Spec's for Battlefield Server?

[QCH]

Hey, what is the minimum specs to be able to run the dedicated Battlefield Server?

I want to build a Win2003 Server and I want to be able to serve out files and an occasional game like BF...

Now all I need to do is get a nice Video card for that XP3000+ from the LAN and that will be up and running too... That will give me a XP2400+, a XP2800+, and a XP3000+ all capable of gaming... then there is the dual PIII 600 Firewall, and the aforementioned Win2003 Server...

[KingFish]

Any of those procs will handle the chores with adequate ram and a decent mobo. You need bandwidth, and lots of it. What are your plans to acquire that? If you are thinking hosting BF games from your home cable/dsl line, fuhgetaboutit.

KF

[entropy]

sorry to threadcrap - but what about a lan game? could you basically use any computer (within reason) like a 1.4 willy, 256 SDram and a GF2 mx400 ... ? or is a high end computer needed no matter what game / where it's hosted?

[Thrax]

The three biggest things (In order) for a successful game server of any type:

1. Bandwidth
2. Memory
3. GHz-class processor

[QCH]

Hey everyone...

I plan on hosting to just my house... I plan on running the Win Server2003 and leave the other three as gaming and office rigs. I want to be able to invite a few friends over to play games and not have to have any of them bring anything and not have to serve a game off any of them.

So... I need to know what "Socket A" CPU to buy for the win2003 server and if I need to buy a video card and how much Memory...

I have:
ATI 7000
KG7-RAID (I have two, one is being donated to SMx)
512 MB of 2700 DDR Memory

What CPU???

[Thrax]

A mobile 2500 and 512mb of RAM will do just fine.

You could go as low as an 1800 on the CPU, too.

[QCH]

How this for a CPU

AMD 45 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, 266FSB, 512K Cache
Model: AXMH2400FQQ4C
Core: Barton
Operating Frequency: 1.8GHz
FSB: 266MHz
Cache: L1/64K+64K; L2/512K
Voltage: 1.45V
Process: 0.13Micron
Socket: Socket A

$77.00

[Thrax]

Looks just fine. :)

[TheGr81]

The guy who owns the computer that we host the games on at the local lan has dual 1 GHz PIII's and 2 gigs ram.

[QCH]

Looks loike I'm going with a AMD Mobile 2400+ from newegg..... $77.00!!!! (Thanks Thraxxxxxxxx)

[Gobbles]

processing power is the least important thing when building a game host server.

Bandwidth... is god with game servers.
Ram is gods bride
cpu...


you could run that server on a p3 1gig with lots of ram and bandwidth and it would perform like a champ.

[Thrax]

It's a LAN server, however, which significantly reduces the necessity for RAM.

[Black Hawk]

processing power is the least important thing when building a game host server.

Bandwidth... is god with game servers.
Ram is gods bride
cpu...


you could run that server on a p3 1gig with lots of ram and bandwidth and it would perform like a champ.
For a lan server but not for a internet server. For a really good 64 player server, you need 3ghz+ proc, 1-2gb of ram and a T3 or higher connection. As for a lan server, if you can run the game in sp with some bots, then you can run it as a server.