How about you rent your own server then it should never be an issue and you want have to switch servers
Sent from my iPhone On 20/01/2009, at 11:26 AM, "Andrew Armstrong" <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the CPU Load (%) icon (like ping) in some games was always > pretty > neat. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nephyrin Zey > Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:20 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Server Quality Control > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
