At 05:11 PM 3/2/2009, Blood Letter wrote: >I see you have experience with Nvidia's 690G. >LOL.
Yup. Nvidia chipsets are pretty much junk. Turning on HPET breaks APIC interrupt routing. > > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:10:50 -0500 > > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > > From: g...@velocity-servers.net > > Subject: Re: [hlds] 2003 or 2008 > > > > At 10:26 AM 3/2/2009, CLAN RCR wrote: > > >Hey Midnight, I looked up HPET and this is what Microsoft says about it. > > > > > >The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) was developed jointly by Intel and > > >Microsoft to meet the timing requirements of multimedia and other > > >time-sensitive applications. Originally, the > HPET was called the Multimedia > > >Timer (MM Timer), but the name was later changed to avoid confusion with a > > >Microsoft DirectX timer, and to better describe the timer. > > > > > > > > >I had a couple questions.. > > > > > >1. Is that only active with an Intel processor? > > > > No. It's more or less chipset specific. > > > > >2. Does the srcdsfpsbooster use HPET to do > what it does I know it uses some > > >media player extention, but if HPET the reason why it works? > > >If you don't know, that's fine.. I'll dig more and figure it out, but I > > >thought it might be a handy opportunity to ask. > > > > That uses an API. It only supports it if it's enabled in the BIOS. If > > it's disabled, it uses either > > the PIT, or the TSC. > > > > >Currently we're running an Opteron 2.4ghz dual core processor and > > >experiencing 43% processor utilization on a full 32 slot server. I have no > > >idea why it's using so many resources.. We > even have fps_max set at 300 from > > >the 600 we use to run. > > > > Older opertons do not support HPET. Certain AMD chipsets report > > incorrect operating frequencies for HPET, so you > > may get clock aliasing. I seen a couple of nVidia boards report HPET > > running at 25mhz when they are really running at 10mhz > > > > > > >-Matt > > > > > >On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Midnight <mido...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > 2008. Better Kernel (google for the details), supports HPET (though > > > > only really needed for 1000fps servers). 2003 does not. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cc2iscooL wrote: > > > > > 2008. Hands down. > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:47 PM, <mu...@anbservers.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, > or view the list archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. >http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGTX_WL_HM_express_032009#colortheme >_______________________________________________ >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
