A little guide I made for another game, but after a few changes it still works with Bed Companion 2 Server This will allow you to run 24/7 server on your headless (command line only) Linux. If you are running it on a system with a graphical desktop environment, you don't need to install Xvfb or x11vnc and you can skip steps 4 through 7.

REQUIREMENTS

On your remote server:
Server files - if you don't have them, ask around. We won't provide them to you.
libgl1-mesa-dev - Mesa OpenGL libraries
WINE - preferably newest version you can get
Xvfb - framebuffer emulator. This utility will allow you to run GUI applications on your headless server.
x11vnc - VNC server. Thanks to this utility, you will be able to interact with GUI applications on your remote server using a VNC client.
winetricks - required to easily download and install some required libraries


On your local machine:
VNC client. On Linux you can use gvncviever, on Windows tightvnc.


Setting up server

1. Download server files and extract them:

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wget <link to server files>
unrar x BFBC2_Server_R32_Full.rar

Then go to your extracted directory:

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cd BFBC2_Server_R32_Full

2. Make sure you have the lastest server hook (dinput8.dll) in your game/server directory. Look on the forums or ask on #emulatornexus IRC channel.


3. Install dinput8:

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winetricks dinput8

Alternatively, you can rename dinput8.dll to xinput1_3.dll


4. Start Xvfb

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Xvfb :1 -screen 0 800x600x16 &

5. If it's the first time you are running the VNC server you need to generate a new password:

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x11vnc -storepasswd

6. Now you can start your VNC server

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x11vnc -display :1  -bg -forever -rfbauth ~/.vnc/passwd

7. Set your DISPLAY environment variable

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export DISPLAY=:1

8. Conect to your VNC server and install Visual C++ runtime libraries:

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winetricks vcrun2005
winetricks vcrun2008
winetricks vcrun2010


9. Modify your server options in /Instance/ServerOptions.ini
MAKE SURE TO CHANGE YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD!


10. And finally, start your server

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wine Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe -serverInstancePath "Instance/" -mapPack2Enabled 1 -port 19567 -timeStampLogNames -region OC -heartBeatInterval 20000

Known problems

1. The server cannot be normally shut down once started, so it's best to run it in a screen session. When you want to shut it down, just kill its process:

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kill -9 `ps x | grep Frost | grep -v grep | gawk '{print $1}'`

2. The server crashes sometimes. You can verify wether it's working or not by checking your VNC server.

Alternatively, you can make your server not display any errors, by adding the following parameteers to your startup command:

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-displayErrors 0 -displayAsserts 0

If you do this, remember, that this doesn't prevent the errors from happening. It just hides them. Keep that in mind, especially if you run into some problems with your server.


3. Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires special permissions.

This happens if you are running the server on a limited (non-root) account. To solve it, type:

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sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi /usr/bin/wine-preloader

More information can be found here:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-acdec64 ... 02576e6a63

Thanks to Vaques for letting me know about it!


Useful links

Getting procon to work 24/7 on Linux
Configuring your server
Where to look for server files
Where to find the latest hook (Download section)

Hello,

How much free memory does the server need to run the bc2 server files please?

lycanwrath wrote:Hello,

How much free memory does the server need to run the BeeCeeToo server files please?

The server (without players) needs about 100 MB Ram while idling.

A server with 12 players needs about 200 MB Ram.

I am sticking this post as it has proven to be helpful to many people, but please explain in more detail on how to install the prerequisites such as winetricks.

Thanks,
Imposter

For myself I was running the server in a screen session like this:

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screen -AmdS $SCREEN wine Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe -port $IP:$PORT -numGameClientSlots $SLOTS -serverInstancePath "Z:$INSTANCEDIR" -displayErrors 0 -displayAsserts 0 -crashDumpAsserts 0 -heartBeatInterval 20000 -plasmaServerLog 0 -crashDumpErrors 1 -timeStampLogNames -mapPack2Enabled 1 -region EU

You can kill it by closing the screen:

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screen -dr $SCREEN -X quit

Imposter wrote:I am sticking this post as it has proven to be helpful to many people, but please explain in more detail on how to install the prerequisites such as winetricks.

Aye, I will write something up later. Although this will probably vary depending on the distro you use.

hi,
I'm sorry for my English first bad. Explained above, we need to do to run the game after installing a single thing on the following library.

apt-get install libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev

My distro is ubuntu server 12,10 i386

EAKGAMING COM

Hi,
is it possible with this Linux-Server to host a BF:BC2 Game in a LAN with a Internet-Connection to verify the account with the EA-Servers? It would be great if you could play BF: BC2 on Lan-Parties with that.

Bobbobbsen wrote:Hi,
is it possible with this Linux-Server to host a BF:BC2 Game in a LAN with a Internet-Connection to verify the account with the EA-Servers? It would be great if you could play BF: BC2 on Lan-Parties with that.

LAN will probably be implemented in a future revision.

Hello,
got a popup with "Unable to find a volume for file extraction" when executing "winetricks vcrun2008". Same for the 2010.
Running on dedicated Debian

Also, got this when trying to start the server (without all lib ?):

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err:module:import_dll Library d3dx10_42.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\root\\BFBC2\\BFBC2_Server_R30_Full\\Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP100.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\root\\BFBC2\\BFBC2_Server_R30_Full\\XINPUT1_3.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR100.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\root\\BFBC2\\BFBC2_Server_R30_Full\\XINPUT1_3.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library XINPUT1_3.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\root\\BFBC2\\BFBC2_Server_R30_Full\\Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library d3d9.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\root\\BFBC2\\BFBC2_Server_R30_Full\\Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\root\\BFBC2\\BFBC2_Server_R30_Full\\Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe" failed, status c0000135


Thanks if you can help