Sounds like your default clock is 15ms (some hardware is 10ms) There are various ways\tricks to go about changing this on a temporary basis, some implemented as serverside apps as this issues been brought up hundreds of times over the last five years here. hlbooster I think is the name of the most common plugin. If your just looking to play around with setting the rate of the mmtimer manually to specific values for testing your welcome to some test app(s) I threw together in a vb app a long time ago.
I think this link to the .zip should still work. http://girlpower.gpsites.org/downloads/hldsmmtimer.zip -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ilya Oboznyy Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [hlds] getting 1000fps on HLDS (about timers) -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Hello! Firstly i will start with my hardware and software: CPU: Dual Xeon 3200 FU Motherboard: Intel SE7520JR2ATAD2 OS: Windows XP pro SP2 (Also tried Windows 2003 server, x64 editions of XP/2003, even tried beta version of Vista/longhorn) but the problem is still the same. (something about NT core?) Program: HLDS ( Half Life Dedicated Server (using sys_ticrate 10000 (limit number of updates))). Drivers: I am using all latest drivers, system updates and firmware. First of all i dont really know how to explain it technicaly, the thing i will talk about is called Windows Multimedia timer / system timer / sleep time. I am not sure about correct name, but you will understand it from my future words, at least i hope so. By default this timer is running on Windows systems with 16ms delay, when im running my HLDS i am getting 64updates per second, and it addes around 16ms in ping, i noticed that if i start media player with paused movie in same time, i will get 512updates and around 3ms delay. That means that Windows Media player making this timer lower. But its only 512updates, while limit of HLDS is 1000. I was looking for a solution for a long time and finally found! I changed ACPI driver to ACPI PC and yes! I got 100fps by default (~5ms delay) and 1000fps and zero delay with Media Player on! It was working perfect on my home PC with only 1 CPU. On my server with Dual Xeon it was working also but... But it seems that only 1 CPU was working, ACPI PC isnt that good for Multiprossesor system, i lost a lot of hardware power with it, so i changed it bacl to ACPI multiprocessor and having only 512updates on my server atm. The question about my problem is: How can i get 5ms delay or 0 delay with media player on, without losing any hardware resources(With normal ACPI multiprocessor driver). I remember it was good in old windows 9x times. (Maybe its possible to change timer over regedit or over some services or get some specific driver). - on Linux systems this problem can be solved by changing kernel ticrate to 1000HZ. I hope to hear a solution for getting zero delay on Windows system. Thank you! -- _______________________________________________ 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
