Dedicated gaming server...

CK61938

CK61938

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I dont know if this is the right place for it...but here goes.

I am seriously thinking about having a dedicated gaming server set up so I can run games like COD4 and also possibly Crysis Wars.

I want to put them on this set up:

AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
250GB HDD SATAII
ASUS M2R32-MVP motherboard


I going to run Windows 2003 Server on it. But I want to know what exactly is needed to run a dedicated game server? Do I need to run the games themselves on the server?

Thanks all in advance :D
 
Well my upload speed is 1.3Mb...and download is 50Mb. You saying I wont have to specifically use Win 2003? I can use either XP or even Vista? I would much rather use Vista to be honest...
 
mr_x_plosion said:
1.3mb isnt really enough, people will have high latency I would imagine.

You can use xp or even Linux, you need to run a server version of the game, I don't think they use a huge amount of power.
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Not if I restrict the amount to say about 10 users. lol...

funkeh said:
Only a tenner a month for a 20 slot cod4 server.
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Ah thats the other one...I was going to ask if there was some charge involved.

iaind said:
Waste of a decent spec box IMO....
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lol...to be honest, you are probably right...:D
 
Skidilliplop said:
Game servers just run maths in a console window. I've run them on a P4 laptop before. most games the dedicated server application is cross platform so will run on Linux.
when you connect to hosted servers it's not actually a server it's an instance of the game running on a box. Most are average spec linux servers running 8 or more instances at once. Nowdays probably even a VM running COD4 on a box running several VMs - Rack space costs in hosting.

For LAN it'll be fine but for net facing with public access don't bother. Even AnnexM connections with 2.5Mbit up would struggle to run a single medium sized instance. These days it's cheaper to rent one. Plus if it goes wrong you've got experts on hand to fix it rather than have to do it yourself.
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Hmmm...I knew this wouldnt be a walk in the park lol...but thanks for the input...looks like I will have to leave it for the time being and see what else I can do with the AMD based machine. :D
 
lol...well I wasnt expecting this...

I will say I will have to have a long think about this...either way the idea was good but we will see what happens in future...but thank you for all your input :D
 
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