Is this trolling or just a naive question? :) The server tickrate controls how many times per second the server updates the world model and send data to players. higher tickrate means higher precision in the simulation, lower ping, and more resilience to packet loss (smaller time interval that the clients have to interpolate in case something goes wrong). Tick 100 servers run noticeably better than tick 66 servers and blow away tick 33 servers. The server fps controls how many times per second the server checks if it should run a tick. Running the server at exactly fps == tickrate for orangebox is great, but if you can't guarantee that you should run at at least 2x the tickrate (running at 66 fps with a 66 tickrate means that that the system will wake srcds every 15.15ms and compute a tick every time; running at 67 fps means that the system wakes srcds every 14.92ms and compute a tick most of the times, and then wait the 67th frame (other 14.92ms) doing nothing) Client tickrate should match the server tickrate, and client fps should be higher or matching client tickrate. Client fps are unrelated to server fps, and may or may not be bound to the monitor refresh rate. this is my (simplified) understanding of how the orangebox works, i'm not claiming it is 100% exact but at least it makes sense :P
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Drogen Viech <[email protected]>wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo > > 2011/3/30 realdreams <[email protected]>: > > I am curious how does fps above 60 help in the game. Most monitors are > > 60Hz. How will higher fps affect gameplay on a 60Hz monitor? > > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Claudio Beretta > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> actually on orangebox you should have the server fps match exactly the > >> tickrate, or at least 2X times the tickrate to avoid aliasing effects > >> (shannon theorem). > >> The OP stated it was dropping to 60 fps, which is below the (standard) > >> tickrate. > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Christoffer Pedersen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Keep your fps at 67-70. Higher fps is unecessary and waste of CPU. > >>> > >>> /Chris > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
