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Dead at 75 - improving the server

KalvinB · 2001-06-03T23:52:39

The server computer is an AMD 333 with 352MB of ram running Win2k. I believe the network connection is 100mbit but it might be 10mbit. With 5 NPC clients running on one computer controlling 15 NPCs each the server program exited out. Network traffic averaged 1KB up and 1.5KB down per second for each of the NPC clients which isn''t much considering how much bandwidth I have. That figure includes any overhead from the packets. How could I go about improving the limit on the server? Better processor? More memory? The server program runs about 120,000fps (redraw every 5 seconds) when unloaded and was at about 430 when the server program quit. The normal client I had running to monitor what the gameworld looked like it handled everything fine. Framerate could have been better but it''s a crap computer. All clients automatically shutdown when the server quits so there were no issues there. Ben http://therabbithole.redback.inficad.com