Just curious to know if anybody is playing BF2 on windows Server 2003. I'm thinking about installing it, but i just wanted to see if anybody had a successfull install
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I am sure there are some people out there playing on 2k3. But, that said horsing around with 2k3 is not the same as using 2000 server. Yea, you can still get DirectX to work on it, but there are a handful of kernel security features in place that might not make it worth your time. But, then again, it could run really well because a hell of a lot of services are disabled compaired to XP!
Good Luck.
Hey Sean, congrads on the promotion.
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Originally posted by scknightI'm pretty sure I have heard of people playing on it. Could always just try it!
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Originally posted by RocketChildI have a huge buddy list at BF2s in my leader board. There are so many people that don't know they are in there!
uh...better say something on-topic....I like WS2003, it works for my company!
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Originally posted by RocketChildyah, 2003 FTW! mass conversions from 2000 to 2003. Oh, and mass SQL 2000 to SQL2005!
BTW, OP, tell me when you get BF2 running well in Redhat or Suse.
What do most BF2 dedicated servers run on? Is it Windows?
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Originally posted by RocketChildWell, I don't see very many OSX Apple servers if that is what you are asking.
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i play on w2003 ent pr1 [as my home desktop - it is nice to be in msdnaa]
it runs MUCH better than on xp when you are short on ram, 2k3 ram handling is exceptional and very very good. nothing with xp can compete. after i bought another 1gb of ram that problem/feature vanished, but i still im impressed with stability and performance of 2k3 based desktop systems.
however you need some [and i mean SOME] win related knowledge to setup 2k3 right. especialy during sp1 integration, it can seriously f.. up your older games [it puts dx6! into the system and blocks dx8.1 [required by bf1942 and other titles]]. so beware! if you are novice, or think about yourself as a pro, ask youself a question - do you know what the desktop heap is? if you dont know, stay with xp.
conclusion - yes, you can play bf2 on 2k3
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Originally posted by scknightha. Well, i've seen linux dedicated servers and etc, but I don't know about what most games use. I suppose most games are made for Windows anyway...so that answers my question. lol.
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Originally posted by RocketChildEverything is made for DirectX APIs. Id will code for OpenGL. Glad to see Apple move to x86 architecture. Maybe we will see some ports. But, that is the big joke about all those Apple commercials about how bad windows sucks, you still can't game on a Mac.
I honestly have not kept up with Apple, so I had no idea about them going to x86 architecture, to be more honest, i didn't know they weren't x86...heh
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Originally posted by sidtherati play on w2003 ent pr1 [as my home desktop - it is nice to be in msdnaa]
it runs MUCH better than on xp when you are short on ram, 2k3 ram handling is exceptional and very very good. nothing with xp can compete. after i bought another 1gb of ram that problem/feature vanished, but i still im impressed with stability and performance of 2k3 based desktop systems.
however you need some [and i mean SOME] win related knowledge to setup 2k3 right. especialy during sp1 integration, it can seriously f.. up your older games [it puts dx6! into the system and blocks dx8.1 [required by bf1942 and other titles]]. so beware! if you are novice, or think about yourself as a pro, ask youself a question - do you know what the desktop heap is? if you dont know, stay with xp.
conclusion - yes, you can play bf2 on 2k3
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