srcds not using any cpu :P

[IBeMad]

I think I may have an... unusual problem. For some reason srcds isn't using any cpu. Even when it's full (4 people, alien swarm server), it still hardly uses any cpu, and people are lagging. Even I lag if I'm playing on the same computer as srcds is running on, with srcds set to Realtime priority and swarm.exe set to below normal. By lag I don't mean low fps, I mean myself and other people are skipping around the maps.

If I do rcon stats while the lagging is happening, it will say that srcds is using about 50% cpu usage. However Resource monitor says that srcds's average cpu usage is about 5%. The highest I've seen srcds's cpu usage was 8% I think.

I've got 8GB of RAM, Pagefile disabled
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.8 GHz
OS: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

Help?

[lol554]

You can never count on srcds when its measuring the CPU-usage. It's always lying. Your processor is at a very high clock speed (3.8GHz), so i would suspect the server configuration to be wrong. The other only problem would be your internet-connection.

[IBeMad]

(01-11-2011, 05:32 AM)lol554 Wrote:  Your processor is at a very high clock speed (3.8GHz), so i would suspect the server configuration to be wrong. The other only problem would be your internet-connection.

What do you mean by my server configuration being "wrong"? And how could I fix it?

And I don't think it's my internet connection because like I said, I have experienced this lag on the very computer that I'm hosting the server on.

[Zero1028]

The problem may very well be your internet, please can you do a speed test to accurately justify your internet speed.

Http://www.SpeedTest.net

Is a great website to test this, please test it and post the image for your results.

- Travis

[IBeMad]

As I said before, my internet isn't a problem ^_^

[Zero1028]

Really should of asked you this, is your lag FPS or Latency based?

If it is mainly FPS, the server configuration or more likely to be the problem.

If your buddies are experiencing high latency (high pings) than it is more likely an internet problem.

[IBeMad]

I do have high ping on my (comcast) internet connection... but (obviously) I'm playing on the same computer and I have a ping of 4 ms and I'm still skipping around... I don't think that it's internet if it affects me playing on the same computer the server is on.

And (at least I thought) isn't skipping around usually a sign of a slow computer? Which my computer obviously isn't?

[Mike]

It could be the minupdaterate.. Set it to 66 (never played alienswarm, but this worked for me (css)).

[IBeMad]

(01-11-2011, 08:25 AM)michael_sj123 Wrote:  It could be the minupdaterate.. Set it to 66 (never played alienswarm, but this worked for me (css)).

It's already set to 50 and the max set to 100 and it doesn't change the updaterates of the clients.

[lol554]

What about the sv_maxupdaterate?

[IBeMad]

... as said above, the sv_maxupdaterate is set to 100.

[lol554]

(01-12-2011, 10:05 AM)IBeMad Wrote:  ... as said above, the sv_maxupdaterate is set to 100.

Sorry, sometimes i turn blind for a while. Can you post your server.cfg?

[IBeMad]

Here it is

BTW the minupdaterate and maxupdaterate *do* change the rates of the clients, it's just that the sourcemod plugin getrates (or something of that sort) doesn't report them correctly.

[IBeMad]

bump...

Is there anything I can do to allow srcds to utilize more of my cpu?

[realchamp]

(01-14-2011, 03:27 AM)IBeMad Wrote:  bump...

Is there anything I can do to allow srcds to utilize more of my cpu?

I think it's either a bug that you do lag; too to compromize it with the other players and it's because of a slow internet connection.

If you want to test werether if it is your hardware, isn't it then possible to add bots in Alien Swarm? Try load up a few bots then