My two cents: I've heard community complaints about low FPS on frontier as well. ----------------------- Jonah Hirsch
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Saint K. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We host our own equipment in a datacenter connected to the AMS-IX. As said, > we have no performance issues with any of the other maps, or games we host. > It's just isolated to frontier. > > The general replies however do suggest it's not a map problem, which makes > me wonder what causes it. > > Cheers, > > Saint K. > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Eli Witt [ > [email protected]] > Sent: 09 March 2011 16:06 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] pl_frontier > > We've run frontier on our servers for over a year before it went official, > the only performance complaints seem to come from those with underpowered > PC's. No one with any sort of decent hardware has ever complained about the > map, and we have a fairly large community. It's also a much larger map than > most, so lower performance is to be expected, you're not going to get the > same FPS as you do in achievement_idle as pl_frontier. > > The get stuck bugs are mostly because of the cart, and there's nothing to > be > done about that. > > Who is your server host? It wouldn't be outside the purview of possibility > that you've got a crappy server host with underpowered equipment or > overloaded boxes either. > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM, ics <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You should have seen previous versions of Frontier before going official. > > We have had this particular map on our custom map servers over a year and > it > > indeed was changed here and there before going official. Generally it has > > lower framerate than most of the maps on some parts of it. Especially low > > where the train starts going upward to the hill. Fact is, it cannot be > > improved more than it has been from it's previous state (before official) > > without doing complete overhaul of the map. > > > > What comes to server performance, it takes roughly same amount of CPU > than > > Hydro, well over most official TF2 maps. > > > > For bugs, there are couple of spots where you can get stuck. Either the > > cart blocks you or you go into some spot yourself and cannot get off no > > matter what you do (except die). > > > > -ics > > > > 9.3.2011 15:56, Emil Larsson kirjoitti: > > > > It's one of the heavier maps in the game leading to major loads both > >> client > >> and server side, infact i think the map was heavily optimized before it > >> went > >> official. > >> > >> You might want to check the various server rate settings and check if > >> players are using right network settings too. pl_frontier have high > >> network > >> usage last I checked compared to other TF2 maps. > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Saint K.<[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >>> > >>> Not running anything special accept for the quite default stuff as > >>> Sourcemod for server administration. > >>> > >>> We don't experience any issues with any of the other maps, and server > >>> performance is checking out good as well. Rates etc are configured > >>> properly > >>> too. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Saint K. > >>> ________________________________________ > >>> From: [email protected] [ > >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of frostschutz [ > >>> [email protected]] > >>> Sent: 09 March 2011 14:45 > >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > >>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] pl_frontier > >>> > >>> Ask the players to provide net_graph screenshots, maybe there's > >>> something obviously wrong with the server (e.g. too low rates). > >>> > >>> Are you running any mods? Source TV? > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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

