Im going crazy , please help!

[Xodus]

I'll try and make this as clear as possiable seing as I don't know whats happening myself. I'm trying to create a tremulous server using the "tremded.exe". I've followed many guides and I'm sure I have the right files in the right places...

I have the latest backport client with tremded.exe in the folder along with the server files. The admin.dat is in the application data folder and I added the Google's 2.4 game.qvm into the base file in application data (renamed from normal_game.qvm). When I launch it the server, I get this error:

----- finished R_Init -----
Loading vm file vm/ui.qvm...
...which has vmMagic VM_MAGIC_VER2
Loading 1073 jump table targets
VM file ui compiled to 798363 bytes of code
ui loaded in 4602880 bytes on the hunk
Unknown extension for ui/menus.txt
WARNING: couldn't open music file ui/menus.txt
recursive error after: menu file not found: ui/menus.txt, using default

then it freezes and i have to close it...

I have the latest backport client, which works fine at connecting to other servers. What is missing??

Is there any way to get different patches (for example the !pause and !buildlog patches) on the actual tremulous server console? or is there a mod or anything which has all the patches on?

Sorry if this question has been answered already, I've searched this forum and google but still can't find answers. Please help...

[Knowitall66]

Are you opening tremded.exe? Cause if you are you didnt follow the tutorials right.

http://warrior.memebot.com/tutorial-eng.html                         ----- Tremulous Dedicated Server Tut (Look at bottom comments)
'Every time you want to run your server you'll only need to execute the .bat recently created.'

[Xodus]

Ty for the link, I managed to run the server from a .bat file but then recieved the error :

********************
ERROR: G_ParseSpawnVars: found  when expecting {
********************
----- Server Shutdown (Server crashed: G_ParseSpawnVars: found  when expecting {) -----
==== ShutdownGame ====
ShutdownGame:

I searched this and apparently the game.qvm and tremded.exe files dont match. So I re-installed tremulous, downloaded thee game.qvm from "http://tremulous.tjw.org/backport/win32/" and put it in "C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\Local Settings\Application Data\Tremulous\vm" on my computer (is this right). I also have the newest tremulous.exe backport client (SVN931-4-win32) and tremded.exe from the same web directory as the game.qvm. I still got the same error!

Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong??? Also, even if I do get these to match and make a server, it wont have the commands like !pause and !buildlog which is the whole point in me making the server using tremded... I was planning to use the "googles_mod2[1].4_svn966.patch" which has all the updated commands on it. Is there a simple way to apply this patch and get the server running without having to compile becuase I'm finding this hard enough as it is? If not, please could someone post a link to a guide? Thanks...

[benmachine]

"C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\Local Settings\Application Data\Tremulous\vm"

that's \Tremulous\base\vm

Yes, you need to compile to use patches. Be careful what you use though. A well-known and well-tested QVM like Lakitu7's is probably better for most purposes.

[Xodus]

OK thanks for the help. I just have two questions left:

1) Is there anywhere I can download a pre-compiled game.qvm and tremded with the latest patches?
2) How do you allow a server operator at level 5 to use commands in the "`" console (in-game) such as g_markdeconstruct 0? When I try it it doesn't do anything. I have to use the actual server console...

[Rocinante]

OK thanks for the help. I just have two questions left:

1) Is there anywhere I can download a pre-compiled game.qvm and tremded with the latest patches?

Lakitu7's game.qvm is here and the corresponding tremded is here.  There's a little more testing to be done, and a new version of Lak's QVM will be released with some bugfixes and new features.

2) How do you allow a server operator at level 5 to use commands in the "`" console (in-game) such as g_markdeconstruct 0? When I try it it doesn't do anything. I have to use the actual server console...

With 'rcon'.  You can either type "/rcon <password> <console command>" in your client console, or the quicker way of "/set rconpassword <password>" and then just "/rcon <command>".  The password is set in your server config file.