6.2 Server Setup

[stefann]

Can anyone help me setup a EQEMU 6.2(final? release) server from scratch, a step by step guide would help. Thanks :p
Stefann <- Is a nub

[Draco_Panther]

We do not have a current Tut for 6.2 yet. You will have to just sit and wait with the rest of us that need help setting 6.2 up.

[stefann]

OK, before the dev team screws with anything else a new setup guide should be made a priority. My big problem is, the one server that runs 6.2 AND I can login to, is PEQ, and only is using the first two expansions which REALLY irritates me so I wanted to make my own server to screw around until others upgrade to 6.2(Free DoN, YEAH). I still like PEQ but if I wanted only the first two expansions, I'd play live(got the freebie software)

EDIT:
Also on PEQ I've noticed that the guards don't attack mobs. Are they missing the map files for the server, or is the agro in the DB set wrong. FINALLY this gives me an idea, why dosn't someone make a PHP/VB.NET/C#(Don't care which) application to simplify the process of working with the database. A VB.NET/C# program would be preffered a they can be compiled by MONO and run cross-platform, yes a window$ .net program CAN run on linux.

[Belfedia]

Acces to new extension is not a eqemu software limit, if you make a 0.6.2 server, you don't have Pop, loy, God, Oow,Don, etc... You must make your database for that, or waiting one who share his work...
Guide for 0.6.2 come, malignus work on it

[stefann]

I am curious, does anyone have a rough estimate on the CPU and RAM it takes to run EQEMU? Really I'm wondering what is used on a single zone server(world server probably doesn't use much up, right?) Thanks a lot

[thatfatkid]

It's pretty minimal, in the past I was able to run the server and play on it on the same computer.

[stefann]

The PC I would use for a 'server' is a 600MhZ Celery(Intel Celeorn) P.O.S with about 192MB of ram, the play computer meets specs for the game, but they will also have to share the same 3MB/384KB UP/DOWN connection, and the 'server' is also running Windows Server 2000 in Domain Controller mode so it has to take care of my E-mail, and network logins(average CPU load with nothing else loaded is 1-10%) in other words, can the celery run EQEMU with that much clock time left and RAM???

[Pascall]

"Yes" - but I'd highly suggest you add more memory if you can, databases like to eat memory more than anything else and excessive disk swapping will only bog the system down.

[stefann]

Yeah I know that sadly, makes it hard to run a web server on a PC like that with PHP as MySQL is PHP's best friend :P