Just to clarify on the .res files; they are not needed on the webserver, but are required to be on the gameserver.
I've had no issues either with using bzip2, infact my tool SourceRSC uses bzip2 to compress the files and I've had no complaints. I do know that some users were having a problem similar to you, and if they didn't switch to binary transfer mode before uploading the bz2 to their redirects via ftp it wouldn't work. Re-transfering the files with binary mode solved the problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Ottalini To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Fast DL server zipping I found using Bzip2 to compress maps and related content to not be compatible with Source games, the clients just never saw them. This was both Win32 and Linux servers referring to both Win32 and linux based webservers. I tested this extensively (but was a year or so ago). The only thing that worked was to let the Game Server compress the files to .ztmp, move the .ztmp files over to the web server and then rename the .ztmp extensions to .bz2 - make sure the extension is lower case on a linux based webserver. Step by step: ------------------- 1. run the map, 2. disable http downloading (sv_downloadurl "") 3. connect a client with none of the custom content 4. let it download and enter the map 5. copy everything that was compressed into .ztmp to the web server 6. rename all the .ztmp extensions on the web server to .bz2 7. then re-enable sv_downloadurl with your url and test again with a clean client to verify all the .bz2 files are downloaded from the web server .res file are never compressed by the server and only .res is accessed on the web server, but they are small. qUiCkSiLvEr ----- Original Message ----- From: "JDoc0512" To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Fast DL server zipping you can use bz2 to compress any file as long as you maintain the directory structure and I don't think you can use zip but why would you use it anyway when bz2 does the same thing by the way, you don't really have to compress sound files. bz2 reduces sizes of sound files only little bit --- On Tue, 9/9/08, Patrick Shelley wrote: From: Patrick Shelley Subject: [hlds] Fast DL server zipping To: "HLDS Mail List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 3:55 PM Can i bz2 everything in my fast dl server or just maps? can i zip models and sounds up and the client will get them ok? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
