Games CPU & Bandwidth Usage

[Crimson]

Hey guys,

 

Just wondering if theres a collection of information anywhere pertaining to the usages of different game servers. I only play TF2 and some CSS, but would like to expand my gaming comunity to other games such as COD4, BF2, CS 1.6, etc. From experience I know srcds is fairly big CPU strain, but not too bad on ram. And from reading these forums COD4 is a big RAM hog, but thats all i've got.

[kalyse]

Not really, you have to do testing, but I can shoot you some information from how I would gauge things.

 

This needs to be taken with ALOT of pinches of salt.

 

If 1 is not much CPU usages, and 10 is alot.

 

COD(other COD) - 3

COD4 about - 4

 

CS Series - 5

BF2 - 9ish

 

 

These numbers are all pretty arbitrary and nothing is a substition for actual testing. You need to know what servers your running, their speed, are the servers going to be idle. Some servers use a lot of resources even when idle, others use none.

Its not so much a science, but a mix between a skill, guesswork and good judgement.

[Creed3020]

Not sure if you are the Crimson I know but if you are, you should recognize my nickname

 

In terms of expanding your community it really depends on where the communities interest's lie because gamers don't usually appreciate vanilla servers if the game is getting to be over 2 years old.

 

I mention this because addons crunch on more resources.

 

As for general RAM and CPU usage I would say that:

 

BF2, Uses decent amount of RAM, plenty of CPU

Any COD game, uses anywhere between a good amount to a lot of RAM, not a lot of CPU

Source Based game, minimal amount of RAM, plenty of CPU