CONOSLE: Warning: You are playing on a Single-Core server. Expect Lag Lollz
A rating system or something for servers maybe, but your whole idealized no-single-core (srcds is largely single threaded...) 2gig ram having thing sounds pretty snobby and ineffective at the same time. I run three lag free 32x TF2 servers on a 2.4GHz quad core with 4gigs of ram, and some old pentium 4 could run a single lag free L4D server pretty well. Network and configuration are usually vastly more important. I agree that on games with a server browser you can find and return to fun lag free servers, while outside of steam group servers l4d just throws you in there. One idea would be pushing steam group servers a lot more, IE have a 'hosted by' drop down that lets you pick steam groups, including ones you're not in but have played on before (assuming theirs arn't exclusive) or some such. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jake E <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > > My Friends and I usually team up on campaign servers, and usually it takes > 10-15 minutes to find a good dedicated server. The first one may lag, the > second one may "shut down", and the third one may lag also. I was just > wondering if we could have a form of server selecting or warning- i.e., > Valve adds something that says "CONOSLE: Warning: You are playing on a > Single-Core server. Expect Lag" when you join or maybe you could see the > specs of the dedicated server you are about to join. Like the lobby leader > sees "2.4 GHz Quad, 4000MB Ram. Accept? [YES] [NO]" Alternatively, there > could be something like HLDSupdatetool checks your specs and says "Please > upgrade your system to have at least a __._GHz Dual Core Processor before > running left4dead." I know it's a long shot, but I think the Left 4 Dead > community deserves to play on lag-free servers. > > Well also if you guys could do me a favor, we are putting up a CS:Source > server and are thinking of just buying a dedicated server for our CS:Source. > GMOD, and L4D, I know that the CPU usage of L4D is comparable to a 26 slot > TF2 server, how good a box do you think we would need for all three servers? > > Thanks, > Jake > _______________________________________________ > 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
