Laptops can do certain types of processing quite efficiently, but they are notoriously slow when it comes to disk I/O. For example, I can compile HL maps on my laptop (1.8GHz celeron) faster then on my 1.7GHz Pentium4. But anything that involves disk i/o, especially if the app starts to dip into the swap file, can be excruciatingly slow. With 256MB ram, you are probably dipping into the swap file enough to cause very slow map changes such as you have been experiencing. You can double your ram to 512MB and that will help quite a bit. Other then that, there might not be much you can do. A Celeron based laptop just isn't the best platform to run CS DS on.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Micha Vermeer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:32 AM Subject: [hlds] Slow map change > -- If you have already read this, I'm sorry, but I've sent this message with > a wrong subject line before, so I send it again... :] -- > > Hi all, > > I'm quite new in the field of setting up a dedicated server but I have just > one or 2 questions: > > The first question is about hardware requirements: > > I tried running a DS on my laptop which has a 2.4 GHz Intel Celeron in it > and 256 Mb memory. Running it is not the problem, but changing maps takes > for-ev-ver. > > It crunches away at 100% for a couple _minutes_ (like 2 or 3). > When I'm playing dust (as that's the default map it starts with) it doesn't > come much higher that 5%, although it spikes to about 50% for a split second > when the bomb goes off. When I switch to office and played a minute or two I > tried switch back to dust (which was much faster to load) and than back to > office again (hoping it would have cached something) it took a little less > time, but still an unacceptable 1.5 to 2 minutes (the pc (client) I play > with, loads the map within a few seconds (like normal when I play on inet) > after finally getting the details from my DS) > > I hope that makes a little sense :) > > I use the DS that came with my steam account. Would it be better if I tried > the HLDSupdatetool (spelling?)? What can I do to make those map changes > faster? > > Thank you SO much ;D > > DrBashir > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
