FPS above tickrate have never given any better quality, before and after the OB update.
2010/11/15 Christoffer Pedersen <[email protected]> > Many providers today, are selling servers with high FPS to gain customers. > I think it is one of the best sales tricks to get customers, as a service > provider. A time, there were a lot of talking about breaking the 1000 FPS > limit. A guy managed to do it, and suddenly, many providers began to sell > servers with 2000, 4000, yea up to about 10000FPS. Customers are mostly > dummies, so for them, higher fps results in a better server (which is > completely wrong). > > After the OB update, fps doesn't play any big role in the quality anymore. > I run all my servers with fps_max 70, and they run as good as they did > before the OB update with 1K fps. > > It would be nice to get the whole fps-stuff removed, and just get a 1:1 > scale as mentioned. > > - Christoffer > > Den 15/11/2010 kl. 14.09 skrev Crazy Canucks: > > > The mythology that has built up around server "fps" in the Half-Life > series is bigger than any explanation that Valve might offer now. It > doesn't matter what Valve says officially, game server service providers are > going to use the mythology to try to sell their services, and potential > clients are still going to accept whatever part of the mythology appeals to > them as fact. > > > > On 15/11/2010 7:37 AM, Björn Rohlén wrote: > >> Instead of hiding the server_fps, it would be better to explain it in > >> detail. > >> > >> -TheG > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Gary Stanley<[email protected] > >wrote: > >> > >>> I guess the new sales pitches are that when a server has FPS jitter > (from > >>> say, 100 to 150 or 66 to 90) that is bad and causes all kinds of > issues. > >>> > >>> Can valve PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remove FPS from rcon stats or do > something > >>> to prevent it's behavior from being altered? Or lock it at 1:1 so it > scales > >>> with the tickrate? > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > -- Best regards, AnAkIn, ------------- ESL EU TF2 Admin http://www.esl.eu/eu/tf2 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
