I have a dual xeon 3ghz, which runs 6 l4d's forked. if its really busy, it could hold up to 3/4 vs games with 8 players, and the others filled with 4.. at that point i see it sometimes hit 0% idle, maybe you could do more and i have a bad setup.. but anything more then that will show ingame..
So say around 35 people are using it then at some point (l4d).. i do think that l4d is less unhappy when the pc is at 100% cpu compared to tf2 where if that happens everybody is affected, since the director might be busy on 1 instance and the other instance is just walking around.. Also got scsi 10krpm 3x raid 5.. So i think its wise to get some more power.. also keep in your mind that even if you find a system that just barely reaches what you want (say tf2 24 people and some l4d) in the end when the custom maps for l4d will become more common and tf2 brings out a few new updates for sniper/soldier/demo etc it will need additional power (at least so far its only growing) and then your in the same boat again. On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:12:31 -0600, Logan Rogers-Follis <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure of the exact hardware needs (RAM/CPU) for TF2 and L4D. I > currently have a L4D server running on a Windows XP Pro w/ 512MB RAM and > a P4 2.0Ghz, which runs good until we get more than 6 real players on VS > then it tends to lag a bit. So I am looking to buy/build a server that > will run the game better and which I can also run a TF2 server on. > > What kind of specs should I be looking for when building/buying a server > that I want to have Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 running on. I plan > to load the machine with CentOS 5.x and virtualize it using Xen so I can > have one instance of CentOS running Team Fortress 2 with it's own > resources and then another running 1-3 instances of Left 4 Dead (ie. 1 > VS and 1-2 Survival/Campaign). > > I was looking at a machine with the following specs, would it be enough > to provide smooth gaming for the above setup? > > Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz CPU > 4GB DDR PC2100 ECC RAM > 4x 36GB SCSI 10K RPM Hard Drives (RAID 1) > > I'm thinking and hoping it will. > > Thanks, > Logan Rogers-Follis > > _______________________________________________ > 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
