FastDL and gluapack for faster server loading times

[Danny the Sniper]

Let's be honest; not everybody has a powerful computer or has good internet. Sometimes, when a player tries to connect to the server, even with all workshop content installed, they get timed out, requiring them to reconnect more than once, which is inconvenient. It would be cool to have FastDL and gluapack for faster server loading times.

[Pendred]

i think you're just throwing out buzzwords without actually knowing that they mean

[Danny the Sniper]

I'm confused. What buzzwords? I mean, I'm suggesting faster server loading times with the help of addons like FastDL and gluapack.

[Bookie]

18 minutes ago, Danny the Sniper said:

Let's be honest; not everybody has a powerful computer or has good internet.

Maybe just dont be broke.

 

Back in my day it took me 2 hours to connect to gmod servers on my Acer Laptop and i still thugged it out

[Hoovis]

bro what year do you think it is that we still need fastdl

steam workshop downloads files through steam automatically which is quicker than fastDLL or gluapack could ever hope to be
the server runs on x86-64 allowing for a much larger memory address range than the usual 4gb which prevents your client overloading during connection

it is 2026. we are playing a game on an engine released in 2004. that is 22 YEARS AGO. If you struggle to connect then you either have bad internet or a very bad PC which has nothing to do with the server

look into fastDLL for me and tell me if you think downloading each file from every single addon individually rather than steam downloading the entire addon at once for you is a good idea

do you really think the server is running on gmod's throttled ass 20kb/s limit?

Edited 36 minutes ago by Hoovis