YEAH America's Army GameCD is out !!

simonbh · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 28

if i mount either the iso image or the burned cd itself, all I see is this:

gearheadsmp · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject: Bittorrent?

Anyone want to setup a Bittorrent link?
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simonbh · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 28

http://gentoo.twobit.net/misc/aa-20030513.iso.torrent

Damasz · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: mount cd?

snutte · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject:

This is a must try

/. will probably kill the servers

Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject:

Now please seed the torrent - it's no good if nobody is seeding - I'm at 95% and I'm uploading like a madman, but I'm no good as a seed without those final 5% so please seed this for a few hours if you can.

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

is anybody else having problems with the nvidia drivers and X starting, it just prints loads of unresolved symbols in the nvidia files and fails to load X.

mahdi · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:28 pm Post subject:

I'll get a torrent running at work. I'm sure they won't mind I use some bandwidth over the weekend for this

waxing · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 8

for anyone that is wanting to play this from there installed system i just booted the cd and did "mount /dev/hda3 /root" and then copied /opt/armyops170 to my home dir....to play it just cd to System and type ./armyops-bin

mahdi · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:54 pm Post subject:

zypher · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:56 pm Post subject:

I think you must write a shell-script that cds to the aarmy dir.
At least on my box it only runs if you start the executable from /opt/armyops170/System.
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waxing · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 8

ya it would be cleaner to do it that way...i was just explaining how i did it

Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject:

again with the /usr/ stuff - Portage has always placed binary only games in /opt - just goes to show that the fs structure is unlogical.

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Still haven't found the logic of some things...

Why on earth is mozilla installed in /usr/lib/mozilla :?:

The difference between /var and /opt seems also very vague to me. So I just install everything in /var and ignore /opt and be happy

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Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject:

I'm seeding now, so join in - I managend to get the last 5% of the server, I'll be seeding all night - tomorrow morning I'll have to adjust the upload rate so the other people in my home can use the internet however. So get some big pipes on this --- I wonder why this file wasn't released on bittorrent in the first place - that way the slashdotting wouldn't have been so bad.

djco · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:28 pm Post subject:

I downloaded the ISO and popped it into the computer. The boot is beatiful, so is X, the sound in the game menu works well, but when I try to get to the actual engine, it just keeps doing nothing, even though the CD drive is working it's ass off. I aborted it after about 10 minutes (this is a Windows box, but it's only a few months old).

So is something wrong or should I just let it run some more?

jub0r · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:33 pm Post subject:

somebody needs to post a tarball of the game. I've been downloading this damn iso for ever and I don't want to reboot everytime i want to play army.

zakl · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 73

Please seed the torrents when you download. To seed, simply leave the bit torrent window open when the download finishes. The more seeds the faster this thing can be distributed, so PLEASE help out by leaving your download window open after the "finish" button appears. Bit torrent is a great technology, but needs lots of seeds on files of this size. When only 2 or 3 people are seeding and 100+ people are downloading, it makes the completion process take a LOT LONGER. So please, please help out.

Thanks,

Zak

Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject:

The really cool thing would be to have all the mirror sites run bittorrent, because the would really increase the overall bandwidth, and as you help with the spreading while you download we would actually get faster the most people download (in theory - leechers close their torrents as soon as they finish instead of leaving it open over night, or just a few hours) - thus a slashdotting wouldn't hurt as bad.

tolle · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

The version of America's army at the cd is just the beta? Or is the program supposed to shutdown as fast as you get killed?

Besides, just copying the folder didn't work for me. I get

foxcub · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

Here's a question for you about bittorrent. After my download is completed, and I close the window (for example to reboot and try the game), but want to later on reopen it, so others could download it from me, how do I do this? I.e., how do I restart the bittorrent window for a particular download after I close it?

Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

just reopen the file like always.

zakl · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 73

Ok, if you want to stop it and start seeding later, this is what you do.

1) Simply follow the torrent link again, and open the torrent.
2) When the bt save as box pops up, navigate to the directory with the file and click on the file.
3) After selecting the file click save.

Bit Torrent will do a check on the file to make sure the checksums match, and after verifying that it is in fact the exact same file, it will recognize the file is complete, and start uploading.

This same method may be used to resume a torrent, in case you don't have time to finish a file and need to do something else, or need the extra bandwidth.

That's it!

Zak

DaleNixon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 91

My system is a Tbird 1.3GHz with a GeForce3 Ti200 card... the CD boots (pretty splash screen!) but goes black soon after the "logging in as root..." message. I'm assuming it's trying to start X automatically. The usual ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work, so I have to hit the hard reboot button.

Does anyone have any helpful hints, or better yet, how do I mount the livecd.cloop file so I can just copy the game to my HD?
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ak_hepcat · n00b Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Anchorage, Ak

I've extracted the AAOR directory from the cloop archive, and want to set up a dedicated server.

I've followed the instructions on the AA website, howevere it doesn't seem to want to start up a server. It crashes when trying to open an Xwindow.

I'm using this to start the game: