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Signed Up October 13, 2012
Last Posted October 26, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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#7 Need help with upgrading in Hardware

Not sure what's wrong with your motherboard, but if it's broken and still under warranty, RMA.

With some minor effort, your memory might just run at 3600Mhz (CL16 should be fine), Ryzens will like that. Staying on this motherboard and dropping in a 5800X3D will give you the highest gaming performance offered on this socket.
It will depend on the games you play and what kind of FPS you're looking for whether to upgrade the GPU as well.

posted about a year ago
#6 rahThread: Imagine ping cut by 1/10 in TF2 General Discussion

Diameter of earth: 12.756km = 12.756.000 meters
Speed of light: ~300.000.000 meters per second
Delay to anywhere if you can just point straight at it through the earth, is at most: ~42.5ms
Ping is send+receive,so 85ms is the best you can do.

Developing neutrino-based transceivers is an exercise I'll leave up to the reader.

posted about a year ago
#180 serveme.tf - free server reservations in Projects
Aelkyranyone else having issues with getting demos from serveme ? right now its broken for me (although demos.tf still works)

What doesn't work exactly?

posted about a year ago
#178 serveme.tf - free server reservations in Projects

Some more improvements....

tl;dr
Better server updates, no more select/copy/paste from chat like a caveman for the SDR connect, MOTDs with reservation info.

1. We changed the way we do server updates. Previously we checked the server version just as your reservation started, and told it to update itself if it was out of date. This was annoying for two reasons. First this meant the server had to fully shutdown and restart to get the update from steam, which can be slow due to congestion. It can also overload the machine hosting the gameservers with the disk and network getting trashed when many gameservers update at once.
Second, sometimes the gameservers took multiple restarts/updates to fully get to the latest version. So when that happened, after waiting for your reservation to launch you got greeted with the "Server is running an older version of the game" message.
So now we handle all the updates as soon as they come out. We stop making new reservations on servers that are not yet updated and start updating a few servers per machine at once. Games in progress are not disturbed and can finish their match on the old version of TF2.

2. There's now an in-game menu to switch between a direct connection and Valve's VPN connection, SDR. Type !sdr to open this menu.

3. Added MOTDs to all servers. This MOTD shows who made the reservation, its setttings and has convenient buttons to copy the connect, SDR connect and STV connect to your clipboard. If it's your reservation and you are logged in you can also control and RCON the server from this screen.

4. Fixed broken redirects after logging in. The site forgot where you were after signing in with steam, now it remembers where you were and redirects you back like it's 2011.

posted about a year ago
#177 serveme.tf - free server reservations in Projects

Just a small QoL update. A button to copy the settings of your previous reservation and make a new one. You can also right click this button and share this URL. It will only copy server config, whitelist and first map, not your rcon.

https://fakkelbrigade.eu/i/1689706927.jpg

posted about a year ago
#176 serveme.tf - free server reservations in Projects

I think the steam docs and the announcement put it quite well:

Steam Datagram Relay (SDR) is Valve's virtual private gaming network. Using our APIs, you can not only carry your game traffic over the Valve backbone that is dedicated for game content, you also gain access to our network of relays. Relaying the traffic protects your servers and players from DoS attack, because IP addresses are never revealed. All traffic you receive is authenticated, encrypted, and rate-limited. Furthermore, for a surprisingly high number of players, we can also find a faster route through our network, which actually improves player ping times.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/steamdatagramrelay

First, relaying traffic anonymizes it, protecting both gameservers and clients from denial-of-service attacks. Furthermore, because routing decisions are made dynamically by the client, if a relay becomes unavailable, clients can switch to a different relay within seconds, perhaps at a different point-of-presence if necessary. For an attacker to disrupt gameplay, they must mount an attack large enough to overwhelm multiple data centers.

Second, clients can select a route that gets off of the public Internet and onto our dedicated links as early as possible. On our backbone we can ensure that the routing is optimal, since we have peered with over 2,500 ISPs.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/1791775741704351698

I don't know if enabling SDR on the server with -enablefakeip delists them from the master server list, since we typically run "hide_server 1" on all gameservers anyway.

posted about a year ago
#174 serveme.tf - free server reservations in Projects

A small update, which could help if you experience a bad connection, poor routing or live further from the servers. All servers now support connecting through SDR (basically Valve's gaming VPN), in addition to direct connections.
So if you are on a server and have packet loss or unexpected high pings, type "!sdr" in chat to get the SDR connect info.

Just paste that in the TF2 console to connect to the same server, but this time through SDR.

As an example, this helped lower my ping to one of the Chicago servers, the first row is me on SDR, with a private SDR IP, the second row is me on a direct connection to the server:

https://fakkelbrigade.eu/i/1687541374.jpg

posted about a year ago
#42 RGL PUGs Public Alpha in Projects
cukei7.4 GB of api requests in 5 hours...? respect.

edit: its this function btw
Show Content

https://fakkelbrigade.eu/i/1686909078.jpg

There's also a queues endpoint which gets polled once a minute. It appears to return a list of all matches ever played and all the players in those matches and the pug histories of those players. While it probably just should return the current queues.

http://fakkelbrigade.eu/i/1686908740.jpg

So that's become a 1.7MiB JSON with 80k lines. It gets loaded 5 times after opening the site.

posted about a year ago
#334 Logs.tf match stats in Projects
Yoshi_Basically I want to rename each pattern like "na.serveme.tf #516006: RED vs BLU" to "TF2Pugs.com - (pug id)"

You could set "logstf_title" through RCON after your serveme.tf reservation starts.

Uploading duplicates is what TF2Center does.

posted about a year ago
#41 biggest valve fuckups in TF2 General Discussion

Changing the steam id format from STEAM_0:1:123456 to [U:1:123456] during i52.
Releasing a TF2 server update that accidentally required CPUs with AVX instructions

posted about a year ago
#5 tf2 colonies in TF2 General Discussion
Mong...you can ask arie from serveme for steam accounts associated with your ip. I accidentally did that and I found some guy in open was at my uni and I DMed him...

This IRL matchmaking is not a service I offer.

posted about a year ago
#2 Need downloads for older map versio to watch demos in Q/A Help

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posted about a year ago
#173 serveme.tf - free server reservations in Projects

Thanks to ozfortress, au.serveme.tf is back :) Starting out with 12 gameservers.

More info on how and why in these two blogposts.

posted about a year ago
#4 Displaying stats on-stream? in Videos
WiethoofdAlternatively, if you have rcon access to the server you can try setting up this Ruby on Rails live log listener...

Please don't use that. It's unmaintained and not user friendly. I just wrote it for myself because it was something interesting for VanillaTV at the time, so that's some indication of how old it is ;)

posted about a year ago
#17 Help Gragery come to I69! - SVIFT fundraiser in LAN Discussion

"If Coyo invites you to a private sexy maid session at i69, don't go"

posted about a year ago
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