They have been in constant contact. There's little "news" because we're all working out the bugs.

I totally agree with the complaint. Due to heavy memory leaks , i can reset my server every 4 hour !!! I use a P4 2.4 / 512MB RDRAM / 7200RPM HDD (8mb cache).

It starts fine with 10 players (5-10msec / 50% cpu usage) and EACH time after one or two hours i see msec and cpu usage increase. Even going to 23msec / 90% CPU. Now don't tell me the problem are the players BECAUSE:

When I reset my server and the SAME 10 people come back and shoot like hell, my server is again running at 5-10msec and 50%cpu usage.

WE NEED A PATCH (WAS PROMISED MORE THEN A MONTH AGO) than solves this kind of problems. Without these leaks i could host 10 people without problems. I am looking every day on the freelancer website , but the last update of their website was on 02-07-03 !!

I have tried WinXP, Win2000 adv. server, other memory, removing CdRom and nothing seems to work! The problem comes back again whatever I do.

I have a feeling if they updated their website on 02-07-03 they don't do anything anymore about freelancer and i cannot find any news about the patch either.

So, until now this is the most sh*tty piece of server software I have ever seen. I also hosted some other servers and this problem never occured to me.

So, I'm glad i could say what I think about it somewhere....

Greetings,
EagleMKIII

there wouldn't be any memory "leaks" if you stop using mods/trainers

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there wouldn't be any memory "leaks" if you stop using mods/trainers

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Understatement of the year!!

i running a good server and the only problem i have is chrashing and the coruption of saved games but othere than that i can run it "24/7"
funny it seams that my lower profile computer is running better
(p3 1.3gig, cable connection, matrox melluim g450 duel head, winxp, 10 gig hd with 3 gig left)
the only thing falling behind is my cpu it can't keep up with the server in result of creating lag it runs fast when there 0-10 players but when there are 11-32 boy it is slow i can play the game when it that high it takes a few seconds to update but every one else playing is that theres lag when i play and when i use the console they say it "there some lag less then before you were there"
it could be backround programs and other stuff
but for this slow computer it running pretty good even when on avrege theres 29 players on it and a total of 1940 accounts (check the number of folders in the accounts folder about 75% are players not some one that just look at the news and left ) try to ban some one in that list!

i don't know if there putting this in the patch but i would REALLY like if there was a chat command that would allow you to kick and ban people after entring a password
like "remote password" then "remote ban the_shopee" that would be so much help insted of going through that list (did they ever think of how many people were going to play on one server?)

Why can't I take part in testing the patch ? Maybe it would be good enough for me ? All I need to be fixed are those damned character corruptions and server resets. I don't need utilities for advanced server maintenance. And why is it taking that long ? 3 months have passed and I can't play the game with my friends...

I want to shoot all these <censored> who come in with these stupid mods that give them a Titan to start off with.....carrying 18 friggin nomad lasers!

I KNOW where they get the info to mod the ships....but I won't go there.

My server CAN and HAS been up with very little lag with 30 people on it for 20 plus hours...then one ass with mods comes in and screws up my whole server...and I have to restart.

I KNOW DA is working hard on the patch...But the server community needs the patch uber bad.

We can all say this sucks and DA doesn't care, or they aren't doing anything about it.....BUT DA Does cars, and DA *IS* doing something about it. They are probably working WAY extended hours working this patch.

Cut them some slack....Searching for bugs is painstaking work...TRUST me.

Every time you fix one bug....3 more pop up because of that fix....

I know Microsoft products have not had the best track record about patches...BUT Microsoft isn't working on this patch really...It's still DA's devs AFAIK.....

Gut them some slack. Programming is WAY different then modding.....

-Arg

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i guess microsoft's games are like their window platforms, if windows crashes so often so will the games.

Thanks for giving us good hope back again, Arganos. Hope they won't work on the patch as much as on the website Last edit was on february or so.

Sorry, little mistake. They edited their website !! On the 12th of May. Going to check what has been changed later. (I guess only added some good reviews from magazines).

I really hope they are doing the best they can on the patch. The problem is we don't here sh*t , or I have been looking on the wrong sites, then it's my own mistake. I don't mind waiting a bit longer for a good patch.

Greetz, and let's pray all for a quick good errorfree patch

The patch might arrive quicker now that Brute Force (DA's Xbox shooter) has been finished. Then again, that might have no bearing on the patch's ETA whatsoever.

In any case, a patch is needed, and soon. I know DA are beavering away on it, but to always hear "they're working on it" and "we're in constant contact with DA" from selected parties isn't much consolation to server admins always having to avoid people with mods crashing their server.

The cheating issue is also driving down the quality of online FL. No-one wants to play on a server where some guy has made himself practically invincible and is packing a Sabre with Nomad cannons that took him all of five minutes to obtain from level 1.



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/707th/ Zaccix
Member of the 707th Silver Dragons.

I happily ban everyone that pulls that crap...but the number of accounts on my server is getting too large to search thru in the FLServer admin tool....Thankfully Akataka has come up with something SOOOOOOOO much better...it's still in the beta stages....but it works GREAT.

Unfortunately...I can't run it when the CPU usage is pegged at 100%....almost all the time.

Aka is out of the country right now...so work on the beta is temporarily on hold...But the version I have is working just fine...if I run it before CPU usage hits 100%...lol

I personally wish the patch could be released now...But I know I have to be patient, until DA feels confidant about it.

yeah man.. I got hunted down by a group of cheaters in calgary arg lol they did'nt like my tax and release program- thing is these guys were so bad even with thier nomad lasers, speed hacks, invulnerable shields took them around half hour to track me down through 3 systems.. so much for cheating making you leet lol

still not sure why da is wasting time on the anticheat part of the patch if it's gonna take this long.. the server has serious issues that need to be fixed like the crashing- they could have released a fixed server by now imo then finished the anticheat

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still not sure why da is wasting time on the anticheat part of the patch if it's gonna take this long.. the server has serious issues that need to be fixed like the crashing- they could have released a fixed server by now imo then finished the anticheat

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Did you consider they are one in the same?

Stinger is correct.

Most of the time my server crashes...is because of a damn cheater/modder.

Did people ignore me when I said NO MODS OR CHEATS ON --Argonus--??

However...I am still unsure as to why my CPU usage pegs at 100%.....but I still get very few complaints of lag....Very odd indeed