsservercrash.log
goto 10

I will test that for a bit

"Restart button always handy."

LOL

By the way if you ask me what's Old is New Again.

Looking forward to getting back to roots and get in the game on Unreal 1 again.

Love the new patch - makes Unreal1 run sweet on the new rig (That I of course wished I had back in the day)

I have absolutely no idea why it is doing that.

What is SUPPOSED to happen is that starting unreal causes the shell to wait for the process to finish. When it does finish (usually because it crashed), it goes back to the top and starts unreal again.

Hmm afaik if you type " ", cmd actually BECOMES that process, but if you type "Start ", it will RUN that process as a side-effect, not caring about it.

That's correct, if you type "Unreal DmRadikus?game=UnrealI.DeathmatchGame -server log=server.log" or something like that, it won't loop forever.

But you MUST omit the Start command!

Instead of copying log use -timestamplog option...

OK

So just replace:

copy onsserver.log onsservercrash.log

With:

-timestamplog

?

Yeah. And, again. To anybody that didn't head what I said before:

DO NOT FORGET TO OMIT THE START COMMAND

There is nothing wrong with the start command.

The start command must include the "/WAIT" switch for the goal here. These batch scripts here lack it. That's what pauses further execution until the process in the command terminates. Type "start /?" in the command prompt for more help information that could be useful.


-Zombie

Don't do copy. You need to do rather
Unreal ...*parameters*... -timestamplog

Cool

Thanks for the help everyone!

So It should be like this:

@echo off
:10
Unreal.exe DmAcademy.unr PORT=7777 LOG=dm.log -timestamplog READINI=unreal.ini -server
goto 10

what does timestamplog do? Create a new one each time the server is restarted?

There is nothing wrong with the start command.

The start command must include the "/WAIT" switch for the goal here. These batch scripts here lack it. That's what pauses further execution until the process in the command terminates. Type "start /?" in the command prompt for more help information that could be useful.


-Zombie

Lol...

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