alright... i'm going to be the bad guy here... in the past week or so i have noticed that the server has been running like shi t. this started about the time that the mod to show damage dealt and whatnot was installed on the server. i know that i'm not the only one to notice this. i'm guessing that the mod is what is lagging the server and causing the vast majority of players to experience fps drops and choke. i've talked with soldat and mr. about this as well as other regulars on the server. the mod really does nothing for anyone. your shots and damage dealt can be seen by going to console. i'm asking that this mod be removed at least for the time being. if the server continues to act up than it obviously wasn't the problem and can be reinstalled. please, i think that soldat is going to bring this up to all the admins but i wanted to be a pain in the as s and write my own little note. thanks and please, the sooner that mod is gone the sooner the gaming experience of everyone in the server will be enhanced

I am in favor of removing the hit counter as well. It's difficult to read and doesn't tell you how many times you hit. I've just been ignoring it and bringing up the console everytime. I have noticed that at times my fps will die, but it seems kind of random so I can't attribute it to anything.

I agree with the previous posts. The way I feel, if it isn't a headshot then why do you care where you hit them?

I still find I look at console anyways for damage reports. The report has fonts that are too small to read and is only up for a little bit so I never get a chance to read the full damage report especially if I've killed more than a couple of people since my last death. Not sure whether it's causing lag but I could imagine it does, especially during intense gunfights where lots of people are dying and requesting damage reports from the server.

Also what is the tick rate of the server? 33? If so can you ask them to upgrade to 66 or 100. We should see better bullet registry with higher tick rates.

I'll admit I'm not overly fond of it myself, and, have noticed a performance hit since it's addition. Don't know if it's the cause but the timing leads me to believe it is...

Can we try it without for a bit and see if we notice a difference?

It's hard to pin it on one thing when Disco added quite a few new features to the server at the same time. However I do think the damage report causes lag because the server then has to think of all your targets, where you hit them, and for what damage which I'm sure takes a couple of cycles and then if you have many people dying then that is magnified so the lag is especially bad when there are a lot of people on the server.

Also people should also consider defragging their hard drives. My only gripe with the damage report is not being able to read it. While others were reporting loss and choke last night, I was staying at a solid 0 for both. My frames did drop a little ~55 fps on dust and d2 but that could be due to my weak gfx card (9500pro).

Stop Whining!!

flitch go jump off a cliff and do us all a favor :D. my choke and loss are always at zero but whenever i was in a battle my fps would drop from 70's to 20's. i went into a dif server and played as smooth as ever. they have an xgs server in chicago as well. so i would think it is the hit counter or one of the many mods we have on the server that we dont need.

The damage report is an option in our current admin mod. I assumed the server is already collecting the data, and it's just an option to display the summary or not, but it could actually be calculating stuff on the fly and slowing things down.

I'm going to bet that it's not individual features of the admin mod that are causing lag, though. It could be something is wrong with the version we're running (the entire mod may have a memory leak or something), or it could be the networking issues from the fire a few weeks back. In any case, I'll turn it off this weekend and we can see if it helps (I'm out of town until then).

We miss you Disco. Come home:)

i agree... aint no partay unless dee too the bee is there..

Remove it! The sever been lagging alot lately. I was playing yesterday and my ping was 29 which is low since its normally in the 40's but it was still getting some lag. It really made me sad.

Disco is still out of town. Weep for him, for he is visiting in-laws.

I'm sure he'll get back on top of things when he returns.