Deprecated Darkstar fourms

Hey Guys. Just Finished building my DSP FFXI Dedicated Server Boxes. I decided to build them during my spare time after work. Their temporarily mounted in my 12U Network Test Rack till I finish running final tests on them. Afterwards ill mount them in my Dell 42U Rack.

I have the DSP FFXI Server Installed and running beautifully!. I wont go into great detail but

{1U Chassis}(A) SQL Database
Windows OS 64Bit
Intel Processor 2.4Ghz
16GB RAM
100GB SSD SATA II
Network Card 1Gps
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{1U Chassis}(B) Connect-Server / SQL DB Backup
Windows OS 64Bit
Intel Processor 2.4Ghz
16GB RAM
100GB SSD SATA II
Network Card 1Gps
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{4U Chassis}(C) Game-Server / Search-Server / [Eventually Desert World Client ]
Windows OS 64Bit
Intel Processor 3.2Ghz
32GB RAM
600GB SSD SATA II
Network Card 1Gps
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fantastic!

Neat, server porn.

Nice, but the search server has to be running on the same system as the game/world server (afaik), it just uses a different port...

So you have rack mount servers but a cheap 4 port netgear switch?? Where's the Cisco 7500??

project2501 wrote:{4U Chassis}(C) Game-Server / [Eventually Desert World Client ]

Very nice stuff. I handn't updated for a long time and finally saw the desert world client in the src folders. What is it?

It's for extracting the 3D terrain data from the .dat files. Eventually someone will have to do that so we can have proper monster movement

whasf wrote:Nice, but the search server has to be running on the same system as the game/world server (afaik), it just uses a different port..

Thanks Whasf! That would explain some problems.. Ill Fix it right away.

whasf wrote: So you have rack mount servers but a cheap 4 port netgear switch?? Where's the Cisco 7500??

Yeah the Netgear switch is just for my Small Network Test Rack. Most builds I do get tested there before I feel confident enough for them to be committed to the bigger 42U Dell Rack Enclosure. No Cisco 7500 . The Best I got at the moment is a Cisco 1921. Its Located in the bigger Rack Enclosure along with some other Rack Mount Servers for various things.

Do you think with this Setup ill be able to support at-least 6 Clients over a LAN? .

That could host a few hundred clients at least

whasf wrote:It's for extracting the 3D terrain data from the .dat files. Eventually someone will have to do that so we can have proper monster movement

I wanted to check out the desert world client, but I'm getting errors when running it. I can see the first item fine but when I hit enter and it starts zipping through all of the files, it says:

Debug error!
File: c:\dsp\win32\thedesertworld_client\tdwmap.cpp
Line: 630

Run-Time Check Failure #2 - Stack around the variable 'opname' was corrupted

Not that I know what I'm doing with the tool anyway.

yeah it needs some love, feel free to fix it