I heard that some games require you to actually boot up the game to
run a dedicated server.  Therefore, the server needs to run Windows XP
and have a powerful enough GPU to run the game.  Who's smart idea was
that!?

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Tom Leighton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Don't forget the IC tournament, with its 250 player licensed server from
> Nova :P
>
> That was some epic mayhem right there.
>
> Rick Payton wrote:
>> I know people who ran (still run maybe?) graphics cards in their servers
>> - the poor souls who wanted to rent / run a Joint Operations server with
>> it's 150 player mayhem. Fun game, but stupid server requirment.
>>
>> -mauirixxx
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew
>> Gottlieb
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:29 AM
>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Any benefits with a graphics card?
>>
>> I agree.  Lets get multi-core support rolling before we even think about
>> GPU support.  After all, who the hell has a GPU in their server?
>>
>> Unless you're one of the "cool kids" who have 4 280s in SLI on their
>> server...
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:48 AM, 1nsane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Valve is so good at supporting multiple cores and all of the other new
>>>
>>
>>
>>> CPU enhancements... I'm sure they will start supporting nvidia's
>>> proprietary architecture in no time!
>>>
>>> OH WAIT
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Yaakov Smith <[email protected]>
>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Look at CUDA benchmarks.(
>>>> http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3374)<
>>>> http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3374>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Jake E <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> But just how fast is that...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Yaakov Smith <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Thought so. Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 4:07 PM
>>>>>> To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Any benefits with a graphics card?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just uses the cpu/ram/hdd :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yaakov
>>>>>> Smith
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 3:37 PM
>>>>>> To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
>>>>>> Subject: [hlds] Any benefits with a graphics card?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does SrcDS make any use of a graphics card, or does it just use
>>>>>> the processor?
>>>>>>
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