High ping

[Dr. Hax]

I see that most people have around 100-200 ping. Where is the server located exactly and why is average ping so high?

[anzati1]

its not always about server location, it could also be server performance. for example if theres a lot of cars out, it'll cause more ping lag naturally, because cars are heavy to run on a server.

[Canadian-bacon]

Chicago; Latency. It doesn't really mean much compared to other video games. Ping (location) isn't a factor that affects performance generally.

^ what anzati said

[Pendred]

20 year old game go brrr

[handsome]

they dont want to pay for a non chicago host 

[Dr. Hax]

11 hours ago, anzati1 said:

its not always about server location, it could also be server performance. for example if theres a lot of cars out, it'll cause more ping lag naturally, because cars are heavy to run on a server.

so better servers i guess?

[anzati1]

23 minutes ago, Dr. Hax said:

so better servers i guess?

no.... garry's mod is very old and even with the best code ever, the server will already be under a massive amount of stress. (from a developer) yes code can be GOOD, but remotely having a server that's interesting needs to take a performance hit once in a while.

or you can have zero features with zero lag....

(also im pretty sure diverge runs one of the best possible purchasable VPS machines lol)

garrysmod servers are also limited to a certain amount of CPU Cores, once again, its an old game. at most servers can be hyper threaded if i remember but at that point its time to look at the server code and not the hardware

[Dr. Hax]

14 minutes ago, anzati1 said:

no.... garry's mod is very old and even with the best code ever, the server will already be under a massive amount of stress. (from a developer) yes code can be GOOD, but remotely having a server that's interesting needs to take a performance hit once in a while.

or you can have zero features with zero lag....

(also im pretty sure diverge runs one of the best possible purchasable VPS machines lol)

garrysmod servers are also limited to a certain amount of CPU Cores, once again, its an old game. at most servers can be hyper threaded if i remember but at that point its time to look at the server code and not the hardware

Makes sense. Hopefully it will be ported to S&box (Source 2) whenever that's out.

Edited Thursday at 05:19 AM by Dr. Hax

[anzati1]

21 minutes ago, Dr. Hax said:

Makes sense. Hopefully it will be ported to S&box (Source 2) whenever that's out.

@vasectomy