Dustin,
The serverbrowsers (both Steam and in-game) use the rate settings in
your Steam > settings > downloads
If the Steam download settings are set too fast for your router then you'll
get fewer servers in the listings and there will usually be big pauses.
The in-game ServerBrowser works a little slower then the Steam Serverbrowser
since it has to look at tags and things, so counter-intuitively slower is
better in the case where the Steam download rate is set too fast.
If you set the Steam Download Rate properly, both serverbrowsers will work
properly.
You must exit Steam and restart for the change to the rate setting to take
effect.
big catch:
If you change your rate settings in-game, it very nicely will ALSO change
your Steam download rate setting for you too, even if it's wrong.
You won't see the problem until you restart Steam or reboot your system.
I wrote an app that will prevent the Steam download rate from ever changing
(the settings is in the registry), you can give that a try.
http://qsextreme.com/SteamRate
Just set it and lock it, restart Steam if you changed the setting, and
minimize SteamRate to your tooltray.
All this tool does is look occasionally at the registry setting and if it's
different from the locked rate it will change it back.
qUiCkSiLvEr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Wyatt"
To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 9:08 AM
Subject: [hlds] Server browser shenanigans
> Ok, take a look at this pic:
>
> http://www.smackcentral.net/files/server_count.jpg
>
> I refreshed the desktop server browser and then immediately refreshed
> the in-game server browser. No matter how many times I do this, the
> in-game browser always returns many more servers than the desktop
> version.
>
> Why is this so?
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