Nod, most professional teams would agree that very high FPS servers feel better. In the case of NFO and the other high-end GSPs, much of this may stem not from the peak FPS value but rather its stability, and its stability in turn stems from the fact that these servers are put on very low-load, highly tweaked machines and each generally gets its own CPU core. The higher FPS does theoretically help slightly as well, but not to a degree that many players would notice.
The OP here is referring to the GoldSrc engine, which only supports up to 1000fps and scales its tickrate along with the FPS. From 500fps to 1000fps, that means up to a 1ms latency difference in-game. The jump from 100fps to 1000fps is actually quite noticable here, both in terms of scoreboard latency and in terms of how the game plays. The jump from 100fps to 1000fps+ is less noticable for Source-based games because the tickrate stays locked at a maximum of 100hz. The actual hardware and bandwidth costs are the reason for the price premium on the higher-end servers -- they are very expensive to run well. I'd agree that for most clients, and especially for public servers, something like a constant 250fps is more than sufficient. From Valve's choice of 30fps/tick for L4D, it seems that it is in favor of even lower rates. -John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cc2iscooL" <[email protected]> To: "Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] FreeBSD FPS = HZ / 2 > But guize I need my 4000 FPS server from NuclearFallout at $5 a slot. > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:59 AM, AnAkIn . <[email protected]> wrote: > >> sys_ticrate is max 1000. >> >> That won't answer your question, but 500 FPS is fine. It's useless to >> have >> 1000 FPS. You just need it to never go below 100. >> >> 2009/5/17 lol37 <[email protected]> >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I use FreeBSD 7.2 with kern.hz = 1000, with linux_base emulator and >> > hlds >> > -pingboost 3 sys_ticrate 10000 >> > But i got only 500~fps >> > I tryed kern.hz = 2000 but i have quite huge cpu consumption like 30% >> > Any suggestion ? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > Cc2iscooL > Head Admin/Owner > http://www.cc2iscool.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
