Help with bandwidth rates and tick.

[Robbaz]

Setting up a server for the new hl2 mod Zombie Panic Source, and need some help with some smaller settings.

The server.
Celeron 2,8ghz
1gig ram
ati 9800pro
250gig hdd.

Internet
100mbit down, 10mbit up.

What i want to host is a 14 player map with as low lagg and cpu usage as possiable. But i dont know what the tickrate should be, nor the rates.

This is what i have now.

decalfrequency 10
fps_max 800
sv_minrate 4000
sv_maxrate 9999
sv_minupdaterate 10
sv_maxupdaterate 45
decalfrequency 10
fps_max 300

Is that bad or good? Is 66 tickrate good or shall i go 100 tickrate?

Lagged badly when i testet everything with the orginal settings 20 players.

[Spartanfrog]

Well celeron is bad bad bad for srcds but ignoring that fact, set the fps_max 600. This should get 512 fps (not sure how that will handle with a celeron). 66 tickrate would be good I think a good balance of CPU usage and better game play. Change the min/maxrate options to sv_minrate 10000 and sv_maxrate 35000. This would make the game bad for Dial up users but dont worry about it. Then make sv_minupdaterate 66 and sv_maxupdaterate 66. That should be good.

Offtopic: ZPS is out?????!!! YES! Been waiting for 3 years...

[Robbaz]

Spartanfrog Wrote:Well celeron is bad bad bad for srcds but ignoring that fact, set the fps_max 600. This should get 512 fps (not sure how that will handle with a celeron). 66 tickrate would be good I think a good balance of CPU usage and better game play. Change the min/maxrate options to sv_minrate 10000 and sv_maxrate 35000. This would make the game bad for Dial up users but dont worry about it. Then make sv_minupdaterate 66 and sv_maxupdaterate 66. That should be good.

Offtopic: ZPS is out?????!!! YES! Been waiting for 3 years...

Ahh tanks fixed the lagg but sadly my celeron is weak, got a p4 2,8ghz should i test stealing the cpu? Perhaps its worth it but both cpus sucks ass.

And yeah zps is out

[Spartanfrog]

Use the pentium 4 2.8

[Robbaz]

Spartanfrog Wrote:Use the pentium 4 2.8

Ill steal it from another comp, hope it work.

[Spartanfrog]

It should be good.

[Robbaz]

Just another thing, got a old mobo with a amd 3500+ that was clocked to 2,8ghz how many player can it handle? Sadly i dont have any power, ram or case for it.

But a 3500+ 2800mhz
7900gt
2gig ddr 667mhz

Can it handle 20 players?

[Drocona]

The 2,8GHz P4 will hold around 40 players at 100 tick.

I'm not too familiar with AMD speeds, won't be able to give a good estimate on that one..

[Spartanfrog]

I have a dual core athlon 64 2.4 ghz and it can hold, with a ts and website running, 70 slots.