With the announcement of the increase in maxplayer settings I thought I would share some things with Admins on the practical side of what it will take to run a 50 player server.
TWI will no doubt be issuing a much more informed guide but here are some things that will help out in the meantime hopefully.
Server Kit
The Wild Bunch server used for this test was a 1U Dell PE1950 running Winx32 2003 SP2
We named it ODIN as in God of War
In the box were the following.
2x Xeon 5160, (Dual-Core) 3.0GHz/1333MHz FSB 4MB cache
4GB ECC Fully Buffered DIMM memory/FB 667Mhz FBD
2x "Hot Swap" 320GB SATAII HDD
SAS 5/i: 4 port SAS controller with ARM966 processor.
2x Broadcom Nextreme II Net Cards.
These servers usually retail at about
TWI will no doubt be issuing a much more informed guide but here are some things that will help out in the meantime hopefully.
Server Kit
The Wild Bunch server used for this test was a 1U Dell PE1950 running Winx32 2003 SP2
We named it ODIN as in God of War
In the box were the following.
2x Xeon 5160, (Dual-Core) 3.0GHz/1333MHz FSB 4MB cache
4GB ECC Fully Buffered DIMM memory/FB 667Mhz FBD
2x "Hot Swap" 320GB SATAII HDD
SAS 5/i: 4 port SAS controller with ARM966 processor.
2x Broadcom Nextreme II Net Cards.
These servers usually retail at about