>From stuff I *heard* the _engine_ is, thus as far as I read it that means all Valve games. I could be missing the point and being totally retarded but I could easily cite reliable sources that say the 'new' 3 games (EP 2, Portal and TF2) are and you'd expect that to mean any mod based off it, and possibly the other stuff thus (CS, Hl2 etc..). I might be reading too much into it - correct me if I'm wrong.
Also threaded SRCDs which may or may not be coming at this point (though I'd heard around the same time as TF2 also from a fairly reliable source), seems to affect all HL2 mods - I know it's been tested on at least one public server that I'm aware of for CS:S itself which would also seem to confirm the possibility/likelihood of the above paragraph also. Some of it is supposition and some of it is from likely sources. Be interesting to see how it affects servers and clients, should be good for uber-servers if they're on multiple cores if it's well implemented, with the caveat that it's actually a pretty major architectural change. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin J. Anderson > Sent: 16 September 2007 07:17 > To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: [hlds_linux] TF2 server multi threaded? > > Martin Nicholls wrote: > > I'm actually wondering what's to say that it actually will put more > strain > > on a server? Nothing about the changes suggests to me that it > necessarily > > will (granted not that it won't by any means). > > > > As for being threaded not helping much; I can see obvious places > where you > > can thread the server, whereas it's the client that's harder to > thread and > > improve anything. Not saying you can't with the client by any means > or that > > it has improved much with the server - but you'd expect it would be > harder > > to do with the client than the DS from an architectural aspect for > sure. > > > > All of the above shouldn't be taken as a replacement for me knowing > anything > > specific, just mainly guesswork, but threading is a server 'tool' > more than > > a client tool just because it's more easy to say things like "this is > a > > client, this is a thread for that client" and other methods of doing > > fun/obvious things that aren't necessarily that obvious when coding > the > > client. > > > > I remember reading an article last year about how valve was going to be > heading towards more multi-threaded code. I have not heard much about > it since, but then again have not been paying much attention. Is TF2 > going to be a test bed for a valve game being multi threaded? > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
