New Server (EU)

[Svitjodvarg]

Well there is still LOTS of people who can't see the server on the server list.. Including me. 

[Banok]

I wish my ping would quit occasionally going to 400.

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[Vicious666]

nice job

[gazda]

changelog , or it didnt happen

[Elio]

We just got a new machine (i7-3930K, 64 GB RAM)

By curiosity, which basic configuration do you advise to mount a server of 120 players?

2 cores 2 GHz and 4 GB of RAM isn't enough?
And how much each player take in bandwidth 100, 200 kbps?

[Kafein]

Also upkeep is almost always highest possible because rounds last till the end.

Which reduces upkeep/tick. The longer the round, the more items that already broke and the less new item break and additional upkeep per tick. Battles don't last enough time for that to be really evident, but it still is true, despite the 30sec first tick.

[[ptx]]

200+ players is glorious carnage. Some lag/glitches begin to appear though, such as certain sounds and animations missing. Overall, i felt like i was playing at a latency of 80, despite having it @ 44. Still, incomparable to what a 200 people server would've been before (it would've been completely unplayable), so... holy fuck, amazing work

[dodnet]

This was SO FUCKING AMAZING. I hope the servers stay at 200 ppl 
Though on the arena map my comp was really choking with the mass of people 

[Anhy]

where is double xp? 

[cmp]

By curiosity, which basic configuration do you advise to mount a server of 120 players?

2 cores 2 GHz and 4 GB of RAM isn't enough?

You can probably get away with 2 cores and 4 GB RAM if you don't run anything else on it, but 2 GHz is way too low. To run a 120 player server smoothly enough when it's full I'd say you need an i5/i7 (or AMD equivalent) with 3.0 or more GHz.

And how much each player take in bandwidth 100, 200 kbps?

It's hard to say, it depends on the amount of agents on the battlefield.
Yesterday with 200 players (~220 agents including horses) the bandwidth used peaked at about 60mbit out of 100 (might have been higher when I didn't check). For 120 players I wouldn't go with anything lower than 30mbit.

[LordBerenger]

You most likely won't get over 130-150 players now unless you double XP and gold again

On sunday make it double XP and Gold and do it again!

[Vibe]

You most likely won't get over 130-150 players now unless you double XP and gold again

On sunday make it double XP and Gold and do it again!

Shut down other EU battle servers :3

[Beauchamp]

pump it up to 500 players!

[LordBerenger]

Shut down other EU battle servers :3

This! But then HRE and Grey would be mad cuz no siege. And Fornication or whatever their clan name will be mad there's no EU4.

[Phazey]

Had a lot of fun last night. More than 200 players on one server is crazy i tell you. Crazy! 

The large battles were very epic.  Did turn down detail to low to have a better framerate. This makes me want to buy a new pc next month (was already planning on it though).

It sucks for those that have wooden pc's though. A few people have framerates in the 20's or even lower with that many players. Perhaps a few more people will be switching to directx 7 and using the low res textures.

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Disclaimer: i haven't tested the texture packs or directx 7 myself. Use at your own risk. 

1) enable 'show framerate' in the warband launcher
2) ingame, set detail to medium

If you're still getting unplayable framerates (for me, anything below 40 fps feels 'unplayable'):
3) set detail to low instead (make sure character shadows are off and corpses are set to 0)

If that doesn't help enough:
4) use the low res texture pack: http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,5335.0.html (hasn't been updated with many of the new textures, but will still help framerate a bit probably)
And maybe:
5) cRPG-optimization: http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,6967.msg108140.html#msg108140

And if that still doesn't help enough:
6) switch to directx 7 in the warband launcher
And / or:
7) Use scarymod: http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php?topic=6968.0 (Not compatible)

That is what i could find just now with a few searches. Did i cover all the possible tweaks? Anyone actually used all these together?
Problems? Opinions on how to tweak cRPG for better performance? I made a thread here: http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,33269.0.html