You can duplicate the effect of the simplest booster (the kind I was describing) by running media player in the background; its effect is to make the default timer the high-precision multimedia one as opposed to the coarser-grained standard one. The srcds server on windows doesn't (or didn't?) seem to specify and leaves it up to windows; by running those programs, this made the server use the higher-precision timer, which meant that higher fps were achievable since with the default timer the server was "oversleeping" due to rounding.
It didn't change the behaviour of the timer or make it sleep for a deliberately smaller amount of time. Even if there's no reason to try to get a higher fps reported, might it not be a good idea to make the srcds server use the higher precision timer by default anyway? > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hlds- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Henry Goffin > Sent: 17 October 2011 21:12 > To: <[email protected]>; Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds] Max FPS > > We rely on a stable OS timer, but we don't rely on CPU cycle counts or > directly query the hardware clock. I don't know if that answers your > question; I'm not familiar with these setups. We trust that when the OS > gives us a high res timer value, that it is correct. I believe that > modern Windows versions compensate for clock speed changes > automatically. But please report if you think that you are having > issues related to variable clock speed. > > > > On Oct 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, "Brandon R. Miller" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hmm, well that's no good. What about programs or bios settings that > cause the high resolution timer to be lower than expected? > > > > Unreal 3 engine does this > > COD engine does this > > Multiple other engines do this as well > > > > Also I believe that even Windows 2008 with HPET enabled in the bios > will have the same effect. Are srcds servers going to run badly if HPET > is enabled or other softwares are installed that cause the high > resolution timer to be 0.997ms? > > > > - Bran > > > > On 10/17/2011 1:44 PM, Henry Goffin wrote: > >> Oh. I kind of assumed that people wouldn't still be running those > "FPS boost" hacks now. I'm sure that they interact terribly with the > new timing code. Please get rid of those. We probably should have > called that out in the update notice. > >> > >> On Oct 17, 2011, at 11:21 AM, > "[email protected]"<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> This maybe useful to some people. > >>> > >>> I was running higher FPS servers (500 fps) 0n my win 2008R2 server > with sourcefpsbooster running. After the update I noticed lots of lag > but once I disabled the fps booster the lag went away. As there is no > need for it when the tick/fps is locked at 66. So maybe that will help > some of you. I personally now can't tell a difference. > >>> > >>> > >>> -----Original message----- > >>> From: Dominik Friedrichs [email protected] > >>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:22:06 -0400 > >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Max FPS > >>> > >>>> I too couldn't care less about the raging nerds who try to squeeze > the > >>>> last bit of performance out of their game, even if it gives them > an > >>>> unfair advantage over the majority of other players. The game > should be > >>>> fun and fair for everyone. Believe it or not, I'm still playing > with a > >>>> PC dated 2005 and my client FPS drop below 20 quite often in TF2. > I > >>>> highly doubt that anyone would notice any difference in server FPS > >>>> playing from such a machine, and I'm quite happy that Valve levels > the > >>>> playing field in this regard. If - for some people - the in-game > >>>> experience isn't smooth enough, I recommend getting a life. > >>>> > >>>> On 2011/10/17 16:54, Drogen Viech wrote: > >>>>> Just one thing - keep going valve, i really appreciate the > changes you > >>>>> guys are doing regarding fps and tickrate! I might even start > playing > >>>>> css again because of this :) > >>>>> (Please don't start flaming me for spamming your inboxes, i'm > just > >>>>> trying to give valve a heads up instead of raging about locked > server > >>>>> side fps sucks :( > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
