Re: [LUG] My Own Observations Of Course

[Simon Avery <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

john wrote:

> > Now there's an idea (he thinks):  An Unreal Tournament LAN Party, half with
> > MS boxes half with Linux boxes, and let Linux strut its' stuff in direct
> > competition ;)  

> ping is important in these games, the better you are at them the more 
> important things like ping are (and the extra delay of using a wireless 
> mouse) which means that every linux box sending out properly configured 
> packets is going to have to compete with every windows box sending out 
> malformed "me first!" packets.

In this particular example, the linux version of Unreal Tournament (done 
by Loki) has quite broken netcode. The conversion was apparently done 
without understanding the difference between windows and linux packet 
differences and the same netspeed setting on a linux server actually 
performs *worse* than a windows' one.

It's not a problem once you know about it, as you can just increase the 
linux servers' tickrate.

--
Simon Avery

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