105 beta dedicated server, how to?

[Tankbuster 1733]

Ikon board's fantastic search turned up nothing, so I'll ask here.

How do I go about using the 1.05 beta dedicated server?

I have a 1.05 euro patched version, fully installed (from DVD, not just copied files from another install) that has been also patched to 1.05 beta. The machine its running on is a Athlon 3200+ with 2 gig of RAM and a 7600gs graphics card (probably not relevent here).

If I run the server executable in the beta directory (I use a desktop shortcut which calls the config file, also in the beta dir), I get a windows popup error; no entry ".profilePathDefault". If I ok that dialogue, the server does start. What's causing this and is it serious?

I tried copying the exe from the beta dir to the main system dir and running that, but it generated even worse errors (can't remember excatly what) and bombed out.

Any help'd be appreciated,.

Tanky -Paul-

[Rastavovich 0]

The server needs to be started in another current directory enviroment similar to the way the regular beta exe is started.

Look at the startbetapatch.bat to see how to do it.

[Tankbuster 1733]

Aha!!

I created a batch file called startbetapatchserver.bat with this in it.

START "" /D"%CD%" /B "%CD%\beta\ArmA_Server.exe" -mod=beta -nosplash -config=server.cfg

That worked a treat. Fantastic. Thank you very much.

[Tankbuster 1733]

LOL. I'm not sure -nosplash is strictly necessary in this instance!