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I was reading up on your software that you developed (Intrafoundation.UDPClient) http://www.intrafoundation.com/udpclient.asp

And I was wondering if this will work with a game called Red Faction,
Its an older FPS game that is slowing down a great deal, and something like this might be its saving grace, it uses UDP on port 7755

Is there any way that I can get you to help me with testing it?
I have a rented Red Faction game server, and can host the game from home as well, if your interested in trying it out.
It would be great if we could get online stats for our server, as nothing like this is available for the game.
Please respond..

Kevin Richardson

That... was the the FPS where you were driving an armoured car part of the time? I believe I bought a copy of that from a bargin bin a few years back.

Anyway, basically, if I have the protocol specs for the game it`s fairly easy for me to make a script in ColdFusion, ASP or PHP. The hard part is finding/figuring out the structure of the UDP messages the original game programmers used. Don`t suppose you have any documentation? Or better yet, the source code? :) Have they released that yet?

--min

No this is a FPS where you go around shooting everyone, with pistols, sub machine guns, and blowing them up with C4, grenades, and rockets. http://www.redfaction.com/news.cfm
I need something that can be ran from my rented webserver, to talk to my rented gameserver, and display a webpage on the webserver, showing stats about the players, such as kills, deaths, games won, pings, etc. 1 problem is that I cant run any .exe files on the rented gameserver due to security reasons, I can upload files to it, but not .exes.
I dont really have any documentation as of right now, but i will look around. If you like I can send you a copy of the game, if its needed. It only costs about $10.00 at Walmart, if you can find it. I know its available online as well. Can you email me at hard_drive@quikboard.com
thanks.

http://www.redfaction.com/news.cfm

It would be nice to have something written in Cold Fusion, that I can use on my webserver, I can even archive it into a database there, if it would make it any easier.

I was thinking of something called Red Line it turns out. A little different.

Hmm. Generally I`m big into FPS`s, but I seemed to miss this somehow completely. I`ll look for a copy of it.

Anyway, ColdFusion and ASP don`t have built in general-purpose UDP or TCP support, so you`d need to register a COM on the webserver (either my UDPClient or TCPClient, depending on what the game uses). And so you`d need to get whoever you rent your server from to "regsvr32" them at the command-line. They may or may not care to do that -- the software has been completely open source from the start how. Fairly clean and easy fora web admin to follow. :)

PHP, btw, has built in support for UDP so nothing beyond the php script itself is required.

The scripts themselves are fairly trival to write in any web language (well, for me anyway).

But basically it all just comes down to finding out what the data structures it`s using for client/server communication look like. Without that there`s nothing you can really do.

--min

Well, I forwarded this to your email and directly asked the makers of Red Faction about the protocol, so.... now we wait.

Awesome thanks, Ill see if my web admin will register the com object for me, Im sure it wont be a problem, if it is, they support PhP, and I can use it instead. Matter of fact, I already have a MySql database setup, that can be used if needed. My preferance will be ColdFusion though.
I have wriitten a bulletin boaard in it here.
http://quikboard.com/forums/index.cfm
not finished totally, but close. I have access, MySql,MS Sql databases readily available for the data storage.

http://quikboard.com/forums/index.cfm