Just want to play against bots

[maniacplayer]

Hi,

I'm totally new to this. My goal is to just play against bots for now. I may want to add another pc to the network later for another human player.

config:
A64 3000+ w/512MB, ATI8500 PC running winXP home connected to BEFW11S4 wireless router through wireless-b. This is the only computer on the network.


Heres what I did:

1) Disable firewall
2) Install the Source Dedicated server (through "play games" menu)
3) Start server cs:s LAN game, add two bots
4) start cs:s and join


Everything seems to work, but there is horrible lag (over 1000ms). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

TIA

[Olleper]

It sounds like your playing with the same comp. your running the server on, if so thats prolly the problem, try connecting with another computer and that should surely solve the problem.

[chil]

I have no problem a non-dedicated server and playing on the same machine against bots - I have not tried it with a dedicated server on the same machine (can't see the point!).
My PC is not massively highly specced and I get an excellent FPS with no lag to speak of. Perhaps you should try this to see if it is the dedicated server that is causing the problem IF you are using a single machine.

[Stealth]

runnind srcds and playing on the same machine will lag a lot!

[maniacplayer]

chil Wrote:I have no problem a non-dedicated server and playing on the same machine against bots - I have not tried it with a dedicated server on the same machine (can't see the point!).
My PC is not massively highly specced and I get an excellent FPS with no lag to speak of. Perhaps you should try this to see if it is the dedicated server that is causing the problem IF you are using a single machine.

I just want to play against the bots (but not against other players). Do you need to setup a dedicated server for this? Is there some easier way? What am I missing?

[Stealth]

launch CS. click start server

[maniacplayer]

Stealth Wrote:launch CS. click start server

DOH!!!!

Just figured I can play by myself vs. bots without dedicated server.

Somebody previously had told me I needed to download and run the dedicated servers to do this. Sorry to waste your time.

[Stealth]

No probs.
If you want other humans joining you can use that way. Its known as a 'Listen Server'