Half Life dedicated server minimum spec

[commodore]

I'm planning to set up a couple of dedicated servers for Half Life and Counter Strike. But before I do, I'd like some advice on what is the minimum spec machine I could get away with using for the task.

Cheers
Chris

[LordPhil]

It all depends on how many people can play on your server at a time. I have ran a CS dedicated server on an AMD 1ghz Athlon with 512mb RAM and it ran perfectley on 28 players. You might be able to get away with an AMD Duron 800, but I would keep ram to around 512, no lower than 256. Everyone says run Linux dedicated servers atm (which is a good idea of course) but our clan server ran perfectley on a win-32 OS, so dont be too worried about having Linux.

Hope it helps

[nik]

Originally posted by commodore
I'm planning to set up a couple of dedicated servers for Half Life and Counter Strike. But before I do, I'd like some advice on what is the minimum spec machine I could get away with using for the task.

What OS are you running?

N

[commodore]

I'll be using Windows 98 or 2000 or XP - definitely not any flavour of unix or linux.

Chris

[LordPhil]

I must say don't run HL server on XP. Personally I haven't had problems but people I know have said it can become quite unstable. Stick with 98SE or 2k.

[Dwarf_Pr0n]

And I'd say go with Win98SE cos I've had problems with Win 98 machines trying to connect to a Win 2K server but never the other way around.
Those specs above were about right:
800 MHz
256 Mb RAM (minimum)

Those will comfortably run a dedicaed server (even had a 16 player server run well on a PII 500 with 128Mb RAM)

[Heners_UK]

I think for network games you could get away with a P500 and 128mb ram. For net server hosting its normally more a case of your upload.

[commodore]

Well it looks like I am probably going to go with a Duron 800 and 256Mb Ram for running HL and mods, and an AMD K6-2 450 with 128Mb Ram for running Quake versions and maybe UT.

Chris

[r3plica]

I have recently aquired 2 pc's and am thinking of not only hosting servers for my fav games (hl, cs, flf, q3, etc). Also I want to host my site (www.icenians.com) i have recently made an ftp service and forum, email (signup) etc.
My specs are:

pc1

amd 1.4
512 ddr
40 gig
cdwr
dvd
g-f 2 mx
sb live plat
win xp

pc2

amd 1.533 (xp 1800)
512 sdr
70 gig
g-f 2 mx
cdwr
sb live plat
win xp

so do u think that i would get away with using pc1 ?
is it possible to host games and a site ?

[MadMac]

One thing are you looking at hosting on the net or just local lan events. As I think you will find that it's recommended that you have at least 2Mb Lease line.

[LordPhil]

You can host on a 512kbps connection (ADSL, Cable) but olny if it's not that big of site. Anything big, with expected large viewing numbers needs a leasedline as MadMac said.

Plus you don't need that big of a computer to host a webbie, a P133 should do.

[MadMac]

I was talking about hosting Game Servers, web sites you can host with two tin cans and a piece of string.

[Pigeon]

i heard some of jolts cs servers were K6-2 500's 8)

when 1.1 came out though some go a lot better to play on than others.

Oh yeah our (linux)LAN server is a P2 400, had 28 people on it without sweat one guy a windows server with about double the spec and it only suported 16 smoothly

[LordPhil]

My old dod clan were made up of quite alot of jolt league and public dod admins, so we could supposibley get discounts on priv. servers. Jolt servers use a Linux OS to host there servers. Even though we had discounts we decided to purchase a BW public server. Most people admited out server was far supperior in stability, the smothness and speed, even though it was a win32 OS and running from America that other clans jolt servers in UK.

So Linux is not always superior.. but 99% of the time it is

Ohh the stability, speed etc. might have also been because the heavy £109 a month our clan paid for the server (Im sure it was £109)

[r3plica]

well in that case, been able to run a webby and a game server IS possible ?

to see the basic construction of my webby check this (www.icenians.com).

thx for every ones help :rolleyes:

[Space Cowboy]

Out of interest:

P266 - 128Mb RAM - Win 2K Pro?

Enough for 8 player CS?

[LordPhil]

SC im not really sure.. if you clock the CPU to 300-350Mhz I believe it would vastley help. Put some more ram in aswell, you need at least a 256. With those small improvments it might be able to take the strain.

r3plica should do m8

[r3plica]

thx for your help every one, and soon i hope to have me site up and running =]]]

[Dizzie]

I tried a 233 with 64RAM and after 12 players dedicated it started to slow. That was running 2000pro.
I also had a PII 400 with 512RAM and that started to slow with 12 people including myself, who was playing on it aswell as hosting the game :D

[digitalmonk]

People are talking PC spec. Does anyone know what upload you need to run these servers?
I have a max cap of 116kB/s

[CyberDrac]

I found this after a quick Google, but I'm not sure how accurate it is ... maybe one of the server guys can shed some more light on it once they are awake.

http://www.cstrike-planet.com/images/tutorial/i1-1.jpg

The full article can be found here (http://www.cstrike-planet.com/tutorial/1)

CD

[GeeDee]

This thread is 5 years old.......

[CyberDrac]

Well ... better late than never ...

CD

[digitalmonk]

Booooya. Thanks. It doesn't matter how old an article is! LOL