start /high wont work

[Dub]

i have a problem. when i put the start in front of my command line to have it always start in high priority when i try to save the cnages i alway get an error saying

"The name "start" specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct"

also on a post Pengy wrote this on a diff post

"start /affinity # /wait /realtime
Put a number in the # space, your going to have to mess around with it to find out which cores they use "

but what if i have a quad core and want to dedicate 2 core to it?

[St1flus]

You can dedicate more than 1 core to your server?
Tell me!!

[Beaverbeliever]

SRCDS can only use 1 core at a time, or so I've heard. You can't put a server on more than 1 core.

[Dub]

idunno. i figured since i saw the option on the task manager it would let me :/ guess not either way. any ideas on my the start line wont work?

[Drocona]

Dub Wrote:"The name "start" specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct"

You are using it withing a shortcut, these commands can only be used in batch files.

[pengy]

Ok from what i have tested (based on a 4 core system on server 2003) basically all this is doing is telling srcds which cores it can use and if one of the cores are overloaded it switches to a different one
#1 : Core 1
#2 : Core 2
#3 : Core 1,2
#4 : Core 3
#5 : Core 1,3
#6 : Core 2,3
#7 : Core 1,2,3
#8 : Core 4
#9 : Core 2,4
#10 : Core 1,4
#11 : Back to Core 1 (didnt test anything past 10)
Hmmm seemed to miss one, will check later and repost update one, core 3,4 missing

[Dub]

oooo nice

[pengy]

I have too much time on my hands to figure this stuff out O_O

[St1flus]

Tell me what your results are... Because if it can use more than 1, this is a MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH in SRCDS

[Hazz]

If you don't assign a CPU core Windows will balance SRCDS evenly between the cores...

[pengy]

Ok, so all the affinity does is tell which cores it can use and which cores it cant, it still only uses one core for processing but if that core has too many applications it can change to a different core.

[Drocona]

pengy Wrote:Ok, so all the affinity does is tell which cores it can use and which cores it cant, it still only uses one core for processing but if that core has too many applications it can change to a different core.

Yep, for SRCDS that's correct.

For any multithreading program you allow it to use all teh processors and it will use them at the same time.

But SRCDS is still single threaded so it will switch like you said above

[stronius]

For servers running 500fps - 1000fps, I've found better performance by assigning the server's to specific cores.