When I do not have an fps-boosting app open (Flash, Media player), my srcds uses barely 1-2% of my cpu power, and this is with 15 bots and 4 human players. This sounds strange but it's really what Task Manager tells me.
Once I have CS:S running, or a flash game going, or media player open, it jumps up to around 20% cpu usage, and this detracts from the experience when I go in to play on the server.. because the dedicated server is now using more CPU simply because it does when i have some sort of media application open, CS:S client included. Even when i use the fps_max command in the dedicated server to keep the number lower, closer to 64fps, the CPU usage still jumps to 20% or so when I go in to play the game.
So now I want to know, when windows tells me that its only using 1% CPU, is it really only using that much? I find it hard to believe, with 4 users already playing, beating the hell out of the bots. If this is true, why does it always have to jump up to 20 or so percent when I could really use that extra computing power??
Is my only solution to obtain another computer on which to run my srcds?
Another thing, running the srcds and client on the same computer hasn't caused me any problems aside from the unavoidable CPU usage boost that always happens when I try to do it. I imagine this would actually make the server smoother when I come to play on it, since it raises the FPS it runs at?
Once I have CS:S running, or a flash game going, or media player open, it jumps up to around 20% cpu usage, and this detracts from the experience when I go in to play on the server.. because the dedicated server is now using more CPU simply because it does when i have some sort of media application open, CS:S client included. Even when i use the fps_max command in the dedicated server to keep the number lower, closer to 64fps, the CPU usage still jumps to 20% or so when I go in to play the game.
So now I want to know, when windows tells me that its only using 1% CPU, is it really only using that much? I find it hard to believe, with 4 users already playing, beating the hell out of the bots. If this is true, why does it always have to jump up to 20 or so percent when I could really use that extra computing power??
Is my only solution to obtain another computer on which to run my srcds?
Another thing, running the srcds and client on the same computer hasn't caused me any problems aside from the unavoidable CPU usage boost that always happens when I try to do it. I imagine this would actually make the server smoother when I come to play on it, since it raises the FPS it runs at?