srcds - lag at round start

[blik]

Hi Guys,

I have searched before you all go mad... But nothing really suggested helped or indicated the problem.

I'm running srcds dods servers on a 2.4Ghz Q6600, 4GB RAM, Windows Server 2003 dedicated server - and I'm getting dreadful lag at round start and end in dods.

I do not use mani stats, so thats not the issue. Also I am using the same configs I used on my previous dedi (which didnt suffer the lag issue) which was a core2duo E6600.

So I believe it has something to do with the CPU scheduling with the four cores. I tried setting affinity too with no avail.

Any suggestions appreciated.

[skeletor]

first question. when this lag is occuring, what is the cpu usage like?

In poorly made maps there is a lot of stuff falling, or moving at round start and this can cause a really high load every time the round starts. If it is your cpu being maxed out, and your running non-default maps. I bet it is the maps fault.

[blik]

skeletor Wrote:first question. when this lag is occuring, what is the cpu usage like?

In poorly made maps there is a lot of stuff falling, or moving at round start and this can cause a really high load every time the round starts. If it is your cpu being maxed out, and your running non-default maps. I bet it is the maps fault.

Nope, CPU is sitting at 4% and doesn's spike. I only use official maps. I really dont understand this...!

[Spartanfrog]

Hmmm whats your hard drive speed.