easy FPS question

[SoylentGreen]

Just wondering: My server FPS will not go above ~250 FPS (with media player open. With no media player I get 80 FPS)

How do I increase the FPS the server runs at? And should I even bother if players aren't complaining?



Server has AMD 2500, 1 gig RAM.

[Android2005]

on our server the fps wouldnt go above 65

we then installed a c s 1.6 server with a fps booster metamod plugin, the fps on that server went up to 520 and all of the css servers that we hadnt changed at all went up to 270+fps

dont know if it will help you though

[SoylentGreen]

I read in Valve's support stuff that you can run the Source server at 1000 fps. How is that possible?

[fwfmacleod]

Keep in mind this comes with no warranties. Depending on the server you have and your bandwidth you can do the following.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=293285

[SoylentGreen]

Is there any resource out there that can tell me how much power is needed for servers? For example, "for 64 players you'll need a 1.5mbps upload and at least 1 gig ram + 3ghz CPU" or whatever.

[inc0gs]

SoylentGreen Wrote:Is there any resource out there that can tell me how much power is needed for servers? For example, "for 64 players you'll need a 1.5mbps upload and at least 1 gig ram + 3ghz CPU" or whatever.

http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=108&p_created=1093248464&p_sid=LrsNZlGh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzkmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnB​fY2F0cz01NyZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PTEuNTc7Mi51MCZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25​sJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_topview=1

This basically covers bandwidth. I don't think I have ever seen anything that says how much ram you need or how fast your cpu should be. For the most part, I always have low ram/mem usage for the servers I have. For CPUs, the faster your cpu is, the higher fps/tickrate settings you can use, and the more servers you can run.

Just to give you an idea of how much resources the srcds uses; on an AMD64 dual opteron 250, with 2 gb ram, and wd raptors, rhel 4 w/ kernel 2.6, I have one cs1.6 server (32 slots, nice -15, amxmodx) using an average of 25% cpu & about 6% mem when full, and one css server (32 slots, tickrate 100, fps_max 1000, pingboost 1, 5 plugins, nice -20) using an average of about 15% cpu & about 4% mem with 16 players in the server. IDK how different it would be on a windows system.

[SoylentGreen]

Thanks for the info. By the way, what do you use to admin your HL2DM server? I tried Mani and got poor results, now I just use rcon