while playing enemy territory recently, i noticed that, upon connecting to a server, my client was instructed to download some files via http, rather than from the server directly. would anyone happen to know if there is a way to do this with a quake3 dedicated server, or am i out of luck? (i'm hoping for faster downloads for people who are lacking files needed to play on my server) thanks.
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quake3 server and http downloads?
if your running punkbuster you can use the pb_sv_task command to output a message every so often telling ppl where to download files. I think some server side mods can do that to. you can find them in the T&T forum sticky thread.
i was looking into this some more, and noticed that enemy territory has stuff like sv_wwwDownload and sv_wwwBaseURL. these appear to be lacking in quake3, so i think i may be out of luck with respect to http downloading. even if there were a mod that would do it, since the server is already running osp, it wouldn't be possible to have both work at the same time, right?
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Yes, but...
Props to DRC|Wartex from the IU forums.DRC|Wartex wrote:yay for me! I set up a test LAN, and guess what, download speed and sv_maxrate depends on sv_fps. Best results I got if empty server is running at 200 fps, and client rate is 90000 (thats max AFAIK) and sv_maxrate 0 (no limit). Download speeds reach sustained 75-80 KB/sec.
If sv_maxrate is 25000 and sv_fps is 40, download speed will be around 40 KB/s. Basically maxrate is what it is at 20 fps. With higher FPS you need to apply the multiplier. It's not exact because of overhead. I.e. sv_fps = 40, sv_maxrate = 25000, download speed will be 40-45 KB/s and not 50.
I also did test on an Internet server.
If there is anyone in the server, download speed will be jumping up and down but in general, doubling sv_fps will give you 1.8x boost in download speed. Also, internet is not a LAN, so there is no perfect conditions. My game server is in NY datacenter (Voxel). Best results I have gained with sv_fps 80 (25 KB/sec), anything higher or lower only hurts the speed.
man i forgot all about sv_fps controling dl rate. thats actually something they fixed in the 1.32 PR. Unfortunately its not very practical for internet servers. raising the sv_fps really increases bandwidth demand on the server for each player connected. most net servers wont use a number higher than 35 for that reason. It works great for lan though.DRC|Wartex wrote:yay for me! I set up a test LAN, and guess what, download speed and sv_maxrate depends on sv_fps. Best results I got if empty server is running at 200 fps, and client rate is 90000 (thats max AFAIK) and sv_maxrate 0 (no limit). Download speeds reach sustained 75-80 KB/sec.
If sv_maxrate is 25000 and sv_fps is 40, download speed will be around 40 KB/s. Basically maxrate is what it is at 20 fps. With higher FPS you need to apply the multiplier. It's not exact because of overhead. I.e. sv_fps = 40, sv_maxrate = 25000, download speed will be 40-45 KB/s and not 50.
I also did test on an Internet server.
If there is anyone in the server, download speed will be jumping up and down but in general, doubling sv_fps will give you 1.8x boost in download speed. Also, internet is not a LAN, so there is no perfect conditions. My game server is in NY datacenter (Voxel). Best results I have gained with sv_fps 80 (25 KB/sec), anything higher or lower only hurts the speed.