R8 coming soon?

[marrr]

I saw this posted on another site I visit.

DICE have released Server Update R8 with the following changes:

- Crashfixes.

- RCON bugfixes; banList.add can now ban on player name.

- Fixes for team & squad handling, both during and between rounds.

[zaNe]

Heh! Great minds!

I just posted this too But it seems you beat me to it! I shall delete my post!

[Edge100x]

We're currently evaluating R8. Other RSPs are reporting significantly increased crashing behavior with it.

[MyOdessa]

Screw it, I'll take R7 with less crashes and bugs, then R8 with crashes.

When is R9 out. lol.

[globel]

thanks NFO for beta testing server files for EA so we don't have to =)

[Forbestoo]

R8 seems to be worse for us than R7. Is anyone rolling back to R7? Is R9 on the horizon?

We have increased crashing and a tougher time filling our server since R8 it seems

[Daslol]

R8 screwed me.

I went from four stable servers to four crashing every few hours servers.

Now my four 24/7 full servers went to two full, and two that haven't seen a player since R8.

[zaNe]

Ive had only 2 crashes on R8 on our Conquest server in the past 3 days. Not too bad! It's been hard to get her going, but once shes going shes going hard!

Our Rush server exploded or something, but ever since John fixed it up, shes been full, other than thorughout the middle of the night, which I dont expect too much traffic anyway.

R8 is a HUGE step forward from R7 in my books. With every patch comes more and more stability. Hopefully by the time we hit R9 or R10, we'll be fully functional with Reserved Slots and server queues! One can hope!

[nutz]

do we know if the server crashing when kicking/banning/mapchange is fixed then?

dont have a link but i swear in reading the forums i saw this wasn't working right but thats probably been a week or so?

[zaNe]

Kicking had a bug where if no reason was defined, it would crash the server. I think John fixed the admin daemon to make it provide a default reason. I think also that DICE has fixed this. I use the kickPlayer command frequently enough to verify that it works. I've also banned a few players without having it crash.

I'm not 100% sure on map change crashes. I think they still occur, but they seem to be a lot more rare then they were a week ago. Again, I cant confirm that they are still there or not, I dont know why exactly the servers are crashing, but there are still very few crashes that DICE has to work out, which Im sure they are doing!

[Dr.Tek]

R8 screwed me.

I went from four stable servers to four crashing every few hours servers.

The same thing is happening to me and it's really starting to affect our overall traffic to the servers. I wish there was an option to 'elect' to update to the latest patch.

[zaNe]

R8 screwed me.

I went from four stable servers to four crashing every few hours servers.

The same thing is happening to me and it's really starting to affect our overall traffic to the servers. I wish there was an option to 'elect' to update to the latest patch.

I'm sure DICE/EA would not want a bunch of different version on different servers. There are plenty ways to gain traffic! Read around the forums here.

I came up with the whole "set your max players" idea - and like within a few hours, John threw together a script to automate this process! Try it out, it's worked wonders for hundreds of people across multiple GSPs, so I don't see why it wouldnt work for you!

[globel]

i think its more like EA just shuffled around the quick match system it apears servers that use to be full are now empty and older empty servers are now full. When you in the quick match system your server will fill so quick it will make your head spin... i had over 200 connections on my 64 player server you could see them all using procon.

[Dr.Tek]

R8 screwed me.

I went from four stable servers to four crashing every few hours servers.

The same thing is happening to me and it's really starting to affect our overall traffic to the servers. I wish there was an option to 'elect' to update to the latest patch.

I'm sure DICE/EA would not want a bunch of different version on different servers. There are plenty ways to gain traffic! Read around the forums here.

We don't need help gaining traffic on our servers, of the (4) they all have a lot of traffic due to our reputation. But when players are constantly disconnected due to server crashes they tend to shy away from that server (especially on high ticket CQ configs).

We had far less issues with R7 compared to R8.

[//RS Maverick]

My non-dedicated server running R8 seems to cap out at 10 players with the auto-player limit adjustment setting on. Even after switching it off with 10/32 showing in battlelog every person that tries to join experiences a black loading screen with a blinking cursor. We had many people from different areas on north america try to join when reading at 10.... not one could get past the black screen.

I caught onto this as I minimized my game and saw 12/14 13/14 14/14 constantly... but only 10 ever showed up in the server.

All my hard earned traffic now thinks my server is screwed .