It might save overhead for clients, but certainly not valve.
From our tests valve servers are not being reported by the master
server, so your client does not actually get any data about them. The
performance goes down as more servers are populated in your list, apply
a filter early(under 1k servers or so) and the filter works fine, even
after 3k+ servers though it was only a few seconds delay from typing a
map name in and getting results.
(I cut a lot of text from this thread, it was too large to submit)
On 7/4/2015 1:49 PM, E. Olsen wrote:
However I have to say the server browser itself has some severe
performance issues and takes a lot of CPU to sort just a silly few
servers (even now with just a handful of community servers its slow).
It also seems to buffer data so that I have to press refresh at
least twice, otherwise I get entries that are obsolete (trying to
connect to them does not work).
I think this is due to how the system works (querying servers in
realtime, I believe). It was much, much faster a few years ago before
Valve added thousands of their own server to it, which leads me to
believe those servers are still being parsed, just not shown (which is
certainly not ideal in terms of speed).
I've actually thought there was always a better way to do that. Why
not have every server send an info packet to a central database every
30-60 seconds or so, and have the server browser draw all the info
from that database instead? The only issue, I believe, would be
displaying local ping values for each player, but I'm sure that could
be worked out (perhaps, for the purpose of the browser, replace ping
with and actual region/location, and allow the player to sort closest
server to farthest, etc.)?
At any rate - if there were some way for them to draw the info from a
static database instead of querying thousands of servers, I think it
would both speed things up, and save alot of overhead.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Dominik Friedrichs <d...@forlix.org
<mailto:d...@forlix.org>> wrote:
Thanks to 1nsane, I guess that feature invalidates my point.
I have to disagree regarding the "thousands of servers" Kevin
mentioned though. Once you filter for a specific map and decent
latency, especially at awkward times of day, it usually comes down
to 3 or less Valve servers for me.
However I have to say the server browser itself has some severe
performance issues and takes a lot of CPU to sort just a silly few
servers (even now with just a handful of community servers its slow).
It also seems to buffer data so that I have to press refresh at
least twice, otherwise I get entries that are obsolete (trying to
connect to them does not work).
Regarding finding a gaming community and whatnot... I just cant be
bothered - I want to launch the game and play, thats it.
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