Spec's for Battlefield Server?

QCHQCH Ancient GuruChicago Area - USA Icrontian
edited June 2004 in Gaming
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...

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  • KingFishKingFish
    edited June 2004
    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
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited June 2004
    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?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    The three biggest things (In order) for a successful game server of any type:

    1. Bandwidth
    2. Memory
    3. GHz-class processor
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    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???
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    A mobile 2500 and 512mb of RAM will do just fine.

    You could go as low as an 1800 on the CPU, too.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    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
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Looks just fine. :)
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited June 2004
    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.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Looks loike I'm going with a AMD Mobile 2400+ from newegg..... $77.00!!!! (Thanks Thraxxxxxxxx)
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited June 2004
    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.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It's a LAN server, however, which significantly reduces the necessity for RAM.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Gobbles wrote:
    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.
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