So how good is the Source netcode actually ?

[sharp]

To everyone who played cs:s: how does the new Source netcode feels? Is it improved alot to the old HL1 netcode?

 

[fuzzy_aus]

similar apparently

 

[kevinb456]

well people have only played on LANs so far, so we wont truly know until we test it out on the big old internet

 

[Pauly]

kingthebadger would know! He can play online from his home anytime he wants.

 

[evil^milk]

If it sucks on the internet, then i'll die

 

[craig]

I played in an online server for about 5 minutes with one other person, so I'm not the best person to comment, but it seemed okay. The rest of the time I was on a LAN.

 

[thehunter1320]

kingthebadger would know! He can play online from his home anytime he wants.

isn't he a little bitch?

 

[hasan]

well people have only played on LANs so far, so we wont truly know until we test it out on the big old internet

What are you talking about? I only played on the internet.

only for one hour thu =P

I can't really judge, at first I thought the netcode was bad because there was a lot of lag.

But then I switched servers and the second server wasn't so laggy. So can't tell until I play on many different servers.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

With the physics enabled it's about the same, a little more bandwith intensive by a few 0.1 kb.

With physics disabled, it's better than CS1.6

The resulting bandwidth per client is:
GoldSrc : 2.72 kB/sec
Source : 2.85 kB/sec
This is pretty good since we added quite a few physics entities in de_dust. I made an extra testrun where I disabled physics in Source and got 2.48 kB/sec. It's tried to measure spikes somehow and compared packet size distribution. Source engine packets are a little bit bigger, but large packets are rare (about 7% for packets > 256 bytes).

 

[Mr. Redundant]

isn't he a little bitch?

he is taking videos and uploading them for all of us who are waiting, I would say thats pretty damned honorable

 

[thehunter1320]

he is taking videos and uploading them for all of us who are waiting, I would say thats pretty damned honorable

1: did you notice the ""
2: he can still play it! we can only watch

and yes, using a cyber cafe account at home to play a game less than a week away is very honorable :dozey:

 

[Lobster]

It depends whether they were using the Dedicated Server or not, and also the situation the system was in, Some people seem to have had a lag free experience, a couple said certain servers were laggy, we wont know untill theres a wider test, but valves tests suggested it would be on par with HL1's netcode, which is pretty decent.

 

[lePobz]

Net code is ok, aparently there was an issue with bodies falling in different places on different machines (even on lan) but objects are fine, and the pings are similar to HL/CS.

 

[Mr. Redundant]

2: he can still play it! we can only watch

yeah but look at the poor guy's comp specs.. he doesnt even have 512mb of ram.

 

[kevinb456]

What are you talking about? I only played on the internet.

only for one hour thu =P

I can't really judge, at first I thought the netcode was bad because there was a lot of lag.

But then I switched servers and the second server wasn't so laggy. So can't tell until I play on many different servers.

oh sorry, i thought because only net cafes have it, then people would be playing on LANS. i get what you mean now.

 

[kingthebadger]

the game would perfectly for me, if me had 512 ram =) i get up to 80fps down to 30 if i had good ram