Newbie Spellweaver
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1. It is a working client + Server. Bugs wise I have found only a couple of things that are off. The client is not a perfect match as far as its 'PAZ files go, but does run just fine.
2. The hardware resources are heavy. It is a commercial server where the publishers who saw cost of hardware as an investment to repaid within a couple months. I would not even attempt to run this in 32Gb memory. If you insist on doing so, you will need to create a paging file at least 250GB in size on a very fast m.2 nvme SSD drive.
3. not working - Central Market (does not work in Nova either). The client needs to be completely synced with the server. Unlike Nova, this one is very difficult, if not impossible to do the required PAZ file update due to character codepage problems in both the filenames and file contents. These are the only 2 issues I have seen. With the nova client I was able to do this, but not with Corsair.
Quirks from my experience running this server in a Hyper-V VM:
A) It needs a LOT of memory to run smooth. I run it in 196GB memory with a 200GB paging file. Don't expect any kind of smoothness in your 32GB of memory. Do not expect to run this server in anything less than a 512gb - 1tb drive or partition.
B) Multiple Network Adapters. In my setup I have 3 network adapters (5GB & 1GB Wired & Wireless 6 adapters) it does not run as unless you allocate a network adapter for its dedicated use. If the client and the server attach through the same IP and MAC address, the client will not connect to the server.
C) The server does not run on localhost. It requires the network IP address which cannot be 127.0.0.1 or localhost which is encoded in the main server spreadsheet. It is more than happy to use the MS SQL server at (local) for the server name.
D) The server setup is very similar to Nova's setup, You can use the same instructions to set up.
E) The server processes (Auth, Manager and Field) do not echo their logs to the console windows. Not sure why this is so. You need a resource sharing text editor to read live logs. You can read and decode (from json) log files with the BDOLogViewer tool I released earlier in the releases forum.
Thank you for the clear response! I understand that this package isn't going to be possible to run with my desktop. Going by the post the OP made in this thread, I assume this Nova one is possible to run with 32GB RAM?
https://forum.ragezone.com/f1000/vm-bdo-3205-nova-server-1205533/