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VC's Getting Pissed Off.
VC:
Sorry I was kinda late with this, I've been arranging for houseguests.
A terrible thing has been happening to me recently. I will shoot someone, they won't die, and I'll look at my netgraph and see something upsetting and yell this server sucks and F10.
We all know that tickrate is important. But the setting is the goal. If your server cannot handle 66 ticks, and starts to drag down like this highlighted value shows, your server is going to suffer terrible problems. Bogus clientside blood because the player location warped a bit, interpolation buffers running out and making players jerk around, and all that fun crap.
Set your server to 50 or 33 ticks if your server starts doing this when firefights become large. Also, adjust the rate control values in your server config appropriately. (Default 66 tick: 66/50; 50 tick: 50/33; 33 tick: 33/20) Lowering player count can help, too, of course. You're better off with a stable 33 or 50, than a 66 that suddenly plummets to the 40's.
Note that the netgraph figure is based on client received packets, other things can modify this value, but if your connection is fine, a drop in this value indicates the server is unable to keep up with its tickrate.
mbsurfer:
It's upsetting to see how some servers can't handle what they say they can. If your server is 20+ slot, then make sure it can handle that without chugging down..
@VC
Where the hell is 90210 in the title?!
Jonathan [Spider]:
you butt head haha you just had to do that in the tittle.. i told you i was gonna have to punch you for that, and don't think ill forget if we ever do a dev meet up haha.
looks like our biggest design issues stem from servers these days lol.
Ryan [Saiz]:
Grab your torches and pick forks boys.
Sp1nn3y:
--- Quote from: Jonathan [Spider] on February 12, 2009, 03:42:24 am ---looks like our biggest design issues stem from servers these days lol.
--- End quote ---
Allowing too many people in a server - this tickrate issue - i know there's more...
Time to start setting limits to certain things.. :-/
/grabs torch... anyone got a light?
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