Upgraded to R6

[kraze]

2 client side patches? i haven't noticed a single one.

Maybe it was just one..I know there was a day one patch for clients.

[Edge100x]

zaNe, from the changelog, it sounds like DICE has mainly focuses on the mapchange crashes so far. We've sent them other crash logs and dumps, as well, and I hope that they take a look at these next.

[VAPOR]

No crashes here....woot!

[kraze]

No crashes here....woot!

Awesome

[Red87]

Just had a crash at 03:30:13 AM EST on red09.game.nfoservers.com - I wasn't around at the time but looking at ProCon events log it seemed to be at the end of the match/beginning of new game, which is the only time I've ever had a server crash. Here's hoping it isn't as frequent with R6, but it still seems to occur.

[Red87]

Just had a crash at 03:30:13 AM EST on red09.game.nfoservers.com - I wasn't around at the time but looking at ProCon events log it seemed to be at the end of the match/beginning of new game, which is the only time I've ever had a server crash. Here's hoping it isn't as frequent with R6, but it still seems to occur.

Edit - Disregard above; I looked through my emails and on the event log page and I see the update to R6 was applied @ 03:30 EST to this server, so obviously it went down. Helps to fully look into things before I make a post. Looking forward to see how stable R6 is.

Also, am I just not seeing an edit post button?

[VAPOR]

You can only edit your post for 5 minutes after your initial posting...then you cannot.

Q. Why do we have a time limit on editing?

[Edge100x]

Red87, the application of R6 would have been because of the downtime and not the other way around. Our update system runs constantly and picks up downed servers immediately.

As a side note, around a third of our servers were still running R5 when EA shut down their Blaze back-end at around 2am PDT this morning. Now all are running R6.

dtoxghost, because of previous abuse from users.

[MyOdessa]

My 64 man Conquest server still had crashes with R6, but less frequent. In fact I removed Khark (?) Island map, because I had more lag and crashes on that map. I am running just two maps Caspian/Firestorm. They both seem to be more stable for now. My 32 man Rush, hardly crash at all under R5 and R6, running just one Metro map.

[Spyderspartan]

Our server ran most of the day today without crashing. R6 was applied last night. It just crashed about 10 minutes ago. It does seem to be running longer without crashing though.

[marrr]

One of my R6 servers crashed about an hour ago.

[TimSad]

And now that I change my server back to Conquest after this R6 update to give it a try, it just isn't picking up again. We've got a few people in and seeding it and it's just not budging unlike when it was Rush. Should I try that whole requesting a new GUID bit and see if that does anything?

[.Strafe]

Should I try that whole requesting a new GUID bit and see if that does anything?

its hit and miss Tim, we have tried resetting our GUID many, many times already and we still cant get QM feeds ...

i understand EA is telling everyone that its random, blah blah blah ... but if you look at gametracker you can see the top 50 ranked servers that are tied to gametracker. the ones with the "join" button are "gameservers" customers ... most clans with servers and websites run gametracker to show their servers. so how is it that 37 out of the top 50 are all from one company?

http://www.gametracker.com/search/bf3/? ... =50#search

I've had servers with GS, i think they are a bottom rung provider, yet they seem to get into these alignments (see the GS only servers for COD) that screw the majority of the community. perhaps there is a little backroom handshake deal between GS and DICE/EA to make sure their servers are top ranked, or whatever ...

i dont know, it might just be conspiracy theory on my part, but dammit I'm tired of sitting on my server waiting and hoping for pubbers to join, only to watch other servers stay pegged at 64/64

/rant

[zaNe]

GameTracker is owned by GameServers. Of course their servers are top "ranked" its their own ranking system! Honestly you can't complain about a server "rank" when its being provided by a company that is a GSP. Perhaps if it were a 3rd party hosted ranking structure, than perhaps you could use it as a legible thing to boast about. But when its hosted by them, its lame!

Also, all GS servers are automatically tracked, whereas other GSP renters have to "add" their server to the list. Many players do not know about Gametracker. (When I say players, I mean ppl who are just general players, not renters/clans)

[chodie]

After the R6 patch was applied we did have our longest uptime since launch, but the bbb.game.nfoservers.com server crashed on nosehair canals midmap about 10 minutes ago.