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Here's another two mirrors: http://armed-assault.de/downloads/cwr-cold-war-rearmed-public-beta.html

The German release seems firm at this point. They wouldn't have confirmed it last week, otherwise.

Impressive trailer, and thanks for the feedback ohara Armed-Assault.de Trailer Stream Armed-Assault.de Trailer Download Two more mirrors from Germany

We backed up all of our files on a seperate harddrive and on a seperate backup server, we have older backups on other servers and we handed out phpMyAdmin access to all our hosted websites for personal backups, including the BTS. On the other hand we're just not able to prepare for freak occurrences like this one. Once the provider wipes both our servers and our backup space, we're esentially out of options. Maybe boecke has his own backup, or maybe we still have one of our own somewhere. We'll come to that when we're sure that our drives are really a lost cause.

BIS is not involved in the bug tracker. We had backups of our own, but it seems the host deleted those as well. You can plan ahead for disk failure, file corruption and hacking .. but a renegade booking system is not something we had factored in. At this point we're trying to get our hands on the harddrives and perform data rescue, but as I said .. they haven't exactly been cooperative so far. @El nino Foxhound Thank you for the offer. Sadly, right now only the ISP can help us.

A certain German ISP wiped our harddrives and re-rented our servers, without prior warning or even a reason. Apparently the booking system was faulty .. we lost all data and are currently working with (read: against) the support people to patch the whole mess up. This proves to be difficult because that particular ISP doesn't even keep a copy of our contract with them. We have some older backups, but as long as we don't get our hardware back, these are of no use to us.

We had to move the bugtracker to a new server, the harddrive on the old one broke. For all I know there was no data loss. You should be able to reach the tracker in the next couple of hours, depending on your ISP (the domain points to a new location, updates take a while). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Morphicon announced that another patch will be available in a few hours (4 hours, at the time of writing). It boasts a massive changelog and 290MB file size. It will update all the different versions of the game, including the US release. The update process is most likely similiar to the previous public beta: It won't touch your files, just create a "beta" directory. A new server is apparently included. Update #2: Download the Patch Update: Read the final changelog View the (German) announcement

The joy of "community" sites. They're usually more interested in showing fancy download pages with ads telling you not to hotlink than actually serving up the file. What's with the passive aggessive tone? We serve the files, which creates hosting bills, which leads us to ads or donations. That's the same with all websites. Call me a hypocrite, but showing ads seems like a better deal than requiring registration or hotlinking to other sites (.. which are then talked down on as "community" sites).

Check the first post for several working (and hopefully fast) mirrors.

Behold .. BIS and Atari released another demo version of Armed Assault, this time for the upcoming release in the US. Can't tell you much about the contents though, only that it contains a total of 6 missions and a reduced mission editor. No word on the new jet or any other exclusives .. there hasn't even been an official announcement for all we know. Read more and download

.. add a multicore CPU to that and you could actually make use of it with the server software by running the AI server on one core and the dedicated server on another. I think that would be the main advantage for most people. On the other hand you probably can't just rip out the AI routines like that and give them their own dedicated app.

If you're planning to host a 10 slot coop server for your friends or clan mates then 20GB might just be sufficient. "Never" might have been too blunt, my apologies. However my personal understanding of an ArmA server is somewhat larger in size. When we talk about hosting a game most people will have in mind 20-30 players, and so do I. To my understanding a server will always use a certain amount of bandwitdh per player, at least with default settings. How exactly can there be different "outcomes", apart from size and popularity? Also I am not assuming in any way, I stated what my log files told me, based on the premises I mentioned above.

Placebo said earlier that the new demo exe is not a real standalone server so it still needs a working graphics card (unlike the server for the full version). You might want to update DirectX to the latest October release and restart the demo server for a couple of times. Interestingly the latter helped on our box. No idea why

Never. A reasonably well visited Coop server with VON and an average of 20 players that stay on for 5 hours a day (I say again: reasonably popular) uses around 250GB/month. Make that 200GB without VON and 300GB if you tune the settings for higher-than-default bandwidth. In our case (server.armed-assault.de:41910) a very well visited Coop server used ~200GB in just two weeks (no VON). I based my estimations on that and on a post by Suma (?) who said that bandwidth per player is 32kb/s with VON enabled (16kb/s in either direction). A CTI server on the other hand might well use up to 1TB/month if it's popular (which probably won't be the case, given the current instability of the server and the massive desync that often occurs). I suggest you look out for a dedicated server with >250GB/month traffic included if you're planning to host a popular public server in the long run.

That is very useful, thank you. Here's another mirror, direct and working: http://dl1.armed-assault.de/screenshots/sahrani_hires_physical.zip

Since this problem is not related to the issues mentioned in the dedicated server thread, I took the liberty to open a new one. After installing the mutliplayer demo, adding the new demo *.exe and starting it with several startup parameters (-server -config=config.cfg -port=xxxx) the console pops up, stays for a few seconds and then throws the following error: "Display adapter does not support format D24S8 for R5G6B5." Apparently it's trying to access SM 2.0, but fails - since it's an average server it doesn't have a graphics card supporting any Shader Models. Why is it trying to use the graphics card? It's supposed to be a standalone server after all. The dedicated server for the full version runs flawlessly on the same machine. Some other server owners reported similar problems. Latest DX 9.0c is installed, as well as OpenAL included in 1.02. OS is WinXP SP2.

We updated our files on ArmA.de and ArmA.net, that meant file corruption for some users. We apologize for that. By now everything works flawlessly, I double checked the files from each of our mirrors. For the curious, MD5 checksum of the 5019 version is a34161d40c064ba8c808f80ee81dd348 Another mirror: ftp://88.191.41.75/demo/ArmADemo103FINAL.zip

It's very real, Fileplanet has had exclusive rights for several demos. Once it's actually released you will probably be able to download it as a non-suscriber, but of cousre with significantly higher waiting times. But since there's gonna be other places hosting the demo you might not want to wait for fileplanet.

Here's the first round of mirrors, in case the LEM server catches on fire ftp://armed-assault.de/aa/sonstiges/Arma_PL_Patch_102.zip ftp://armed-assault.net/patches/Arma_PL_Patch_102.zip ftp://88.191.41.75/patches/Arma_PL_Patch_102.zip

They are, if that's not enough you will have to find a different ISP or wait for their next round of rootservers.

In most cases I know of Strato limited bandwidth only for excessive usage, i.e. >5TB for several months. You won't come close to that with several ArmA server, I can assure you. You'd need a stronger CPU to max out 5TB with ArmA servers .. and that's where I agree with you. Strato hardware might not be enough for several gameservers. 1&1 limits bandwitdh every 250GB to 10Mbit/s, buy only after you used up more than 1TB and only for the rest of the month. In your case it probably wouldn't suffice, but if you need only one big gameserver 1&1 is also an option. I recommend T-Online over all the others, including NGZ and its branches. I have the pleasure of using two T-Online high-end servers - network speed and bandwidth are top notch and so is the hardware. NGZ, on the other hand, has been known to suffer from insufficient speed and outages .. they sell all the servers they have and then notice their network can't handle the stress - or so it seems. Although generally speaking they are a good choice and according to their manager they have expanded a lot, network-wise. What the hell, just don't buy a 1blu server

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT waste your money on a 1blu server. Bandwidth is terrible, pings are high and lags are inevitable with those servers. Even worse is the support. It's practically non-existing. If you don't believe me, go ahead and ask Google for some other opinions. Here's a list of German hosters that are perfectly suitable for gameservers and still manage to be cheap: http://www2.service.t-online.de/dyn/c/44/81/64/4481644.html http://hetzner.de http://netdirekt.de/c/cms/front_content.php?idcat=3&idlang=1 http://www.1und1.info/xml/order/Server http://www.ngz-server.de/rootserver/rootserver.php http://www.strato.de/server/index.html http://www.server4you.de/ Most of them I tested myself. Strato, Server4you and 1und1 are huge companies which often have better deals but less support. Of all the companies T-Online & 1und1 have the best connections, Hetzner by far the best support and Netdirekt together with NGZ-Server are probably the best overall offers.

BIS/Morphicon/LEM released the first round of patches for Armed Assault, fixing a number of performance issues. German patch is 14MB, Czech weighs 35MB. Either one should resolve low framerates and such. Download German Patch 1.01 Download Czech Patch 1.01 Changelog:

505 Games asked the sites to gather opinions, I should think that this is an exception to that rule.