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Here...let me preface this first...so you penguin loving people can spare me the usual MS sux stuff  ;-)

I am running Vista! My maps and q3config.cfg are stored in my Root/Users/*User*/AppData/Roaming/Open_Arena directory....
I have been playing Q3 based games for a long time now...and this doesn't seem normal! Even ET puts its maps and stuff in the directory under Program Files in Vista!
Is this a known issue already? Cuz if it is, I'll just install it on my hardware inferior XP machine and ill be through with it.

So now the process by which I get this error....

1. I run either of the OA_DED*.exe's with the switches +set dedicated 2 +exec server.cfg,
2. I then launch the Open Arena game. (yes on the same machine, got 3 gigs of ram)
3. I try connecting to localhost:27960, my local IP address:27960 on my router, and even to my router's IP address:27960 (port forwarding is setup!)
4. Open Arena says my server is using protocol 68.   

What I've seen thus far trying to figure it out!

1. The dedicated server .exe's both start up as protocol 68 independent of my running the full Open Arena game!  Looking through the console messages theres 3 or four references to it in some sort of directory form! (And I can't find the directories in my Users or Program Files dirs!)

2. If I configure the server from within Open Arena, then minimize the mess after its running as dedicated, I can launch a seperate instance of the game and connect to the server! This is sloppy though because I have no console on the server to configure the server properly, and it will not configure an rcon password!

Am I missing something here? I've tried reinstalling the game and patch from the zip and not just the installer. I've tried running everything as an Administrator.  Still the same old protocol 68 message!

Any help would be much appreciated!

This is a design decision. If you don't want it you can start the game "+set fs_homepath PATH" to where you want the files to go. This can also be used if you are running the dedicated server and client under the same username.


I must admit that I never got a chance to test the oa_ded.exe file although it surprises me that it still uses protocol 68. That seems to be my mistake (the protocol number is hardcoded in the binary).

You can launch a dedicated server with the normal binary like this: "openarena.exe +set dedicated 2 +exec server.cfg"

Yeap...did it and it worked!!!!!! SWEEEEETTTTT!!! 

I've been been up to my f*cking eyeballs staring at code for all sorts of stuff today and didn't even think of that....

Thanks a lot sago...I appreciate it....
sorry that i wasn't quite clear about the "known issue" deal...i meant if it was a known issue that vista does this which causes the patch process to get screwy...id just fix it the easy way...

lol im actually about to throw my copy of vista out my window...only reason i even use it is to do dev on an IIS 7 box....

Now i just have to to copy, paste, merge, and modify .cfg's....

Yeah...me and a couple buddies got spoiled by the hey days of ET/RTCW with 50+ people on a server...Q3 bots in the right mix can fill that void nicely, but people don't have enough of em on their servers :)

the prospects of some pretty kick ass ways to mod it sound awesome too!

For clients, it would be good if you could launch the game, have a single folder.. with..

/baseoa/

./mods/here

./mods/testin

If I had an executable which would behave like that then it could prevent alot of the problems people get confused with and be simpler to manage overall

Can anyone confirm whether this is a problem with oa_ded.exe default, or just mismatched assets / binaries?

When running 0.7.7 with the old 0.7.0 client, I see a couple of servers claiming to be 0.7.7 that I otherwise never see.  (The cat-man-du (http://q3eu.com/modules.php?name=NukeWrap&page=OABROWSER) servers immediately drop out with client_unknown_to_auth, naturally.)

The Linux binaries does not have the problem. I cannot check the exe right now.

Some servers are running with there own binary (including catmandu and OpServices). GameArena is using the 0.7.6 binary (and that might be the wrong exe that is packed)