Hello. I recently setup a small (10 node, 150 user) telnet bbs for nostalgic purposes, and my users have been complaining about serious lag and/or being booted from TW when attacked by or while attacking online and offline players. I'm not sure what may have caused this, as I am running a P4 1.5ghz with 512mb DDR ram on Windows 2000 (TradeWars DPMI mod) and haven't had any such problems with LORD / Usurper. I will paste in some snippets from my error log that I think are relevant, and the result of the "@" command in-game. Thanks in advance!

quote:Trade Wars 2002 Version 3.09
WinNT Detected - DPMI mode.

Memory Status:
15,562,564 bytes available.
15,559,472 largest free block available.
15,560,500 minimum bytes available this session.

Stack Status:
59,008 stack bytes available.
52,338 minimum stack bytes available this session.

Object Allocation Status:
154,564 bytes allocated.
156,628 maximum bytes allocated.

Average Interval Lag:
8 hundredths

quote:06/02/15 12:09:46 PM Mindbomb (8) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (5). User ejected from game!
06/02/15 12:09:54 PM Tricky (7) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (7). User ejected from game!
06/02/15 12:10:17 PM Durga Barsh (17) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (5). User ejected from game!
06/02/15 12:10:20 PM Game Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (5). User ejected from game!

quote:06/02/15 11:49:19 PM Tinthalas Tigris (15) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWSect.DAT (3761). User ejected from game!
06/02/15 11:49:31 PM Tulweyen (12) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWSect.DAT (3761). User ejected from game!

quote:06/05/15 01:33:03 AM Zegelmorph (6) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (6). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 01:34:02 AM Zegelmorph (6) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (6). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 01:34:21 AM Mindbomb (8) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 01:54:29 AM AbEnd:
EC=216 LF=c:\sbbs\xtrn L1=OtherMoveCheck L2=PWriteLn_ErrorLog Addr=0010:055C
06/05/15 02:32:23 AM Mindbomb (8) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:32:40 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:32:54 AM Game Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:33:04 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:33:19 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:33:19 AM Game Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:33:35 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:33:47 AM Game Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:34:29 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:34:37 AM Game Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:34:53 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:35:12 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:35:27 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:35:33 AM Zegelmorph (6) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (8). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:38:18 AM Mindbomb (8) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWShip.DAT (1). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:39:34 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (1). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 02:45:57 AM Raivin (1) Halted:
BBS Time Expired.
06/05/15 03:24:47 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:25:06 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:25:21 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:25:35 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:25:55 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:26:13 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:26:30 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:26:53 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWUser.DAT (20). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 03:29:52 AM Chrono Trigger (4) Halted:
Timeout while attempting access to c:\sbbs\xtrn\tw2002\TWSect.DAT (1755). User ejected from game!
06/05/15 09:44:32 AM Game Halted:
Timed out due to inactivity.

quote:Originally posted by seretogis

Hello. I recently setup a small (10 node, 150 user) telnet bbs for nostalgic purposes, and my users have been complaining about serious lag and/or being booted from TW when attacked by or while attacking online and offline players. I'm not sure what may have caused this, as I am running a P4 1.5ghz with 512mb DDR ram on Windows 2000 (TradeWars DPMI mod) and haven't had any such problems with LORD / Usurper. I will paste in some snippets from my error log that I think are relevant, and the result of the "@" command in-game. Thanks in advance!


Try setting up your BBS so that when it launches old DOS door games that it runs each node in a separate memory space for one thing, then check a couple of other settings. You didn't mention anything about your setup so I'll be general. First, go to your WINNT\System32 folder and edit Config.NT. You'll find the active settings close to the bottom of the file, including a ridiculous default value of FILES=40. I'd recommend changing that to FILES=120 at least (max is 255). Next, edit the batch file that is launching TW2002 and make sure that before it loads the TW2002 executable that it loads SHARE.EXE. It doesn't really do anything according to the Win2k docs but it is there for compatibility purposes. I'm thinking it provides some virtualized 'hooks' needed for certain DOS programs that depend on it to function correctly.

Personally, I've not had this problem running a multi-user TW2002 game on an NT platform but then I've been using a very minimal front-end to do it rather than a full BBS. Try those things and then if you're still having problems post a little bit more about your setup so it's easier to narrow things down.

quote:Originally posted by Thistledown

quote:Originally posted by seretogis

Hello. I recently setup a small (10 node, 150 user) telnet bbs for nostalgic purposes, and my users have been complaining about serious lag and/or being booted from TW when attacked by or while attacking online and offline players. I'm not sure what may have caused this, as I am running a P4 1.5ghz with 512mb DDR ram on Windows 2000 (TradeWars DPMI mod) and haven't had any such problems with LORD / Usurper. I will paste in some snippets from my error log that I think are relevant, and the result of the "@" command in-game. Thanks in advance!


Try setting up your BBS so that when it launches old DOS door games that it runs each node in a separate memory space for one thing, then check a couple of other settings. You didn't mention anything about your setup so I'll be general. First, go to your WINNT\System32 folder and edit Config.NT. You'll find the active settings close to the bottom of the file, including a ridiculous default value of FILES=40. I'd recommend changing that to FILES=120 at least (max is 255). Next, edit the batch file that is launching TW2002 and make sure that before it loads the TW2002 executable that it loads SHARE.EXE. It doesn't really do anything according to the Win2k docs but it is there for compatibility purposes. I'm thinking it provides some virtualized 'hooks' needed for certain DOS programs that depend on it to function correctly.

Personally, I've not had this problem running a multi-user TW2002 game on an NT platform but then I've been using a very minimal front-end to do it rather than a full BBS. Try those things and then if you're still having problems post a little bit more about your setup so it's easier to narrow things down.


Thistledown

You are correct about this. The old DMPI version of v3.11 requires that SHARE.EXE be loaded before running TW2002. Other wise the files needed will be locked by a previous instance of TW2002 that is running.

this does not seem to work at all I still get unable to get a file lock on twuser.dat. using synchronet and put a batch file in each node

share.exe
tw2002.exe twnode=nodenumber