Spec me a css server

Aelred89 · 9 Jul 2007 at 11:33

I want a counter-strike source server to take to LAN parties, i dont want to spend a great deal but must be capable of hosting a 24 man server lag free

Many thanks

Aelred89

waso_dude · 9 Jul 2007 at 11:46

just a p4 with 1gb of ram will cover it easily.

Psycho Sonny · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:19

you dont need an amazin spec machine to run a server, you just need amazing badnwidth, which a lan will already provide you, would it not be possible to run the server from your rig whilst playing the game?

Aelred89 · 9 Jul 2007 at 21:37

Psycho Sonny said:
you dont need an amazin spec machine to run a server, you just need amazing badnwidth, which a lan will already provide you, would it not be possible to run the server from your rig whilst playing the game?

Yeh thats what i'm planning on doing if something can't be sorted out

But it'd be nice to get something permanant.

Also, about running it on my system whilst playing, my friend seems to think because css isnt dual core optimised i'll be effectively running on a 2.4GHz cpu. But i'm running the dedicated server stand alone and then joining it myself, surely this is classed as two processes and would utilise my dual core cpu? ... if ya understand any of that

paradigm · 9 Jul 2007 at 21:40

Aelred89 said:
Yeh thats what i'm planning on doing if something can't be sorted out But it'd be nice to get something permanant.

Also, about running it on my system whilst playing, my friend seems to think because css isnt dual core optimised i'll be effectively running on a 2.4GHz cpu. But i'm running the dedicated server stand alone and then joining it myself, surely this is classed as two processes and would utilise my dual core cpu? ... if ya understand any of that

So long as you set processor affinity correctly in Task Manager once the dedi is up and running, then yeah, you could get the dedi running one core1 and the game client running on core0.

Duke · 9 Jul 2007 at 21:42

Aelred89 said:
Yeh thats what i'm planning on doing if something can't be sorted out But it'd be nice to get something permanant.

Also, about running it on my system whilst playing, my friend seems to think because css isnt dual core optimised i'll be effectively running on a 2.4GHz cpu. But i'm running the dedicated server stand alone and then joining it myself, surely this is classed as two processes and would utilise my dual core cpu? ... if ya understand any of that

Yeah you can either just make a LAN game within CSS or run a dedicated server in the background in Windows (and set it to use the second core), and load up CSS and join it. Any reasonable spec will host games. I have a dual Athlon XP 3200+ server in the telehouse which runs two games off each chip

Aelred89 · 9 Jul 2007 at 21:46

Thanks for the quick response dudes

I might leave it then and just run both off my system

I'll have to look into how to set the server to run on the 2nd core, it's not something thats occured to me to set applications to certain cores lol

Crowze · 9 Jul 2007 at 22:04

It shouldn't be necessary to be honest, as the OS will sort out all of that for you.

Rroff · 10 Jul 2007 at 00:26

One of my dedicated servers is a dual core P4D, 512Mb RAM running debian and it handles source games fine, tho for windows or another OS and 24 player CSS you'd be better off with 1gig or more RAM.