tick rate question

[gangaskan]

for Tf2 what is the best tickrate for gameplay?

specs on my server follow

dual pIII 750 mhz
768MB Ram
74g 10k scsi for server disk drive
20 10k scsi OS


i will be upgrading it soon with a E1200 and 2 gigs ram with same HDD specs

whats the max players i can do on each? (bare in mind i'm a newbie to srcds )


i got a CS:S ds at 100tick running, i haven't had time to fool with it being so late last night playing around on it lol.

[Drocona]

For "performance" I'd call it, 66 tick has always been the best for all online Source games.
If that server will hold is going to be a problem though (TF2)

And that Dual PIII 750MHz will only run 12 slots CSS 100 tick per CPU
That Celeron won't do any good at all... You really have to look into E4300 minimum if you want to run gameservers

[Spartanfrog]

Well TF2's max tickrate is 66, so that is the best. Now that processor will barely hold anything and even if you get the E1200, celerons are horrible for SRCDS.
*Edit*: Dammit I was preposted XD. So just listen to Drocona in stead of me.

[gangaskan]

Drocona Wrote:That Celeron won't do any good at all... You really have to look into E4300 minimum if you want to run gameservers

not even oc'd? ive seen people get up to 3 ghz on them.

[Spartanfrog]

Its the architechture that is bad and overclocking is not a good idea on servers...

[gangaskan]

i'll look into getting a used E6550 or 6600 then

[Spartanfrog]

Yeah you would be much happier.

[gangaskan]

well, after long thought (an hour )


i'm buying a E6600. the current Cpu (e6650) will be swaped out of my gaming machine, then put into my server


whoo! i now have use for the stock Intel heatsink i never used

speedstep ... enable or disable?

[Muppet]

gangaskan Wrote:well, after long thought (an hour )


i'm buying a E6600. the current Cpu (e6650) will be swaped out of my gaming machine, then put into my server


whoo! i now have use for the stock Intel heatsink i never used

speedstep ... enable or disable?

Disabled.

[gangaskan]

thanks!

i got TF2 up last night atleast and gonna work on variants (ie Gungame, party mod for tf, etc)

should i put mani on both or my cs atleast?

edit: and by looking deeper i dont think i can for tf2?

[Spartanfrog]

Use sourcemod or beetlesmod. Mooga lovvvves beetlesmod so I would probably go with that.

[gangaskan]

i tried to install mani i think, i dont think i did it correctly, but then again i did get gungame with knifepro working

going to work on TF2 more today.

[Mooga]

I currently use Beetles mod.
However the most recent Valve update has created some problems and Beetle has stopped release his regular large updates

I would choose Beetle over Mani personally.
I'll considered going over to source mod if it adds more features.

[gangaskan]

i'll look at beetles working and school and stuff is killin my fool around time