Actually that part at the bottom is entirely wrong.

> The key reason to run higher FPS is the render time. At 1000FPS, the 
> server is rendering one frame every 1 millisecond (ms). This means 
> that the worst-case adder to the player ping is only 1ms, IE: the 
> player gets more accurate data and can get it more often.
>
> At 300FPS it's only 3ms which is perfectly acceptable, but at 100FPS 
> it's 10ms, which is a significant percentage of a 100 ping (10%). A 
> player with a 100 ping would actually be getting 110ms response time 
> from the server.
That is incorrect.  tickrate actually controls how much delay is added 
to ping time.  At 100 tickrate there will always be 10ms of ping added 
to the real DOS ping, regardless of how high the sys_tickrate/max_fps is 
so long as it is over 100.  This is becaues packets are going out 100 
times/second regardless of the server FPS.

The higher FPS setting may help accuracy still, but it does not affect 
ping as indicated on that page.  Really though how many pixels do you 
think a player moves if the server is clocking at 3ms frames vs 1 ms 
frames?  Maybe a couple pixels?  The inaccuracy of the guns themselves 
is way larger than any movement of the player in that timespan - I 
haven't calculated out the exact pixel difference but I think we can all 
agree it is pretty small amount in 2ms of time.  That's why going from 
333 to 1000 FPS is essentially pointless.  The only thing it might might 
matter for is sniper/deagle, but even the pro's don't have pixel level 
accuracy.


Gary Stanley wrote:
> At 08:02 PM 10/1/2008, Matthias Bleile wrote:
>   
>> Of course you get an answer.
>>
>> Right here ->
>> http://supportwiki.steampowered.com/wiki/Optimizing_a_Dedicated_Server
>> at the very bottom.
>>
>>     
>
> Really?
> http://supportwiki.steampowered.com/w/index.php?title=Optimizing_a_Dedicated_Server&action=history
>
> That page is user created, with valve supervising. It looks like some 
> users created the content. I don't see Alfred's name on the history, 
> nor anyone else that regulars the mailing lists that is from valve.
>
>
>
> Gary Stanley - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~gary
>
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>   Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. 
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