Hello again.

After adding APP_ALLOW_NO_GPU to my server software, I'm no longer getting the shader error. But now the program halts on:

can't create 3D device.

I guess it's not that strange. I have this hosted on a win2003 server, datacenter edition in a virtuozzo container. So yes, it's a vps. Is there a way around this?

I see two options myself:

1. use swiftshader to emulate the 3d device by software on the server. This can only be a temporary solution in my opinion.

2. See if it's possible to create a windows form application and have access to the esenthel structs i need, like the socket, memory containers etc. Has anyone tried this yet? If it's just impossible, I might just as well now that before i start trying :-) I suppose there's a main function in the lib somewhere, so would have to get that one ignored and use my own.

did you install directx runtime?

Yes, i did. I just tried to reinstall it, to be sure. And got a message that the newest version is already installed.

Using swiftshader to fake directX works, but it's probably not a good idea to run my server like this.

probably it's because it's a vps.

you can use 1)
or
3) do some server code in InitPre, it still should get executed (however making server in InitPre is experimental)

Just to be sure, but I guess the startup code below is all ok for a server?

void InitPre() {
App.name("Attr-x Server");
App.flag=APP_WORK_IN_BACKGROUND|APP_NO_FX|APP_MINIMIZABLE|APP_ALLOW_NO_GPU|APP_R​ESIZABLE;
D.sync(true);
D.mode(320, 240);
Renderer.type(RT_SIMPLE);
D.shdMode(SHADOW_NONE);
DataPath("Data");
Paks.add("engine.pak");
}

yes

well, it does run now. A screenshot can be found below. Server takes about 30-40 % of processing power while running. But I wonder why this goes up to 50-60% when I minimize the program?

I think I read something like this a while ago on the forum, but i thought it was fixed long since?

   

it means it goes at max speed = normal
you can do Time.wait if you want to use less cpu

Ok, thanks. Got the game server up and running now. Stats are pretty good. With windows server 2003, MsSQL server 2005 on a vps with a xeon 2.26GHz cpu (i get 2 cores): cpu usage between 4 and 10% (Some spikes up to 60% but not related to the game server. I'm using 228Mb of ram.

Seems using swiftshader is not that bad at all. I've added a Time.wait(100) to my update function.

Now I'll have to find some more users to test how it will perform with a lot of players. :-)

remember Time.wait(100) will limit server to 10 Updates per second
Time.wait(1) should be enough

I would reduce your server window size ( less pixels for software drawing), or minimize the app window

I knew that, but I thought update and draw were called after each other? Because I never get more than 10 fps on this vps, I figured that more updates wouldn't make sense. Or are they in separate threads?

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