Digital Anvil needs your help!

Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:54 pm by Mr_nStuff

There's a new message on the DA Patch server that says the following.

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We're still tracking two server crashes. We've enabled some detailed logging measures to help isolate the problems when they occur again. If you have any information about what's causing these crashes, send mail to [email protected]
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So there you have it.. If anyone knows what may be causing server crashes, e-mail that guy.

I remember hearing some lamer here say he could still crash that server with a speed cheat. Anyone with info on this cheat should e-mail [email protected] and let him know about it.

Thu Apr 24, 2003 12:31 am by Pinger

Did a bit more for my character on there tonight and found a lot less lag than there should, considering in from UK. Ok granted I did rarely see the yellow warning, maybe once every hour. But never the red. So what ever they are doing is helping.

Edited by - Pinger on 24-04-2003 01:48:15

Thu Apr 24, 2003 1:57 am by Cr0no

nice NEGATIVE 13 posts stuff? ?? ...where can we c what you r refferring to us?

Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:46 am by Mr_nStuff

That message is in the server info when you create a new charactor on the " DA Patch" server.. Which just went red-lagged and crashed a few minutes ago. RIP DA Server.

NOTE: DA is also aware of the speed cheat thing still working. And they think it might be one source of server crashing. They are working on it nStuff.

Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:47 am by Pinger

Crono add this as a custom startup for FL and go look your self

C:\GAMES\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe -s208.34.203.75:2302

Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:00 am by Avernus

Speedcheat as its refered to is a cheat that works at the operating system level and can be found simply by doing a google search Im sure. It's been around for years and all it does is speed up your system time clock. Most developers have been aware of this cheat for a long time and plan accordingly.

Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:28 pm by Frardog

the speed cheat in the game is turn your cruise speed up above 2 mill then launcing and going into cruise. Here is what I received yesterday.

this was from [email protected]

"Thanks... we did duplicate the problem with a cruise setting of 2
billion. Our physics engine dies a horrible death under those
circumstances. I'm implementing a fix for the speed hack that will
cause the offending ship to explode if it exceeds safe speeds.
Hopefully that'll put a stop to it."

they're getting closer

Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:45 pm by Hellif

This may just be a retarded addition, but....

Tonight, shortly after starting FL and logging into a server, I got a "DApatch.exe failed to initialize" error that kicked me back to windows (though FL was still active and playable, just had to alt-tab back). It struck me as odd, so I did a search for the .exe. And it didn't exist on my system (small wonder it didn't init). But what the heck tried to call it?

*rambles about nothing, heads to the horizontal non-video recuperative area*

Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:17 pm by Pinger

It's been down for a day or so, so probally an addition. But sounds like a in game download. I've not been on it today but will see if it happens as well.

ed: worked here if buggy, got killed when exititing a Gate with the Speed kill. Mailing them now

Edited by - Pinger on 25-04-2003 23:55:44

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