Witchings 70 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 One thing that has really been a problem is the player cap, while not an issue most of the time, it can really start to drag the server. When the player count reaches around 110 in players, the server's performance drops immensely, the war timer and OBJs break, causing people to have to restart the server to be able to make callouts. Also, the server itself starts to really lag, causing it to be incredibly hard to kill and enjoy wars or even peacetime stuff like match is almost impossible to do. What I'm suggesting is either upgrade the server (I don't know if this one's possible, given what I've heard about the server's cost is already.) or decrease the player limit to prevent the server from becoming too laggy/broken. This will surely benefit those who wish to enjoy both war and peacetime without having overcoming lag on practically everything, also makes the server more appealing to newer players when they aren't seeing everyone skip and teleport around. Link to comment
eXg-Buddha 729 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=366151973 I highly suggest looking at this post. When the server gets rough, putting one of those 4 commands in console will ensure you are hitting the correct hotbox during war even if they're pinging around. CW 2.0 works especially well with this command. 1 Link to comment
PraetorDon 485 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 41 minutes ago, Witchings said: One thing that has really been a problem is the player cap, while not an issue most of the time, it can really start to drag the server. When the player count reaches around 110 in players, the server's performance drops immensely, the war timer and OBJs break, causing people to have to restart the server to be able to make callouts. Also, the server itself starts to really lag, causing it to be incredibly hard to kill and enjoy wars or even peacetime stuff like match is almost impossible to do. What I'm suggesting is either upgrade the server (I don't know if this one's possible, given what I've heard about the server's cost is already.) or decrease the player limit to prevent the server from becoming too laggy/broken. This will surely benefit those who wish to enjoy both war and peacetime without having overcoming lag on practically everything, also makes the server more appealing to newer players when they aren't seeing everyone skip and teleport around. From experience, increasing server specs can massively increase cost for performance that is not parallel to what you're paying for. Only Garnet knows what he's paying for the hardware, so I can't really comment much more on this. The main issue with GMOD is the engine wasn't designed for so many people to be on at the same time, if memory serves correct. Increasing "the specs" may not have much impact on latency people are getting, decreasing the player count might, but as I haven't run a GMOD server before, I'm not sure what the "sweet spot" is for players/performance. 1 Link to comment
The Garnut Nutter 15,201 Posted December 31, 2019 The Garnut Share Posted December 31, 2019 I was just talking to @shrimp about how this map was poorly designed and will result in heavy lag during use when the server is taxed, he said he hasn't seen anybody complain about this particular issue, and then three days later this thread is up. Lag is expected with 128 players online, but the fact this map was designed in a really stupid way (2x as many brushes as my previous maps) doesn't contribute to the issue. Dropping the player cap is not something i'm going to do, but i'll do my best to optimize the server's code as well as look into options of updating the map to accommodate significantly more FPS. 3 hours ago, Witchings said: the war timer and OBJs break Never heard of this issue before 3 hours ago, Witchings said: What I'm suggesting is either upgrade the server (I don't know if this one's possible, given what I've heard about the server's cost is already.) or decrease the player limit to prevent the server from becoming too laggy/broken. I'm already paying a mind-boggling amount of money, and upgrade our servers at every new intel CPU release. There is no "upgrading the server" unfortunately. 1 Link to comment
Witchings 70 Posted December 31, 2019 Topic Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Just now, Garnet said: Never heard of this issue before What happens is that the timer will go to like -4 hours or something like that, and then the OBJs % and cap zone will not be shown to the players, to fix it one must simply relog on the server. Thanks for addressing this though! Link to comment
shrimp 764 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 11 minutes ago, Garnet said: I was just talking to @shrimp When I saw this thread go up, I literally slammed my head on my desk. 1 2 Link to comment
Silo 807 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 15 minutes ago, Garnet said: Never heard of this issue before This issue used to happen quite alot in early 2018 or around that time, It would only happen at like 110-128 players. Its been a long ass time since the last time it happened 1 Link to comment
The Garnut Nutter 15,201 Posted December 31, 2019 The Garnut Share Posted December 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, dude said: This issue used to happen quite alot in early 2018 or around that time, It would only happen at like 110-128 players. Its been a long ass time since the last time it happened I would easily toss the issue on the extra CPU hogging/conflicts from cars being on the server. We didn't have vehicles for the entirety of mid 2018-mid 2019. 1 Link to comment
Gamma 303 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) 20 hours ago, Witchings said: What happens is that the timer will go to like -4 hours or something like that, and then the OBJs % and cap zone will not be shown to the players, to fix it one must simply relog on the server. Thanks for addressing this though! You can just relog and it fixes. Not a huge issue really just when you die quickly relog and play for the next 20 min. I think this is a really small issue that only happens when the server is really full and not a huge problem but would be nice if fixed but garnet already is spending so much time on us already let's cut some slack and look at the bigger picture then look at this Edited January 1, 2020 by Gamma My dumbass left out some info 1 1 Link to comment
Hatchet 18 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 21 hours ago, Garnet said: (2x as many brushes as my previous maps) Can’t convert any of them into world models with CTRL + T? Link to comment
Witchings 70 Posted January 1, 2020 Topic Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Gamma said: You can just relog and it fixes. Not a huge issue really just when you die quickly relog and play for the next 20 min. I think this is a really small issue that only happens when the server is really full and not a huge problem but would be nice if fixed but garnet already is spending so much time on us already let's cut some slack and look at the bigger picture then look at this It's more so a concern with newer players who do not know the fix, and don't know how to work GMOD too well. I do agree it's not a big problem but would be a convenient thing to fix as well as optimization. Link to comment
The Garnut Nutter 15,201 Posted January 16, 2020 The Garnut Share Posted January 16, 2020 The server has been optimized and it shouldn't be an issue to host for more than 110 players from this point forward. Link to comment
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