Gaming: BF2 AND Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
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REDHILL BF2 Game demo's: [Yours, if you.ve been playing on the server] are AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD from your "community" folder in your bf2 game client

Quick and Dirty notes on Both games, what Ive found myself and maybe a fix or 2 ..
Being a tight bastard I dont like to spend any-more money than I have to on games,  and I still like playing BF2 and Wet, also playing with the dedicated server versions of both, which Involves tweaking and tuning ...helps keep me amused.

• BF2 and wolf:et are sharing the same machine - a small dell workstation 3.2gb cpu 1g ram
• BF2 Especially loves ram - 2 or more g's of ram would be better for the ded' server
• Both Ded' servers are straight setup on linux which I run in a home directory in screen
• both games running on the same machine is never ideal inless say your running vmware with a lan output for each maybe [my opinion anyway], depends how many players you have on a day to day basis, in my case its all experimental.
• mod's to bf2: modmanager scripts, bf2statistics.com scripts for stats and "naw5" mod, all are drop in and configure, so theres not a big deal there really, all is needed extra is a web server with php, but with either linux or windows thats not an issue normally.
  
• WOLF:ET standard install patched to 2.60b, I did notice that a lot of hosting providers still use the 2.55 version why I dont know yet, one day ill bother to find out the reason
• MODS: for wolf:et are "nitmod 2.0b7" and "omnibot 0.8", and I work on the American ideal in this case with updates; "if it aint broke dont fix it" so since the nitmod version and omnibot work ok, I wont bother to update.
• all I'm doing now is tweaking the server.cfg file which has a lot of cvars [or settings] some of which are explained and some are not.

FIX'S AND FILES

• If you play Wolfenstein ET and have a server going, and wonder why the server uses a crap load of bandwidth even though there are no players on the server; this is an inherent fault in the server prog itself. Now there is a fix from a czech guy, [quick and dirty as he sayes], on splash damages forum [its in the form of another patch, small and easy to load], it does work, cause I used it. Go HERE for answers and a fix. For any reason if the link for that file is down or gone, the fix file is archived on my own setup HERE.
• Also if your into PHP and web servers and want a status / player script for your bling ... bling wolf:et server , I found this script while trawling the internet HERE.
• Both scripts are complete and untouched, as written by their owners. ***NOTE: BANDWIDTH FIX is for linux server patched to 2.60b ONLY, no fix for windows [as far as I know]