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I know mumble just for a few months yet but it convinced me within minutes. Server is setup in five minutes, Client is a peace of cake as well for everyone who´s familiar with TS2. It gets a bit tricky with indepth-settings but the enormous low latency and high voice quality requiring such low bandwidth compared with TS3 is just impressive. The Overlay that shows you who´s speaking while playing is also a very helpful tool.

Ah, ok thank you very much galzohar. Problem is: As much I´d like to try what you´re suggesting immediately so completely unable I am to do it as long as I don´t know what to change in which file exactly, I´ve really no coding-skills worth mentioning. :( AAS has no dedicated coder for months now and kju helped a lot to prevent this project from being dead already if it comes to coding. Maybe I can get him looking into your post. Thanks again!

I thought that this is the point where we are at already but I´m not a coder/scripter to finally judge that. From what I´ve heard as you just said as well the handling of weather/tod needs to be changed fundamentally to really fix it. At least the according ticket got not rejected so far.

Thanks mate! Seems it has still some stability issues here and there right? Requires CBA as well. Honestly I´m not sure about Addons at this point as they might give me and the players a hard time again if crashes (clients and serverside) occur that might be caused by OA, Betas, specific settings, AAS, Hardware or such Addons. It ends up in an endless minefield of troubleshooting. We already have many issues like: - FLIR-Vehicle-Disable-Fix not working JIP-Save and only with Beta-Patches (so some can still use FLIR, some not on the same server and of course only Blue has it...) - Medic-Revice only working with Beta-Patches - Beta-Patch-Players have an aiming-Disadvantage due to changed recoil-behaviour - Weather and Daytime not JIP-Save (Players on the same server have different daytimes and weather!) which is far from being perfect in a PvP-Environment. At least the first three points will be fixed/consistent with the next offical OA-Patch. So I´m not really convinced yet that I like the idea of having players on the same server hearing differents sounds, seeing different textures or explosions especially if this can affect the overall gaming experience and stability.

Hey bensdale, thank you very much. Due to stability issues we disabled Addon-Support completely to sort that out. As it seems Ingame-VON-Support was causing the server-crashes we might get back to support some Addons, guess I´ll start a poll about that soon in the Basecamp-Forums to get an impression if this is welcome and what Addons our players like to see supported. Thanks for your Input! Can you point me to that Sound-Mod-Release-Thread? cya Toaster

Nice idea, so my Tip is: visit www.advanceandsecure.com to participate in the growing "AAS-Advance and Secure" community and join the AAS-Basecamp-Server by www.basecamp-allstars.de . i7-920 with 8GB DDR-3, same datacenter as the dao.nu servers ;-)

According to my Logs you were playing on the Basecamp AAS-Server, yes. :)

Updated Inital post with V1.13 Information (it´s already four weeks old, I know, better late than never) Haven´t checked out AAS yet? Then it´s about time! Checkout www.advanceandsecure.com for dedicated-server-Activies, there´s an Activity-Indicator on the right side below the AAS-Network logo. Click it for more detailed information. The AAS-Network is hiring! We´re looking for: - Newspostes/Bloggers on our AAS-Homepage under www.advanceandsecure.com and Forums - Making an englisch AAS-Video-Guide (german version is already up, englisch subtitle-file would do the job already) - AAS-Promoters in ArmA2-/OA-Related Forums (Armed-Assault.de/BI-Forum/Armaholic) offering help and support to new A2/OA customers in general and of course for those who are interested in AAS - AAS-Supporters (passive, just spread the word about AAS by using our Logos as Avatar or the signatures like I do here in other Game-Related Forums)

Have it there as well since 26.6.2010, so it came with OA which I installed that day. Shouldn´t prevent you from joining any OA-Servers. I suggest trying a server that´s not using/requiring any Addons (not even Arma2) like that one in my signature which is running pure Arrowhead.

Really great work, wish I had that one year ago knowing nothing about ArmA-Hosting. Great Tool!

I load nothing else than AAS-Missions and I can´t confirm such observerations. We had 60 players yesterday, of course I see some (and the same) players being constantly kicked with such messages but I don´t think that´s related with the server side. However, without proper Input from the Threadstarter to all the questions it´s just guessing. @Aussie Which Version and Revision of AAS? Which Ruleset being used? Vanilla files as I released them or customized? PLEASE provide some Information one can work with.

That looks absolutely great!

Maybe updating BE manually or contacting BE-Support directly helps. Guess it´s not an issue on the server-side. According to your problem the FAQ says: So maybe resetting your Internet Connection, Updating your Router Firmware or replacing your router should be considered. Personal Firewalls if you´re behind a router should be disabled at least for testing. What´s your connection speed and what is your ping to the server/where are you from RogueBlase?

Thanks for mentioning AAS guys. You find a List of AAS-Servers here. Just follow the Gametracker-Links for more details such as these for the Basecamp-Server for example:

Honestly I was looking at the BattlEye Homepage first to find that information/confirmation about the "administrator priviliges issue". Guess I´ll look here first next time. :-) As much as I understand why this change makes perfect sense and the error-message itself as well it seems some people don´t understand what´s happening at all. During the past two days I´ve seen players trying to connect and being kicked endlessly (and it´s still going on). Either they ignore the message, they are blind or they simply don´t know what "run as admin" means or how to do it and are not aware of this post. It´s a bit of a luxury problem but this has caused significant more JIP-Activitiy leading to additional Lag/Timeouts on our server. Just did a quick search over our server_console.log for "Missing OS Privileges": 296 Hits in two days. Some players knew what to do but at least were concerned about this change in behaviour. Of course we could sort that out, as you´re announcing such a change in your FAQ for the future. I´m not a coder but maybe running BE as a service in the future gets the user out of the way in this process?

Just took everything and it´s running fine. Great job with that mission parameters via server.cfg, that was my first question in the A2-Community one year ago and whisper made that ticket after he couldn´t help me (and others) with that. Great job!

You are always welcome :)

We always run the latest beta-patches on our server. To get rid of that "red question-mark" all you need to do is move the "beta-contents" upwards to the root-path and overwrite the original files. Now you don´t need to use the - -mod-command for running the beta anymore. Of course this is not gonna be called "best practice" I guess but if you make a copy of your original-dir before you do this nothing can really happen. At least this works for us and the player numbers exploded after I did it this way.

Thank you very much Ginger! I guess the AK74 was almost the worst weapon one could think of to add Thermal View. It makes more damage to throw that rifle at your enemy (and has almost the same range). :-)) Unfortunately there is no SCAR without grenade launcher and Thermal View that I could use as perfect choice but your post brings me to an idea: What I can do is simply remove the M203 grenades from that weapon in that Kit. Thanks for that. ;-)

Unfortunately that was clearly my fault. However, will think of an Exit-Strategy for that Installer-Project. Meanwhile maybe something positive for the other five AAS-Fans out there: A new AAS-Mission-Release: "AAS-Advance and Secure for Operation Arrowhead V1.13". Changelog: Thermal View disabled in AAS on Vehicles that gave Blue an unfair advantage. (Currently Beta-Patch dependent!) Medic Revive working again (dead bodies do not disappear instantly anymore if the patient is using the latest Beta-Patch) X-Ray Spawn-Protection added, you can´t shoot into and from X-Ray-Bases anymore The AAS-HUD has been improved: Enlarged Minimap, Improved Contrast everywhere and fixed overlapping AAS/ArmA-HUD-Elements Added AAS-Network Loading-Screen so people know where to go find our more about AAS Moved Standard Linear-Default AAS-Template without Neutral from Chernarus to OA-Desert Ten new AAS-Mission Added M32/M79 Grenade-Launchers to Grenadier-Class to both sides (experimental) Added Themal View Mk16 to Blues Recon as counterpart for Reds Goshawk. Great for spotting Snipers! Improved Engineer-Class-Names Improved Weapon-Descriptions on Kits-Menu mproved/Rebalanced Kits Added already legendary "Naked Mole" Fireteam Several Bugfixes

Unfortunately this is the only known issue -> http://dev-heaven.net/issues/10717 . :( What I could not foresee is, that the latest patch 1.07 brings the original ArmA2-Uninstaller back in place and overwrites the AAS-Uninstaller, so all "AAS-Uninstaller" Links no point to the ArmA2-Uninstaller instead. Still working on a solution for that. Meanwhile you have to delete the @AAS-Folder within ArmA2 manually if you want to get rid of AAS, it´s not really an installed application anyway, just copied Data and Shortcuts. Again, I´m really sorry for this!

Updated Startpost with the AAS for OA-Release. Have fun.

Hey Folks Today we´ll host the first public "AAS for Operation Arrowhead" Session. The server is ready as you see in my signature. There are some known issues you should be aware of. So lets check for some more and general stability and performance under load on the Dedicated server for the first time and report any Feedback in our AAS-Forums. Aj8AgR2zjoc FSFuP6qCwbY

Well, even a non-mobile radeon 9800 will hardly run ArmA2 I guess. That thing is five chip-generations behind today and one if not the slowest in its own family.