Hosting a CSS server

marc69 · 7 Sep 2008 at 22:23

Hey Guys,

Basically im just hosting a server with a few fun maps on for me and my mates to have a laugh on, im using the inbuilt create server option.

My internet speeds

Was wondering if this is an adequate connection for say 5-6 people.

Im asking because sometimes the pings are about 100+ Could this be settings or is the connection just not good enough?

Cheers

Xez · 7 Sep 2008 at 23:06

Should handle that many people but it all depends on the other peoples rates

marc69 · 7 Sep 2008 at 23:11

Apparenly because the maps are quite "busy" with lots of random moving psyhics thats the reason.

CSS only supports single core and while hosting one of my cores is maxed out which i think is what is causing the lag.

Any idea how to when hosting get it to use more than one core?

Cheers

marc69 · 8 Sep 2008 at 13:44

Bump.

If having a quad core makes no difference in the "CSS - Hosting" department why do all the servers websites host them on quads?

Cheers

Murney · 8 Sep 2008 at 13:53

Get your friends to lower there rates if they start getting high pings. It's due to your slow upload speed.

marc69 · 8 Sep 2008 at 14:36

They can lower there rates but they will still feel the lag.

.:MBK:. · 8 Sep 2008 at 14:41

marc69 said:
Bump.

If having a quad core makes no difference in the "CSS - Hosting" department why do all the servers websites host them on quads?

Cheers

cos they are usually hosting more than 1 server or are designed to host most than one server

Xez · 8 Sep 2008 at 15:23

marc69 said:
Bump.

If having a quad core makes no difference in the "CSS - Hosting" department why do all the servers websites host them on quads?

Cheers

Servers are dedicated so they dont need to render what your having to render like all the graphics as its console based mainly. Plus server can assigned to use certain cores which is where more cores are benificial. Dedicated servers can run many servers without being at 100% load unless most if not all servers are full

If your playing with bots then this would deffinatly cause an issue. I use to do what your wanting to with friends with garysmod which is a lot more busy than CSS most of the time when things are being built and this was on my old AMD 64 systems!

marc69 · 8 Sep 2008 at 18:19

Cheers for the info.

If I was using the source dedicated server and not actually playing in the server do you think the performance would increase?

Cheers

marc69 · 8 Sep 2008 at 19:39

lo again guys,

Basically I was going to test the source dedicated server and its just having non of it. If i host the game through the game "Create Server" they can all join, If i use the dedicated server non of them can connect.

SS below of the ports of forwarded.

http://i37.tinypic.com/jz9v6b.jpg

Cheers

Xez · 8 Sep 2008 at 22:01

Do you know how to create a dedicated server?

For you to join it also it needs to be on another computer.

Try putting sv_lan 0 or sv_lan 1 in the console
this is normally what stops people from joining if it isnt the firewall. You could try and stop the firewall just to see if its the router firewall or anything else

marc69 · 9 Sep 2008 at 01:48

Xez said:
Do you know how to create a dedicated server?

For you to join it also it needs to be on another computer.

Try putting sv_lan 0 or sv_lan 1 in the console
this is normally what stops people from joining if it isnt the firewall. You could try and stop the firewall just to see if its the router firewall or anything else

Its pretty simple to create the server using the tools supplied by valve

sv_lan 0 turns it into an internet server, you will get a different error message if this was the issue.

Software firewall / Router Secruity all turned off