If you have seen how bots behave on CS Source, they dont always do what you expected them to do. Lets say you play alone against 20 bots with knives only coming at you, they usually take the same route depending where player goes and try to surround him. Ok, CPU is running fine at 60% only and tickrate is stable. Now, add 3 more humans taking different route. Bots go bonkers and need to think more. CPU usage rises. Tickrate goes unstable when CPU reaches near to its peak on round start.
If we think about same scenario on L4D and remember that these zombie bots keep coming and coming, and compare this to 24 slot TF2 - we have higher CPU load on server running L4D. I doubt that you can make advanced, smart AI without using a lot of CPU in multiplayer so i wouldnt think that comparison for 8vs8 is enough. My personal guess is more like 24 slots TF2 uses the same mount of CPU than L4D with 4 players which play good (more zombies and action). This also makes me wonder, will people run L4D server to entertain 4-8 people (4 human+4 zombies) if you could entertain even more people with lets say TF2 or any other multiplayer game. People who like to rent a server, the cost is pretty high since usually companies that rent servers have more than 1 servers running on same core. Im guessing since there are bots involved, only 1 server can be ran on single core. -ics Anthal kirjoitti: > If I had to guess, I'd say they are comparing an 8 to an 8. > > I'm hoping that our dual core 2.8ghz server with 2gb of ram is enough to > run 2 servers (one per core). It runs a 24 slot TF2 server fine. > > Ronny Schedel wrote: > >> Could you please give some more details? >> >> 1. As far as I know there will be 4 real players and alot of AI. Is the >> server a 4 slot server or can we specify how much games can be played on one >> server, like 20 slots with 5 games? >> >> 2. When you say the L4D cpu usage is much higher than a TF2 server, do you >> compare the CPU usage of a 4 slot L4D vs. 24 slots TF2, or do you compare >> 24 slots L4D vs. 24 slots TF2? >> >> Best regards >> >> Ronny >> >> >> >> >>> We'll be releasing the Left 4 Dead dedicated server files prior to the >>> Left 4 Dead demo being released. More details will be sent to the mailing >>> lists when we have them. >>> >>> There are two things to keep in mind regarding running a Left 4 Dead >>> server: >>> >>> 1) The CPU load for the Left 4 Dead server will be higher than you're used >>> to for games like TF2. Left 4 Dead has a bunch of A.I. for the zombies, >>> etc., that games like TF2 don't have. >>> >>> 2) Left 4 Dead uses a new matchmaking system we're developing. We'll be >>> working with the server admin community to make sure the new system >>> operates as smoothly as possible. More details on this later. >>> >>> -Eric >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
