Questions on server hardware requirements, bandwidth, launching, etc

[Vas]

Just to be sure, what do you think I could run on my laptop? I have i7 2.0GHz (turbo on at 3.1GHz), 8GB DDR3 SDRAM.

Only issue i have is I am unable to join my own server because of IPv6 errors and IPv6 is apparently needed within my network.

[Chuck850]

I've never had luck with IPv6 running on the server OS. FL tries to bind to it, and will even display part of it's IPv6 address in the server list of an associated client, but it does not work. In my experience you need to remove IPv6 completely off the server OS or do some funky work to hide it from Freelancer.

Freelancer doesn't take much horsepower unless you get a large community going, however be warned, most laptops aren't made to run 24 hours a day. Our first server was a laptop, and we killed it in about a month's time (fan died, processor overheated, machine went bye-bye).

Desktops are cheap. We ran 40 users max on a cheap Core 2 Duo E5300 for a year or more and it managed that load just fine. I'd hate to kill a nice i7 based laptop running it 24x7. Go to a yard sale and scrounge a cheap case, a 350 watt power supply, a small hard drive, and then put a little money into a motherboard, processor, and 2GB of memory and you're done.

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[Vas]

My laptop has been on every single day since the moment I bought it, my previous one lasted 4 and a half years and the issue that killed it was age, it works but it doesn't run what I want it to.

Do you think http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ would fix this IPv6 problem?

[spikefin]

My laptop has been on every single day since the moment I bought it, my previous one lasted 4 and a half years and the issue that killed it was age, it works but it doesn't run what I want it to.

Do you think http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ would fix this IPv6 problem?

A) All computers are made to run 24/7 but only under acceptable heat dissipation conditions, Damage is caused to PC's and laptops by the hardware expanding and contracting from on/of states, this is why the delicate Surface Mount Components solder connections crack, Also, Resistance is comparative to heat, a cool computer has far less resistance so is overpowered causing damage with high processor loads, Everything is relative, I run many servers on laptops, not game servers, So i don't know the associated load of FLServer. When i did run a FLserver for nearly a year, I run a Reverse Engineered Linux FL server on a 486 with 128 mb ram from memory, we only had 10 people on it though.

IPv6 Creates many client server issues with many programs, Including the windows Network Bridge, There is a method of forcing a correct bind.

I don't know if the software at the link you provided uses the method i have used a few times before, If i get some time i will try re-finding the information for you. I do know the last time i had to fix an IPv6 Issue it was for a Network Bridge, Im assuming a google of "Windows network Bridge does not allow traffic" or something similar was used to find the correct procedure.

I was using freelancer server on 4.86 release on an IPv6 Machine with no problems to check out the cloaks and JJ's.

The machine was running a fresh OS the only "mods" i had done to the machine at the time, was using google network analysis tools to diagnose internal issues and 3rd party freeware and reg hacks to fix the issues.

I Also used a Ping Hack i found at utube, Just type "Ping Hack" into utube search.

If you go down this path I caution you

BACKUP your reg before ANY and ALL edits, a corrupt reg can cripple your OS

READ all documentation with any freeware utilities you D/L to assist in network optimisation

If you dont understand what the freeware is about to do, DONT use it, use the web to become familiar with the process's

And i have an UNTESTED suggestion

Use a VM to run the server in a box, Plenty of good and free VM's out there. If you use a linux VM port, there is usually a large support community. I don't see why a VM wouldn't work Ive played Freelancer in a VM on Win7 Desktops many times to get away with all the issues that pop up.