A lot of people have been fooled into thinking they need to replace their hardware every year or so. That's just nonsense. There are people that think you need a 3000+ ghz processor to run a decent CS 1.6 server, never mind anything Source, when hlds will run quite comfortably on any PIII 600, and probably will run on processors older than that.
I was able to run a 16 person DOD: Source server on an Athlon 1200 on a home cable connection. It wasn't a competition calibre server, but there were no issues with hit detection or lag that I could detect. The newest hardware, both for servers and for clients, is usually a couple of years ahead of the latest software, and Source is now around three years old, while HL1 is around ten years old (not sure about the dates on that). In fact, if you are running the absolute newest available hardware, you are probably going to have more problems with software than you will have if you are running hardware that has been on the market for a couple of years. You could easily run a competition level 1000fps Source server on good hardware that is four years old, and the same level for hlds on hardware that is much older than that - that's not taking into account that the benefits of running a 1000fps server are probably questionable at best. Drek Kevin Karan wrote:
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I want to add to this I installed win on this box (a P3) for the hell of it and its working peechy. Infact with a FULL server of 24 players I sit at 15%CPU. Im sick of hearing people tell me this hardware needs to be retired when I CAN RUN 4 FULL TF2 SERVERS ON THIS MACHINE. On 10/7/07, cj_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
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