Server framerate

[Punk_FAS.old]

Currently the server seems to cap maxfps to 80.  Quake 2 is an odd game though, and certain frame-rates work better for moving around, specially bunning hopping/strafe running (whatever you wanna call it), and jumping up stairs, etc.  90 is a sweet spot, things run really nicely, most anything is doable at that frame rate.

Was just wondering if it'd be possible to bump the maxfps up by 10 to 90 instead of 80, would make getting around the maps more consistant.  I keep finding myself hitting jump and falling into lava or whatnot, kinda annoying.

[Hydro-cru]

I agree, I asked about this awhile ago but nothing changed.  From what I know and see the problem with xquake is not the pipe its on, its the machine itself, so bumping it up should not hurt.

[Slikkster]

I keep finding myself hitting jump and falling into lava or whatnot, kinda annoying.

heheh I love it when you do that!  Seriously, though, I think the game itself defaults to 90 fps unless the server dictates otherwise, right?  That's been my experience with it on other servers.  

My pet peeve is having full health and jumping from a high ledge, and just as you're jumping, someone bumps ya or whatever and you always "crater" when your normal jump should have left you with more health.  Makes one look kind of silly for jumping, for sure.  

My other pet peeve is when anyone beats me.  I get peeved a lot.   :cry:

[no_life]

i agree, i can hardly move at all or strafe run. i feel like i am going in slo-mo and my moves are sloppy/clumsey when running.

[QuakeDuke]

I keep finding myself hitting jump and falling into lava or whatnot, kinda annoying.

It wouldn't make any difference for me - I seem to have a built in attraction for lava/acid/anything that melt's me. Isn't the fps cap something to help keep lpb/ultra-lpb's from sucking up all the server's bandwidth? Seem I recollect that from somewhere, but, as everyone knows, my memory isn't what it was in the early '6o's....

[ciscon]

we recently had a little discussion about this, since then i've read up even more on it.  i would explain it, but i don't really care ;-)
the jist: if it eats up any more bandwidth at all (which 'probably' wouldn't happen) it would be an extremely small amount per player.  now it's time for my daily blow and coffee session.

[Slikkster]

now it's time for my daily blow and coffee session.

A Java house in Greenwich Village, NYC?  heheh

[console]

Hi !

The server maxfps has been bumped up to 90.

Regards,

[Hydro-cru]

Set back to 80 again, is there a reason for this?  the lag seemed to have nothing to do with the rate. still lags and runs strange on xquake for me.

[ĄƦçɧąɳɠҾԼ]

I never get above 60, my video card sucks.

[console]

Hi Husker,

When we were experiencing excruciatingly bad lag a week or two ago (as differentieted from whatever our 'normal' lag is) ... at least one admin became all but convinced the bad lag began in conjunction with raising the cl_maxfps.  

So we'd raise it, lower it, ... it was hard to tell if it made any difference.  But the lag was so bad, we ultimately went back to the former setting out of desperation.


Regards,

[Hydro-cru]

Ok thanks console!  The mega lag does seem to be gone, but it seems I still get "server" lag for lack of a better word heh.

[console]

Thing is . . . we found out later that the _mega lag_ was apparently due to some SQL processes going crazy on the server machine.

So - - - we're back to musing whether 90 might have been OK after all...!


Regards,