Thanks for responding, I know it's not my slow hard-drive because it hardly ever touches it (virtually no hard-drive activity). I guessed it would only be the speed of my proc but I recall a very informative topic where the !minimum! requirements were said to be an 800 MHz for up to 8 players. I check out blackvipers as soon as I get home. But personally, I should think that 2.4 ghz should be more than enough... what are the requirements for a 1.6 CS DS (up to 10 players)? And what is your experience with map changes?
Micha -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BeNt Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds] Slow map change Ok not to be toooo smart assy but why a DS on a laptop,and I'm just wpndering.Is it for a lan party? Anyways the slow map times may be due to the slower harddrive speeds in the laptop.Or maybe even the mix of the slower speeds and a celeron on windows ;) Only thing I could think to do to speed up the map changes would be to put it on a faster computer.OR play around with the system on the laptop and optimize it as much as possible.But you will not get good map changes out of a laptop.Or at least I wouldn't think so.If its on windows xp or 2000 try blackvipers website.Google it,it will be the first website that come up.Its got some good tips on speeding up systems.Just my hunch............. BeNt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micha Vermeer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:32 AM Subject: [hlds] Slow map change > -- If you have already read this, I'm sorry, but I've sent this message > with > a wrong subject line before, so I send it again... :] -- > > Hi all, > > I'm quite new in the field of setting up a dedicated server but I have > just > one or 2 questions: > > The first question is about hardware requirements: > > I tried running a DS on my laptop which has a 2.4 GHz Intel Celeron in it > and 256 Mb memory. Running it is not the problem, but changing maps takes > for-ev-ver. > > It crunches away at 100% for a couple _minutes_ (like 2 or 3). > When I'm playing dust (as that's the default map it starts with) it > doesn't > come much higher that 5%, although it spikes to about 50% for a split > second > when the bomb goes off. When I switch to office and played a minute or two > I > tried switch back to dust (which was much faster to load) and than back to > office again (hoping it would have cached something) it took a little less > time, but still an unacceptable 1.5 to 2 minutes (the pc (client) I play > with, loads the map within a few seconds (like normal when I play on inet) > after finally getting the details from my DS) > > I hope that makes a little sense :) > > I use the DS that came with my steam account. Would it be better if I > tried > the HLDSupdatetool (spelling?)? What can I do to make those map changes > faster? > > Thank you SO much ;D > > DrBashir _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
